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New York-based Ghanaian couple convicted of murder of 5-year-old son

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  • The Truth 1 month ago

    May He rest in perfect peace!

  • MANY WOMEN KILL THEIR MEN 1 month ago

    THEY'RE AKANS. NO WONDER!

  • Kali 1 month ago

    Please, stop the tribalism.

  • Yaw 1 month ago

    Wo maame tw3 kwasea

  • Kofi Sribour. 1 month ago

    You're so stupid.

  • Bobby Stones 1 month ago

    How could a mother torture her child to death? What crime did the little boy commit to warrant this cruel treatment from them? Even animals know better, may the little one rest in perfect peace.

  • Yy 1 month ago

    They're on drugs no sensible person will do that.

  • Apuuuuu!!! 1 month ago

    It shouldn't surprise you that, the small boy has a character of one of the parents. But now they see it as a character which doesn't come from any of them

  • Akan Prophecies 1 month ago

    THERE IS SOMETHING WRONG WITH THIS STORY. THE NARRATIVE IS TO TECHNICAL WHICH LACK ABSOLUTE TRUTH. A COUPLE BEATING A FIVE YEAR OLD CHILD TO DEATH, WITHOUT REGRET ? SENDING HIM TO A FAMILY FRIEND. WHY ? THIS IS MORE THAN FIC ...
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  • Kwabena 1 month ago

    They are on drugs, simple

  • judischrislam 1 month ago

    I checked and it is true.
    Look my friend, American protect their children and their dogs. Period.
    In the US if you do want your child, just turn the child to social services and the child born from foreign parents are qui ...
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  • Maamie Abena 1 month ago

    ALL ASANTES ARE SUBHUMAN SAVAGES!

  • Core 2 weeks ago

    Close down your witches camp and trokosi

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  • A pastor might have declared him possessed 1 month ago

    A Ghanaian pastor my have instigated the couples to eliminate him because he's possessed. I suspect that paaaaaa. Women and churches and sometimes they get stupid husbands to follow them. Let them rot in jail.

  • Yaw 1 month ago

    May the soul of little King rest in absolute peace. And may the two idiots who murdered this child rot in hell. I wish the American authorities could send them to spend their sentences in a GHANAIAN jail where they can actual ...
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  • Abdul 1 month ago

    Yaw, don't worry, the inmates in prisons they are going will deal with them. American prisoners don't like those who abuse children so they will deal with those cruel inhuman beings called parents.

  • THEY'RE REGARDED AS THE WORST OF THE WORST IN PRISON 1 month ago

    Anybody sent to jail for Killing children by whatever means ,sexually abusing children will suffer at the hands of other prisoners in most parts of the world. They will live in constant fear of being seriously harmed or kille ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 month ago

    Addai and owusu. Mmmm. I see.

  • Abizibay-Sabon Zongo 1 month ago

    @Ewevi, Addae is not only an Akan name i know Ewe-Ayigbe family in Atlanta whose names are Addae, they are hundred percent Voltarians, another Ewe Addae family at Lartebiorkorshie opposite Radio Gold are also ADDAE from Volta ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 1 month ago

    wao!!! guilty conscions!!!!..lol...lol If Addae were Voltarian the spelling will be different. Eg. Adjei is Ga, Agyei is Akan... Annan is Fanti, Annang is Ga. They sound the same but spelt different.

  • Selfmade KING 1 month ago

    But haven’t u seen ga with PURE ASHANTI names?

    Think for once!

    It could be those gas were named after a long Ashanti relatives etc


    Stop the ignorance

  • Nana Malik 1 month ago

    What has this got to do with tribe,primitive people.

  • BOB 1 month ago

    THEIR BEHAVIOR SHOWS THEY ARE BOTH VOLTARIANS. THEY WERE BOTH HIGH ON DRUGS TOHAVE BEATEN THIS YOUNG KID TODEATH. THEY SHOULD BOTH GET DEATH PENALTY.

  • Akan Prophecies 1 month ago

    ADDAE IS AKAN NAME. IF YOU KNOW EWE-AYIGBES WITH NAME ADDAE, THEY MIGHT HAVE CHANGED THEIR NAME BECAUSE OF KRATAA. THIS IS VERY OFTEN IN AMERICA AND EUROPE.. THERE IS NO CLAN IN VOLTA REGION WITH TRADITIONAL NAME ADDAE. SOM ...
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  • Kwabena 1 month ago

    You should not have responded to that guy. It was uncalled for. Anyway there is Mensah in every tribe.

  • Esem pii 1 month ago

    Yeah, @Ewevi! You damn idiot, when it’s convenient for you lots to travel abroad then you’re okay with Akan (Ashanti) bearing names are like Christmas presents to you. For example, my late brother in-law Jerry John Rawlin ...
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  • Esi 1 month ago

    Evil parents. Lock them up with no chance of parole.

  • Kwami - US 1 month ago

    What cruel and heartless parents? These Ashantifools are disgusting and disgraceful. Always disgracing Ghana. They are both illiterates and can’t read and comprehend or understand American laws. Not knowing the laws is not ...
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  • Oyibo 1 month ago

    You are a tribal bigot. Two teachers who thought in secondary were both Addae but were not even Akans. It is these same Asantes that have given work to your people to work as farmhands; go to Fumso. You claim to be in US, are ...
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  • Kweku Tsin 1 month ago

    It depends on whether you are a citizen or not. Caution... thought is to think.... And taught is to teach..

  • WHAT 1 month ago

    I agree with your views about tribal bigotry being bad. Unfortunately it is a very very common problem in Africa. I observed it a lot amongts Ghanaians and also amongst Nigerians. Guess what it is sadly common even amongst th ...
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  • Kwami - US 1 month ago

    @Oyibo, without my people working as farmhands at Fumsu, all your family members including yourself would have been dead of hunger. Lazy people with very dubious credentials

  • Ciz 1 month ago

    Clown....lazy people don't have what it takes to create employment for other people

  • Esem pii 1 month ago

    @Ciz! Nice comeback to that Lazy Dog called @Kwami..

  • Selfmade KING 1 month ago

    Who have to read A LAW to know murder is a crime?

    Are u a lawyer but u know law is a crime right


    U one of the most DUMBEST Ghanaians alive!!

    Even a monkey is intelligent than u, u dirty tribal son of CHEAP WHORE
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  • Kaniba 1 month ago

    Was the late K. B Asante who was the CHAIRMAN OF GA/ADANGBE ASSOCIATION an AKAN from BONO, or ASHANTE or FANTE? Please put on your THINKING CAP.

  • Kojo Yankee 1 month ago

    Dis man face look like criminal. Di woman too look like escape convict. Wickedness,Dem go suffa for prison bcuz even prisoner dere hate child abusers as criminal have children too. Dem go smell tankwa.

  • Donatus 1 month ago

    Paroleless sentencing.

  • agbedefu 1 month ago

    Murderous Akans committing murder in the US again. Most often if a Ghanaian murders abroad , irs almost 90 percent surety its an Akan. Remember Sylvester Ofori, and the man who murdered his wife, and the Ghanaian called Owu ...
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  • wo maame tw3 1 month ago

    Foolish person like you.

  • Selfmade KING 1 month ago

    And other tribes don’t commit murders in America because the other Ghanaian tribes don’t travel but are in Ghana fighting over few Ghanaian government job!!

    U useless DOSSIER!

    U have an IQ LIKE SOCKS tweaaa


    @ag ...
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  • Ewvevi 1 month ago

    Indeed, the numerous akans abroad are seriously engaged in cleaning the anus of old people in homes. There are equally numerous non akans abroad but because they are not noisy and bush like your akan folks, they remain anonym ...
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  • Game Changer 1 month ago

    @Selfmade KING

    There are many none akans living in the diaspora than you think but the difference is they are well behaved and law abiding so they don't pop up in the news for all the wrong reasons unlike akans led by the ...
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  • Ciz 1 month ago

    @Game changer how come I can prove non akans not lead by Ashantis are also involved in crimes abroad?Omly a coward will sit behind a p.c and spew crap....

  • Selfmade KING 1 month ago

    Game changer

    U dumb like a SHOE lace

  • Animal Kingdom where criminals fester 1 month ago

    @Selfmade KING

    The truth hurts like never before.

    Ashantis are crime kings in Ghana and also in the diaspora without match. The next big crime is still going to come from your tribesmen. Deal with that moron!

  • Kaniba 1 month ago

    The LATE K.B. ASANTE, the former CHAIRMAN OF GA/ADANGBE ASSOCIATION was an AKAN.

  • Selfmade KING 1 month ago

    Cleaning anus is better than your stupid father cleaning donkey teeth kwasia

    Dirty ewe son of a slut


    Backward, inward looking ewe bastard

  • Emma 1 month ago

    Look at the man’s face. Wickedness personified. Evil, evil people. May God receive this poor child into his bosom.

  • It is certain the child belonged to another man 1 month ago

    The young man isn't the boys father. The just got rid of the little one. The lady is the devil here.

  • Kwami - US 1 month ago

    What crimes had the child committed if the man isn’t his father? Even if the mother doesn’t know who the boy’s father is do they have to kill him? What a horrible and heinous crime? Both are going to spend the rest of t ...
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  • Where is the Real father? 1 month ago

    Looks like they just wanted to get rid of the kid and start life afresh. If you're a man and your ex-wife or girlfriend is spending time with another man just get that child to your mother or another elderly relative you trus ...
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  • Me - Me 1 month ago

    It is strange. I don't think the man is his father. Is it a case of woman eliminating her son in favour of his wicked man? So sad!!! May the boy's soul rest in peace.

  • Reality 1 month ago

    Owusu is a divorcee who has a 5 year old with her previous husband. She acted in that manner because she hated her previous husband and took our her frustrations on the poor boy. As for Addai he was acting on the instructions ...
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  • Koo 1 month ago

    Let them rot in jail for good.

  • Joy 1 month ago

    Really? Couples? Unbelievable

  • Buga 1 month ago

    Ghanaians and their evil ways.their brain is a play ground for the devil.rip young man

  • Fools 1 month ago

    2 unmaured parents.. some couples are somewhere struggling to get even a child after so many years in marriage but no get. They should go for live kraaa

  • Jah Tool 1 month ago

    May these foolish murderers know no peace for the rest of their life's. Witch and wizard

  • No way!! 1 month ago

    Evilly minds!!! If a man doesn't like your child....do not stay with him.. Run!!!!!!!!!

  • Kwasi 1 month ago

    Just give them life and be done with them

  • Mike 1 month ago

    These two are on drugs. Spoilt brats.

  • GHANANTI 1 month ago

    Sad, sad, sad.

  • Sam 1 month ago

    They weren't ready to have a child...

  • R.Baidoo 1 month ago

    Evil mother you go see something in jail.

  • Don 1 month ago

    I am begging the court should jail them to LIFE IMPRISONMENT if possible executes them for treating the poor boy with hate.

  • Akan Prophecies 1 month ago

    WHY DO MOST GHANAIANS ALWAYS SPEAK AND INSULT OTHERS ON ANY INFORMATION. YOU GUYS BEHAVE LIKE THE PLEBIANS OF ANCIENT ROME . ALWAYS READY TO ACCEPT FABRICATED INFORMATION FROM YOUR MASTERS . HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY H ...
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  • afriyie 1 month ago

    nonsense comment. A child is dead and you are here defending nonsense. Idiot

  • Year of Potholes 1 month ago

    Sad!

  • Andrews Owusu Fordjour 1 month ago

    They are demon possessed.

  • Killer 1 month ago

    Ahhh Ashanti’s again ,

  • AZ 1 month ago

    Wo mame twem

  • Leaven’s Mensah 1 month ago

    Always the fools want to say something. Instead of the wise people always have something to comment on the issues, see them showing their ignorance.

  • Elephant Farmer 1 month ago

    Now you were able to enjoy a short time in the United States of America, and you remember where you came from, doing this. Breakfast in America is much better than Kinkey. ADDADE HOUSE. You were not even married. 5 years old ...
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  • Magog 1 month ago

    this is what you go to America for

  • Rex 1 month ago

    I suspect that innocent child might be accused of being primitive spiritual canker "a witch" destroying their life. If not, how can any sane Ghanaians can be hatred possess?

  • Dan 1 month ago

    Shame on you guys, an innocent child is murdered and what has that to do with the tribal card you're playing?

  • Mr Ibu 1 month ago

    You see their Chinese like round round faces, their hands and legs are also short short that same way. This particular tribe keeps on disgracing Ghana home and abroad. Rape, drugs, murder, sakawa, corruption, double passport, ...
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  • Dee 1 month ago

    Ghanaians paaaa....too bad

  • Freddy 1 month ago

    All they deserve is the death penalty. Nothing more

  • Richard Kelfa-Caulker 1 month ago

    I strongly suspect that their motive was a religious belief contaminated by superstion. They might have been led to believe that their child was a witch that was bringing them bad luck.

  • kwas 1 month ago

    Well they will certainly meet their maker. The prisoners will expedite that process for then

  • Passer by 1 month ago

    Marrying a single mother comes with a lot of trouble.
    Do you think the children will be beaten like that if the husband was his father?

  • Nana 1 month ago

    Mother and father plan to kill their son is 85 percent impossible ,kindly investigate properly thanks

  • Kwame Ntrom 1 month ago

    Deport them to their corrupt and lawless Ghana after completing their prison sentence and ban them from coming back to the USA and all developed countries.

  • Shell 1 month ago

    Are you people SERIOUSLY arguing over the name, tribe, etc??? This baby lost his life! I can't imagine the terror he must have felt. RIP. And those arguing.... grow TF up