The news that a young mother had poisoned her two young children sent residents of Tema New Town into a state of horror on Thursday afternoon.
The children were allegedly killed by the mother, who is claimed to have used rat poison that she purchased from a market.
The children, ages two and one, died peacefully in their sleep immediately after being given the mixture.
In a statement to Adom News, a neighbor who only identified himself as Eric said the lady confessed after she committed the horrendous act.
“After she had killed the children, the lady rushed out of the room to tell us what she had done,” he remarked afterward.
According to Eric, her actions did not come as a surprise to him, because she had previously stated that she intended to poison the children because they were a burden on her.
“She always told us about plans to poison the children, but we did not take it seriously because she is mentally stable,” he explained.
Residents of Tema New Town, according to Eric, would have lynched the young woman if it had not been for the intervention of the police.
In the meantime, the corpses of the deceased have been placed in the morgue, and the suspect has been taken into custody by the police.
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