In the Ashanti Region’s Abuakwa Maakro, a couple’s children were discovered dead in their home. One of the children has spoken up about why they stopped eating.
The youngster claimed that they stopped eating because their parents had told them that “food was a curse.”
After being discovered unresponsive, the child Jackson and his brother were taken to the Abuakwa Polyclinic.
The two kids had reportedly regained consciousness and were in stable condition, according to Accra-based Citi News.
On July 27, 2022, when police went into their rented flat, they discovered Samuel Jackson and his wife Ernestina Jackson dead in their room.
The two youngsters were also discovered by the police in the apartment, and they were saved.
The couple’s oldest son currently appears to be very traumatised and unable to talk well.
The younger Jackson revealed to Citi News that their refusal to eat was motivated by their religious beliefs.
The youngster continued by saying that they occasionally ran out of food at home but were unable to leave their flat because they were locked inside.
“We were not eating because our parents said food was a curse. That’s because they were worried over something. Now we know it. If you want to put the curse out of the food, you have to first pray and then eat. Our parents were not eating too.”
“We run out of food for many days, and we became weak. The Police came to our house and took us to the hospital. They took my mum and dad to the other hospital and brought me and my brother here”.
According to the medical superintendent of the Abuakwa Polyclinic, Dr. Mensah Manye, when the two children, who are about 11 and 13 years respectively, were brought to the facility, they were dehydrated and very weak.
“The Police brought the two children here, who were both unconscious. The Police narrated to me that the two children had been locked in their room with their parents for some months now. The two children were lying down helpless, unconscious, so they rushed them to the hospital.
“When they came, the assessment showed they were severely dehydrated. They had grown very lean. It was only their bony frame that was showing. That shows the extent of weight loss they’ve gone through. They could not talk or walk. They couldn’t do anything. They lost a lot of fluid. We worked to resuscitate them,” he revealed.
Meanwhile, the Ghana Psychological Association (GPA) says it will offer free psycho-social services to the children.
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