Time finally caught up with the 33-year-old woman who is believed to have poisoned her five children at Nyanyano in the Central Region, when the police yesterday found her in an abandoned car in Accra.
Clutching a note book in which she had diligently scripted all her frustrations, Georgina Akweley Pipson also provided an awful lot of clues to what she perceived as the demons tormenting her life.
In what looked like a collection of poems, Georgina wrote in her note book: �I was born in December 1977.�
�I am alone in this world, God why, God why,� �I don�t have a mother or father, who am I,� �Georgina with three boys and two girls.�
In her self-confined solitude when the police found her in the abandoned vehicle at a fitting shop near the Accra College of Education at Madina, Georgina was semi-conscious when she was sent to the Police Hospital for medical treatment at about 9a.m.
She wore a skirt and blouse, had a small lady�s purse and a pocket diary, in which she had chronicled the things that summed up her emotions and happenings in her mind.
�My people deserted me,� �God give me hope,� �forgive me and my children, Nana, Kwaku, Angel, Kofi, Esi.� �What a painful world. God have mercy on me and my children�, �Why, Kojo my husband,� �Kojo, I do love you and will never forget you.� Also in the purse was a piece of paper supposed to be a prescription given to her to purchase some drugs at a pharmacy at Adzirigonno near a school.
DSP Ebenezer Boryor, the Madina District Crime Officer, told the Daily Graphic at the Police Hospital that the police were informed that there was a lady lying in an abandoned vehicle at a fitting shop at the Accra College of Education.
He said the police, who suspected she might be the lady in question, called for the publication in yesterday�s edition of the Daily Graphic and found the picture to be that of the suspect. He said the woman � who looked helpless, dull, and could not talk � was conveyed to the hospital.
The Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) in charge of Outpatients Department (OPD) at the hospital, Dr Harold Agbenu, said the suspect was brought to the hospital weak and was examined. He said although she was in a stable condition, her blood pressure was a bit high, adding that �she just refused to talk�.
He said the hospital had a report that the suspect had a history of mental ailment and when the police hospital had done its bit, she would be referred to the psychiatric hospital for further examination.
�.The Story of The Husband
Mr Christian Asante says he is shocked that she could kill their children. Mr Asante, father of the five children allegedly murdered by their mother a 45 year old businessman, told the Times yesterday that he was shocked because the relationship between the children and their mother had been exceptionally good.
Reacting to the news of the tragic death of his children, he said since their divorce four years ago, his ex-wife had very often visited the children who lived with him at Gbawe, in Accra. He said although they were divorced, his ex-wife, Georgina, often visited Gbawe and sometimes cooked the meal for the household.
Mr Asante said at about 9am last Sunday, Georgina visited with some sachets of �Tampico� beverage and cakes which she gave to the children and stayed on till evening. The children were playing football in front of the house.
He paid no attention to them since he was busy with some visitors who were visiting at the time. At about 5.30pm, he came out of the living room only to find that Georgina had left with the children. His fianc�e, Joyce Ansah, 36, was busy in the kitchen. According to Mr Asante, he only began to seriously search for the children at about 7pm after seriously search for the children at about 7pm after the visitors had left, but could not find them and Georgina.
He said he stopped the search because he assumed that she might have taken the children to her place at East Legon as she sometimes did. Mr Asante said on Monday, he called Tawiah Pipsm, Georgina�s sister who lived with her at East Legon, to enquire about the children but she informed him that the children and their mother were not around.
He therefore went to Georgina�s family house at Gomoa Nyanyano in the Central region to take the children and prepare them for school the next day. Some residents there told him they saw Georgina and the children briefly. After a fruitless search for them, he returned to Sowutuom. On Tuesday morning however, he said he had a phone call from Georgina�s sister who informed him that Georgina had called her to tell her where the children were.
Tawiah therefore asked him to meet her at Nyanyano. On reaching here, they found the door to the room locked. Tawiah then peeped through the window and saw the children �sleeping� on a bed with a white cloth over them. Asante said he became alarmed and kicked the door open with his leg. To his utter dismay, the children lay supine foaming at the mouth. They were dead, arranged according to their ages.
Source: Daily Graphic/Ghana
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