Police, Child Rights International place bounty on man in viral video whipping toddler

Child Rights International while condemning the incident in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Bright Appiah, said the GH¢ 10,000 bounty is for information on three individuals who were seen or their voices heard in the video.

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The Ghana Police and Child Rights International have announced a GH¢2,000 and a GH¢ 10,000 reward respectively, for information to arrest a man seen in a viral video, whipping a toddler.

Child Rights International while condemning the incident in a statement signed by its Executive Director, Bright Appiah, said the GH¢ 10,000 bounty is for information on three individuals who were seen or their voices heard in the video. 

“In support of the Ghana Police Service’s effort to locate the individual, Child Rights International, through the office of the Executive Director, is publicly staking a reward claim of ¢10,000 to any individual who will be able to provide details that will lead to the location of the individual in question, the person that recorded the video and the individual seated watching the scene unfold," it said. 

“In view of the urgency associated with the matter, a reward of GHC2000 has been set aside for anyone who is able to provide credible information that could lead to the arrest of the individual and rescue of the child.

Anyone with such information should contact the police on 0243809991,” the police said on social media. 

The suspects are likely to face charges for assault and battery, particularly under section 86 (b) of the Criminal Offences Act, 1960 (Act 29). 

The Act states a person makes an assault and battery on another person, if without the other person’s consent, and with the intention of causing harm, pain, or fear, or annoyance to the other person, or of exciting the other person to anger, that person forcibly touches the other person.

2.(b) where the proper person is insensible, unconscious, or insane, or is, by reason of infancy or any other circumstance, unable to give or refuse consent, it suffices, with respect to intention, 

(i) that the touch is intended to cause harm, pain, fear or annoyance, or 

(ii) that the touch is intended to be a touch that would be likely to cause harm, pain, fear, or annoyance to, or to excite the other person’s anger, if that person were able to give or refuse consent, and were not consenting