Missing boy’s body found without head and legs
The body of a boy, believed to be eight years old, was yesterday retrieved from an unused septic tank, with the head and the legs chopped off.
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It is believed that the body is that of a boy reported missing by his parents on Sunday, April 20, 2014.
Residents around the Ebenezer Senior High School at Dansoman, Accra, where the septic tank is located, found the body on Tuesday and raised an alarm.
Floating body
The Dansoman District Police Commander, Superintendent of Police, Mr Felix Apedo, said the police had the information about 3 p.m. last Tuesday and proceeded to the scene.
"We found the naked body that was bloated floating in a tank but it was difficult identifying it because the head was not on it,” he said.
He said the police would invite the family to identify the body and for questioning to help with investigations.
He advised parents to be more responsible in taking care of their children and also know their movements.
“Parents must not take things for granted by assuming that if the child is not at home, then he is playing or with a friend,” Mr Apedo advised.
The body has been conveyed to the Police Hospital morgue for autopsy.
Weeping mother
When the Daily Graphic visited the family house of a woman who was said to be the mother of the boy at Dansoman, a number of people, including children, had gathered there to empathise with her.
While some were wailing, others tried to console the woman, who could not control herself while she held on to a baby.
The woman, Madam Merley Quao, 27, said her son, Joseph Quao, alias Nana Yaw, a pupil of the St Paul’s Primary School at Dansoman, was last seen on Sunday evening in a pair of jeans trousers.
She said on Sunday morning, Nana Yaw went to church and returned home to have lunch, after which he played with other children in the compound house.
However, the boy complained of hunger later.
“While we were preparing to take our bath, he asked for money to buy mangoes. But after that l did not see him again and l thought he was playing with the other children,” she added.
Search for missing son
Madam Quao said she became worried when it was going to rain and her son was nowhere to be found.
“So we started searching for him and other residents and family members joined the search party and even when it was raining, we were out there looking for him,” she said.
She said on Monday, she, together with the boy’s father, Mr Kwadwo Boabeng, who lives at Bawjiase in the Central Region, went to the Dansoman Police Station to file a report of their missing son.
At the police station, they were directed to verify from other police stations if a missing boy had been found and sent there.