Two nannies have been arrested by the Airport Divisional Police Command for allegedly administering sleep-inducing medication and torturing their employer’s two-year-old twin sons at East Legon, Accra.
The suspects, Francisca Boakye, a 30-year-old student nurse from Konongo in the Ashanti Region, and Harriet Ansah, 31, from Jasikan in the Volta Region, have reportedly confessed to other forms of physical and emotional abuse against the toddlers.
At a press briefing in Accra, Superintendent Juliana Obeng, Head of the Public Affairs Unit of the Accra Regional Police Command, said the nannies allegedly burnt the children’s hands with fire and repeatedly called them derogatory names, including “chimpanzee,” over the past eight months while in their employer’s service.
She said the case came to light after the children’s mother, a 41-year-old businesswoman, noticed strange signs in September 2025.
A subsequent police search of the suspects’ room uncovered two used and four unused trays of sachet-pack substances believed to have been used to drug the children.
“She observed unusual drowsiness and behavioural changes in her two children,” Supt. Obeng said. “Subsequent inquiries revealed that the nannies had been administering a medication suspected to be ‘Dynewell’ to the children without her consent, allegedly making them sleep for extended hours so they could attend to other house chores,” she disclosed.
The two accused have since been cautioned, charged, and remanded by the court to reappear on October 20, 2025.
Supt. Obeng also cautioned parents and guardians to be more vigilant in supervising domestic staff and condemned the “inhumane acts” meted out to the children.
