A 55-year-old man, Osmanu Mumuni has been arrested by the Weija Divisional Domestic Violence and Victims Support Unit (DOVVSU) for cutting off part of the son’s ear with a blade.
Mumuni was arrested after the child’s mother lodged a complaint with the police.
She told the police that last Saturday (May 15, 2020), her ex-husband Osmanu Mumuni whom the boy stays with cut off part of the right ear of her son and also placed his fingers into an open fire after suspecting him of stealing 250 cedis at Obuom-Domeabra.
The victim, who was going through severe pains at the time of the report and had marks of assault all over his body, was sent to the Amanfro Polyclinic where he was treated and discharged.
The suspect Mumuni Osmanu upon arrest confessed to the crime but claimed the victim is stubborn.
