The New Patriotic Party, and indeed all Ghanaians alike, have been baffled by revelations of how the ruling National Democratic Congress under the leadership of President Mills, has sought to drag Christianity and Men of God into their hypocritical holier than thou propaganda towards the 2012 general elections. In recent days, an abortive “Ghana in Prophesy” conference being organised by one Rev Prophet Eli Lumor and his wife, Madam Nimatu, and sponsored to the tune of GH¢40,000 by the NDC government, to sing the praises of the President and also prophesy in that regard has proved beyond all reasonable doubts the extent to which the NDC will go to portray President Mills as a Christian
Last Thursday morning, Toyrianna Smith allegedly put her three-month-old baby, Ken Blackman, Jr., into a chest-mounted BabyBjorn, and carried him around as she went shopping in suburban Chicago for several hours.
According to prosecutors, though, the baby she carried around was dead, killed after repeated beating and suffocation by Smith the night before.
The Chicago Sun-Times reports that after shopping, Smith went over to a neighbor’s house, who suspected that the baby wasn’t breathing and saw blood on the baby’s blanket. The neighbor called Harvey, Illinois police, who arrested Smith.
The 20-year-old mother reportedly confessed to punching the baby several times before suffocating him to death, because he wouldn’t stop crying, ABC-7 reports.
A story in the Northwest Indiana Times reports that Smith spent the night of the boy’s death drinking vodka with friends in Harvey. Smith lives in Calumet City, Illinois, also in Chicago’s south suburbs.
She is held on a $1 million bond, and will face a preliminary hearing for first-degree murder on July 14.
