Trader Gives Birth To Boy with 3 Heads

The people at Fa Adwen village in the West Akim District of the Eastern Region are shocked says the P& P weekly newspaper in a front-page lead headline story.

The paper reports that the villagers are still trying to unravel the circumstances that led to the birth of a baby boy with three heads. Fa Adwen village is said to be a remote village whose people rely on "Osofo Baa", an evangelist who doubles as the only certified traditional birth attendant there.

The report says on July 8, a 40-year-old farmer, Kwasi Yeboah, helped his 30-year-old wife, Abosua Kosia to the makeshift midwifery of Osofo Baa, where she t delivered a baby boy at around 2p.m., after a soul-wrenching labour.

And to the amazement of the midwife and the new mother, the baby was awesomely grotesque.

He had three heads, three disfigured mouths, two ears and one eye on one head with the other eye hidden behind the second head.

The wonder boy had one tooth while his fingers were webbed.

The rest of the body, however, looked quite normal. The P & P says due to the awesome nature of the spectacle, opinion leaders in the area are said to have decided to have the birth recorded for posterity and a photographer was sent for.

According to the paper, the mother, who already has another boy, claimed that she went through a full-term pregnancy without any hitch. "I?m doomed forever", she lamented, saying, "anything I do henceforth, people are going to use it to insult me".

The P & P says both parents felt relieved when the strange child died later in the evening. It quotes neighbours as saying the continuous existence of the boy could cause many problems for the village.