A 13-year-old schoolgirl, Jemima Quarshie attracted a crowd of sympathisers on Tuesday at the Koforidua Central Hospital when a middle-aged woman reportedly swindled her of 10,000 cedis during one of her pre-school morning hawking.

A sobbing Jemina, a student at the AME Zion Junior Secondary School (JSS) told her sympathisers that her mother sent her with some biscuits to hawk before going to school, as she normally does when she is in the afternoon shift.

She said on reaching the nearby Evangelical Presbyterian Church premises, the middle-aged woman accosted her and asked her to accompany her to the hospital so that she could buy some of the biscuits for her patient on admission.

On reaching the casualty ward, she said the woman bought two thousand cedis worth of the biscuits and asked for a change of eight thousand cedis under the pretext that she was taking it into the ward to collect two five thousand cedi notes from the patient to bring to her.

According to Jemina, after collecting the biscuit and the amount, the woman went behind the ward and she did not see her again.

One Mr Yaw Agyare Buadu gave Jemima 10,000 cedis to replace the loss.