A care worker who secured a job in England using false identity documents fled to Ghana after a 14-year-old girl died while under his supervision, according to telegraph.co.uk report.

The man, known at the time as Ebo Acheampong, was employed at Huntercombe Hospital in Taplow, Berkshire, through an agency, although his name and identification were allegedly fake.

He had been tasked with providing round-the-clock, one-to-one supervision for teenager Ruth Szymankiewicz, who was receiving treatment for an eating disorder.

According to a Buckinghamshire Coroner's Court documents, Ruth had been placed under strict monitoring after a self-harm incident just 10 days earlier.

However, on February 12, 2022, Acheampong failed to follow the constant supervision plan.

According to the report, Coroner Ian Wade KC said the care worker ended his shift around 8 P.M. without knowing Ruth's whereabouts or handing her over to another staff member.

She was left unsupervised for 15 minutes, during which she asphyxiated herself.

"You will not hear from that man, and he let Ruth down, " the coroner is reported to have told jurors.

Shortly after the incident, Acheampong disappeared from the hospital and never returned.

Police later discovered that he had boarded a flight from Heathrow Airport to Ghana and had not been seen since.

A post-mortem examination determined Ruth's preliminary cause of death to be hypoxic ischemic encephalopathy, brain damage caused by a lack of oxygen.

The court also heard that the Care Quality Commission (CQC) had carried out two inspections of Huntercombe Hospital prior to the incident, both of which identified concerns about its operations.

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At the time of Ruth's death, the facility was operated by Active Care Group, which has since closed the hospital.

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