The Ashanti Regional Office of the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ), has expressed concern about the way and manner the Police is handling a case involving a 37-year-old woman who allegedly subjected a six-year-old boy to torture. According to the Senior Principal Investigator of the CHRAJ in the region, Joseph Maxwell Appiagyei, the Commission itself conducted investigations into the case and officially handed it to the Domestic and Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU), but for almost three months the Police have relegated the matter to the background. He indicated that the hospital bill of the boy, Raymond Nampala, was still outstanding and wondered why the Police had not asked the suspect to pay it, adding that, the boy is now in the custody of the Children's Home in Kumasi. The suspect, Benedicta Dagbari, a staff of the Crop Research Institute in Kumasi, on February 9, this year, was arrested by the DOVVSU for allegedly hitting Raymond with a hammer, and left the poor boy at home after the incident. Some good Samaritans later took the child to the hospital for treatment. The boy was said to have delivered a note from his class teacher to Benedicta, who is an aunt and guardian. My teacher gave me a small sheet to be given to my aunt at the house for her to fill her particulars for me to send back to school the next day. After giving it to her, she started whipping me with a club. She stopped and went away, but after a few minutes she came back with a hammer which she used to hit me several times on parts of my body, saying "I will kill you", the boy is reported to have said. According to the little boy who is a pupil at the Appiadu R/C Primary school, his aunt then took him outside the house and abandoned him. It was at that juncture that, he said, some two elderly people who heard his cries rushed him to the hospital after which they made a report to the Police who arrested the woman on February 10, and placed her in police custody, but was granted bail. According to Dr. Yaw Bio, the Medical Officer of the KNUST hospital, where the boy is on admission, the victim sustained serious injuries and has developed a fracture on his left arm. The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the DOVVSU, Police Deputy Superintendent (DSP) Kwaku Amoako, said his outfit had completed its work and handed the docket to the Court Unit of the Police for prosecution. Source: The Ghanaian Times