Tag Archives: ABUSE

A man was handed a 10-year jail sentence after he was found guilty of holding a six-week-old baby against the dry ice in his refrigerator. Two years of the sentence was suspended for five years by the Pretoria High Court. According to lobby group AfriForum, Judge Mokhine Mosopa handed down …

Eight years after their marriage was officially dissolved by the Accra High Court, Henrietta, the ex-wife of legendary Ghanaian footballer John Mensah, has opened up happenings within their marriage and the aftermath. Henrietta in an interview with Kasapa FM monitored by GhanaWeb alleged infidelity on the part of the former Black …

It would not be the first, second, or even the third time that national attention has been drawn to a case of a political appointee – or an elected political office holder – for going head to head with the law in a way that makes them appear to be …

At least 10,000 civilians have died in Nigerian military custody since 2011, a report by Amnesty International (AI) indicates. The civilians were being detained in connection with the Boko Haram insurgency in Borno, Adamawa and Yobe states in northeast region. According to Amnesty International many of the deaths were recorded …

A woman is accused of brutally whipping a two-year-old boy after he broke a credit card and phone case. Pictures of the shocking injuries inflicted on the boy were shared widely on social media, prompting the country’s interior minister Eduardo del Castillo to call for a full investigation. The incident …

The World Health Organization (WHO) has pledged to investigate allegations that aid workers tackling the Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo sexually abused and exploited women. WHO and other aid agency staff were accused by 50 women in a joint investigation by two news agencies. Local women were …

Television host, Master of Ceremony and Voice-over artiste, Yaa Yeboah, has shared some reasons why some men mete out physical abuse on their wives or girlfriends. Discussing ‘Physical abuse in relationships’ in an interview with Mercy Bee on Girl Vibes which airs on eTV Ghana, she defined the act physical …

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Tano North Constituency, Mrs Freda Akosua Prempeh, has condemned the abuse of a six-year-old boy at Manhea in the Ga West Municipal District in the Greater Accra region. According to the legislator, the act was simply an act of wizardry because there are other …

An unemployed man who allegedly dragged a 12-year old girl into an uncompleted building at New Legon and sexually abused her has been put before an Accra Circuit Court. Nana Frimpong Akles, charged with defilement, had his plea reserved by the court. The court presided over by Mrs Rita Abrokwah-Doko …