It is emerging that a couple currently on remand in prison custody in the Ashanti Region for burning the fingers of a two-year-old boy actually molested a four-year-old boy several years ago.

Nana Oti and Rita Oti are accused of serially molesting a young boy they were supposed to give care to, until the boy absconded from home.

Neighbours of the couple told Luv FM's Erastus Asare Donkor the couple allegedly hit the groin of the boy with a stick, an action which led to serious injuries to the boy.

He was admitted to the hospital and the couple arrested but later released on the plea of some residents.

According to the neighbours, the boy on his return from the hospital absconded from the house and has since not been seen.

The latest account comes just a day before the couple makes a return to the court to answer charges of abuse against another two-year-old boy who has now lost all his fingers, thanks to their own expression of discipline. 

The couple is accused of burning the boys fingers with a hot iron for eating out.

Doctors at the Komfo Anokye Hospital could not save the three remaining fingers of the little one and decided to conduct a surgery to cut all the remaining fingers in order to save his arm.

The boy whose name has been withheld, was handed over to the couple by his father who is living in Nigeria.

He had ordered the biological mother to hand over the boy to the couple, whom he had worked for prior to his departure to Nigeria.

The Social Welfare Department in the Ashanti Region says the mother of the boy is inconsolable.

The Ashanti Regional Director of the Department, Benjamin Otoo said they have engaged the services of a psychologist to counsel the distraught mother

"The trauma she is going through is so difficult for her to come to terms with the condition of her baby," he said.

Mr Otoo reported the mother of the boy as saying she had no choice but to hand over her boy to the care givers after she was hounded to do so by the husband.

Mr Otoo is praying the law will take its course.