Ho, Aug. 2, GNA – The Ho Central branch of the Apostles Revelation Society, on Monday paid to release from the Ho Women Prison, two babies and their mothers.
The Society, which is a Church, paid a total of GH¢980 as total fines and compensation slapped by the Kpando Circuit Court on Miss Mmabena Asantewa, 20 years with seven months old baby and her cousin Belinda Otoo, 18 years also nursing a five-month old baby.
The two with their babies have spent three weeks out of the 12 months they would have spent in the Prison for their inability to pay the fines and compensation for causing harm and abetment.
Mr Gregory Amenuvegbe, Youth Chairman of the Society said the plight of the babies came to the notice of the Women’s Council of the Church when its members visited the Prisons to donate items to inmates as part of their women’s week celebration.
He said the Church, therefore, contributed money to pay the fines and the compensation in order to free them especially for the sake of their innocent babies.
Mr Amenuvegbe said the mothers would be taken through two weeks counseling before being seen of to Wusuta-Gadze, their hometown.
The two mothers said they were overwhelmed by the love shown by the Church indicating that they would not have known what the fate of their babies if they had served the full 12 months sentence.
They promised to become members of the Apostles Revelation Society despite never being enthusiastic about Church and Christianity.
A Prison Officer told newsmen that the authorities at the Ho Prisons were in the process of transferring the two mothers and their babies to the Nsawam Prisons, where there are facilities to care for their babies.
Source: GhanaWeb
