Custodial dad beats, "roasts" 9-year-old son for "stealing" a piece of fruit (Sowutuom, Ghana)

The cultural details may differ, but the basics of the story are essentially the same whether you're in Ghana or Georgia.

A custodial dad, WOFA YAW BANAHENE, takes the child away from his mother, only to abuse and mistreat him. I think we're pretty safe in assuming he also abused the mother, and that taking her child was just another way to hurt her.

Now Dad is wanted for beating his 9-year-old son and then laying him on a coal pot with fire, for "stealing" a mango. Yes, he really wanted custody so he could be a loving daddy, didn't he?

http://news.myjoyonline.com/news/201005/46410.asp

Man roasts son

Last Updated: Wednesday, 19 May 2010, 14:47 GMT

The Sowutuom Police is looking for a 36-year-old man who allegedly laid his nine-year-old son on a coal pot with fire, for stealing a mango.

The man, whose name was given as Wofa Yaw Banahene, a labourer, has since the incidence which happened on May 2, 2010, not returned to the said house after the matter was reported to the police.

According to a source, the boy, Jeff Banahene, took the mango which belonged to his step-mother without her permission.

The source said the step-mother, a petty trader at the Agbogbloshie Market, who was not happy about what the boy did, reported the matter to the father when he arrived from work.

The source said the father, upon hearing the news, beat up the child mercilessly and laid the child on a coal pot with fire which the step-mother had used to prepare their evening meal.

The source said Wofa Banahene, after taking custody of the child from his mother, always maltreated the boy at the least provocation.

The source maintained that a Good Samaritan in the area however took the child to a nearby clinic for medical attention whiles a report was also lodged at the Sowutuom Police Station.

A source at the Sowutoum Police Station who confirmed the story said Wofa Yaw Banahene, since the act, has not been seen.

"We are doing our best to fish him out and we would appeal to the police to help us get him to face the law," the source added.