Jealous Man Kills 6yo Daughter

Sharon · #1 ● 04-26-2013, 03:41 PM

A Sixty-Two year old man at Wa in the Upper West Region, Yelminga Dong Basinaa committed suicide after butchering his six year old daughter to death, following an altercation he had with her mother.

After heated arguments between the suspect and his wife over the latter’s alleged infidelity during the wee hours of the morning, the deceased allegedly made an attempt to kill the wife but failed and thereby killing his 6 year old daughter instead.

Detective Francis Francis Alowuse of the Wa District Police Command confirmed the incident to Joy News correspondent Rafiq Salaam.

Detective Alowuse said the suspect initially attempted committing suicide by drinking a substance to which he thought was poison but police later say was hydrogen peroxide.

Still not satisfied, the suspect pulled a knife and slashed his own throat but was over powered by his relatives and rushed to the Wa Government Hospital but was later pronounced dead.

The suspect's son said his jealous father saw his daughter run to the kitchen in the heat of the argument with her mother, and mistook her to be his wife trying to escape from him and subsequently butchered her to death.