A 30-year-old woman who allegedly inflicted cutlass wounds on the head of her eight year old son for stealing ?700 is helping the Obuasi police in their investigations.

Madam Abena Kwabena, a mother of six opened deep wounds on the head of her son, Agya Yaw, with a cutlass after he had found the ?700 she had earlier reported missing from her room.

The suspect was to use the money to pay for kerosene she had credited the previous night. Speaking to the press, Madam Kwabena said she could not trace the money in her room and when she asked her children about it, they denied stealing the money.

She said she later asked Yaw to mop some water he had poured on the floor of the room. She said Yaw refused and attempted to run away from the house. Madam Kwabena said she grabbed Yaw to prevent him from running away.

"It was at this juncture that I saw him holding some coins. I asked him to tell me how he came by the money," she said.

Madam Kwabena said Yaw struggled to free himself and in the process had some cuts from a cutlass she had been using to cut firewood.

A passer-by, Stephen Oppong who saw the boy bleeding from the wounds, gave Madam Kwabena ?5,000 to send the boy to the hospital but she refused and left the boy to his fate.

According to other eye witnesses, when Yaw's father was informed he said he did not care about what had happened to the boy.

According to them it was only when Mr Oppong returned to see the boy bleeding that he washed the blood off the boy's head and sent him to the Obuasi Central Police Station to lodge a complaint.