A married woman who pretended to be pregnant has been arrested for stealing a week-old baby from Zebilla District Hospital in the Bawku West district of the Upper East Region.
The suspect was arrested upon a tip-off from a local chief in the area.
The timely intervention from the principal staff of the hospital saved the suspect from being lynched, and she has since been transferred to Bawku and is in police custody, assisting with investigations.
According to Dr. Ayobi Abdul Rahman, the baby, has since been rescued and reunited with its distraught mother, indicating that it is safe and sound.
However, though police are concealing the identity of the suspected baby thief, it is gathered that the suspect, following societal pressure after a year of marriage without a child, had deceived her family by faking the pregnancy.
She was reported to have stolen the baby from the blind side of the mother and intended to present it as her newborn baby.
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