{"id":3405,"date":"2019-04-26T17:48:27","date_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:48:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?p=3405"},"modified":"2019-04-26T17:48:38","modified_gmt":"2019-04-26T17:48:38","slug":"takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/","title":{"rendered":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The Gender court in Sekondi in the Western region has sentenced a convicted baby thief to five years in prison with hard labour.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rose Mawusi Fiaku,&nbsp;42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle in the Western region.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Her ladyship, Abena Akyen Doku, presided over the case and\u00a0handed down her sentence after a hospital result demanded by the court during the last court hearing showed the convict was\u00a0not mentally sound as claimed by mother of the convict.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She had pleaded guilty to the offence. Rose who co-habited with Lawson Lartey, 33 years old, was&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2019\/March-27th\/suspected-takoradi-baby-thief-was-trying-to-impress-boyfriend-lawyer.php\">trying to show proof of the results of her pregnancy to her concubine.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>She combed through the market on Friday, March 22, 2019 and stole the baby of a market woman there.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Market Circle in Takoradi was thrown into a frenzy over another story of a missing child, as the city is still hurting from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/02\/04\/bringbackourtaadigirls-taadi-holds-vigil-for-missing-3\/\">kidnapping of three teenagers<\/a> last year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It was a CCTV fixed to the office of the Ghana Home Loans company that would capture the slim, fair and fairly short woman walking off with the baby hooked over her right hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/news\/2019\/March-26th\/takoradi-missing-one-year-old-boy-found.php\">Rose Mawusi Fiaku was arrested<\/a>&nbsp;Tuesday dawn March 26, 2019 with Lawson Lartey who was also&nbsp;charged with abetment of crime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lawson Lartey has been granted bail and is to re-appear in court April 29, 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>credit: myjoyonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The Gender court in Sekondi in the Western region has sentenced a convicted baby thief to five years in prison with hard labour. Rose Mawusi <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\" title=\"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3406,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[15],"tags":[75],"class_list":["post-3405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro-news","tag-crime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Apt News Ghana\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/takoradi-baby-thief.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"581\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"400\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Editor\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Editor\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/26a4fa2e1ccac2c31f11b3186d0240fa\"},\"headline\":\"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization\"},\"keywords\":[\"crime\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Metro News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\",\"name\":\"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00\",\"description\":\"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/\",\"name\":\"Apt News Ghana\",\"description\":\"Your Coverage\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Apt News Ghana\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aptnewsghana-logo-1-e1546185192805.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aptnewsghana-logo-1-e1546185192805.png\",\"width\":320,\"height\":107,\"caption\":\"Apt News Ghana\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/26a4fa2e1ccac2c31f11b3186d0240fa\",\"name\":\"Editor\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf711d428bc8613649773651afe632ce7b73d253d98f0e9ed26da056197e99b5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf711d428bc8613649773651afe632ce7b73d253d98f0e9ed26da056197e99b5?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Editor\"},\"description\":\"Joe Bright Nyarko Journalist\/Communication Researcher. Environment &amp; Sustainability Advocate. Managing Editor of aptnewsghana.com, a non-profit news portal with bias towards environment and sustainability issues, rural development policies and gender &amp; inequality.\",\"sameAs\":[\"Joe Bright\"],\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/author\/aptnewsghana_dm662qsx\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana","description":"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana","og_description":"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle","og_url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/","og_site_name":"Apt News Ghana","article_published_time":"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00","article_modified_time":"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00","og_image":[{"width":581,"height":400,"url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/takoradi-baby-thief.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Editor","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Editor","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/"},"author":{"name":"Editor","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/26a4fa2e1ccac2c31f11b3186d0240fa"},"headline":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs","datePublished":"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/"},"wordCount":239,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization"},"keywords":["crime"],"articleSection":["Metro News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/","name":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs - Apt News Ghana","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2019-04-26T17:48:27+00:00","dateModified":"2019-04-26T17:48:38+00:00","description":"Rose Mawusi Fiaku, 42, was found guilty of stealing one-year-old baby Francis Mawusi Ahiabenu at the Takoradi Market Circle","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/2019\/04\/26\/takoradi-baby-thief-jailed-5-yrs\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Takoradi baby thief jailed 5 yrs"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/","name":"Apt News Ghana","description":"Your Coverage","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#organization","name":"Apt News Ghana","url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aptnewsghana-logo-1-e1546185192805.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/aptnewsghana-logo-1-e1546185192805.png","width":320,"height":107,"caption":"Apt News Ghana"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/26a4fa2e1ccac2c31f11b3186d0240fa","name":"Editor","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf711d428bc8613649773651afe632ce7b73d253d98f0e9ed26da056197e99b5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/bf711d428bc8613649773651afe632ce7b73d253d98f0e9ed26da056197e99b5?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Editor"},"description":"Joe Bright Nyarko Journalist\/Communication Researcher. Environment &amp; Sustainability Advocate. Managing Editor of aptnewsghana.com, a non-profit news portal with bias towards environment and sustainability issues, rural development policies and gender &amp; inequality.","sameAs":["Joe Bright"],"url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/author\/aptnewsghana_dm662qsx\/"}]}},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/takoradi-baby-thief.jpg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9MOQw-SV","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3405"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3405\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3406"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aptnewsghana.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}