A 76-year-old woman, Afia Sarpomaa, has been killed by her daughter at Abuakwa Asenemaso in the Atwima Nwabiagya South District of the Ashanti Region over witchcraft accusation.
According to reports, the assailant stormed the mother’s room in the morning of Monday, June 17, 2024, and accused her of bewitching the family, and began to stab her, killing her in the process.
The suspect, who has been identified as Joyce Boateng, according to reports, accused the mother of witchcraft because her pastor told her the mother is behind the family’s predicament.
The head of the lady’s family, Abusuapanin George Badu Gyan, speaking to Akoma FM’s Kwame Yeboah indicated that the woman, after killing her mother, attempted taking her own life when residents of the community stopped her.
“The information I received is that she killed her mother at the time nobody was at home. So some people saw her going to the cemetery with her dress stained with blood. So they thought she wanted to kill herself. So on her way, she picked one drug from an agro-chemical shop and the opened it. One of my nephews kicked it from her hand because everyone thought she was attempting to kill herself.
“They rushed her to the police station and when we followed up later, she said two pastors, a male and female, have told her the mother was a witch and that’s why she killed her. She doesn’t have any mental problem. She has three daughters,” the Abusuapanin narrated.
The Assembly Member of Asenemaso electoral area, Isaac Badu Boateng, in his account disclosed that they accompanied the police to deposit the remains of the woman at the mortuary after the suspect led them to where she attempted taking the poison to take her own life.
“I went to the police station after being informed of the incident about 6am. They said she drank poison so she had to be taken to the hospital. So went to the police to where she took in the medicine. We went to the cemetery and the police have now taken the body to the mortuary.
“A lady has killed her mother. She confessed to the crime when we went to the police station. The girl is 55 years,” he stated.
He also pleaded with the media to advise the pastors who disintegrate families by accusing others of witchcraft to incite their relatives against them.
“Most women now appear to trust their pastors more than their husbands and relatives. According to this girl, it was a pastor who told her that her mother is a witch. You the media should educate some of the pastors because he polluted her mind to kill her mother,” he advised.
Meanwhile the police at Abuakwa have apprehended the suspect while the deceased has been taken to the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital mortuary for autopsy and preservation.
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