Three teenage girls are in police custody for their alleged involvement in the death of 16-year-old Dennis Owusu Ansah, a recent Basic Education Certificate Examination (BECE) graduate who was set to start school on Thursday, November 7, 2024.
The tragic incident according to Citinews report occurred on Monday night around 7:30 p.m. in Anloga, Ashanti Region, following a dispute between Dennis and one of the girls while the trio was escorting a friend home. Eyewitnesses report that during the altercation, one of the girls pulled out a knife and stabbed Dennis in the rib, resulting in severe bleeding.
Dennis was rushed to the hospital but was pronounced dead upon arrival. His family is heartbroken, with his mother and brother expressing profound shock and grief over the loss.
“We went to Tweneboa Kodua (SHS) on Saturday, and we were told to report on Thursday. So, I beg the authorities to ensure that justice is served,” said Stella Frimpong, the deceased’s mother.
Evans Owusu Ansah, Dennis’s brother, emphasized the family’s demand for justice, stating, “What we require is that the government assist and ensure that justice is served because you can’t kill a boy just like that. For a child of 15 years, you can’t just stab someone’s child. The government must ensure the right thing is done. I am surprised a child of her age could do such a thing.”
Exclusive video from the media shows North Korea punishing two young boys by making them work hard for 12 years because they were caught watching K-dramas.
The video, which seems to be from 2022, shows two 16-year-old boys with handcuffs in front of lots of students at a stadium outside.
It also shows police officers scolding the boys for not thinking about their mistakes.
North Korea does not allow South Korean entertainment, including TV shows, to be shown in the country.
Even though it’s risky, some people are still willing to break the rules to watch K-dramas, which are really popular worldwide.
There aren’t many videos like this because North Korea doesn’t allow photos or videos of life there to be shared with the outside world.
It means that the authorities are taking stricter action against these incidents. The video has been spread in North Korea to teach people about the government’s beliefs and to tell them not to watch inappropriate videos.
The video has someone talking and saying the government’s messages over and over again. “The bad government’s culture has even reached young people,” says the speaker, talking about South Korea. “They are only 16 years old, but they have messed up their future,” it says.
The police named the boys and told everyone where they live.
In the past, kids who broke the law like this would go to special camps instead of jail, and the punishment was usually less than five years.
In 2020, Pyongyang made a law that says people can be killed for watching or sharing South Korean movies or TV shows.
A person who left their country’s side said to the BBC that they were made to watch a 22-year-old man get killed. He said the man did something wrong by listening to music from South Korea and sharing movies from there with his friend.
Sand CEO Choi Kyong-hui said that North Korea sees K-dramas and K-pop as a threat to its beliefs.
“Looking up to South Korean society too much can make the system weaker soon. ” She said this is not good because it goes against the belief in North Korea that the Kim family is very important.
North Koreans began to experience South Korean movies and music in the 2000s, when the South gave aid to the North without asking for anything in return.
Seoul stopped giving aid to North Korea in 2010 because they found out that the help was not reaching the regular people it was meant for, and it was not making North Korea behave better.
However, entertainment from South Korea kept getting to North Korea through China.
“If you’re caught watching an American drama, you might be able to bribe your way out of trouble. But if you watch a Korean drama, you could get killed,” said a North Korean defector in an interview with BBC Korean.
North Korean people love Korean dramas because they help them forget about their tough lives, a person who escaped from North Korea said.
“In North Korea, we are told that South Korea has a worse life than us, but when we watch South Korean TV shows, it seems like a totally different world. ” Another person who escaped from North Korea in her twenties said that it seems like the North Korean authorities are cautious about that.
Two high schoolstudents in Iowa (US) killed their Spanish teacher in retaliation over a poor grade she gave one of the students in her class, prosecutors said in court documents on Tuesday. The duo is being tried as adults.
For the first time since Willard Miller and Jeremy Goodale were apprehended and accused of killing their 66-year-old teacher Nohema Graber in the little hamlet of Fairfield on November 2, 2021, the new information provided insight into a potential reason.
On the afternoon of her death, Miller and Graber had a meeting at Fairfield High School to address his subpar grade in her class, according to the investigation.
Later that day, according to officials, the teacher drove her vehicle to a park where she was known to go for daily walks after school.
Graber’s brutally battered body was discovered in the park the next day, concealed behind a tarp, a wheelbarrow, and railroad ties.
Investigators think that Miller and Goodale, both 16 at the time, beat the victim to death with a baseball bat and boasted about it online.
Miller admitted to the police that he had been unhappy with the way Graber had taught Spanish and that the poor grade she had given him had hurt his GPA as a whole.
“The poor grade is believed to be the motive behind the murder of Graber which directly connects Miller,” court documents filed by Jefferson County Attorney Chauncey Moulding and Assistant Iowa Attorney General Scott Brown said.
A “roving group of masked teenagers” killed Graber and compelled Miller to dispose of the body, according to court papers. Although Miller initially claimed he had no knowledge of what had happened, he later “said he had information of everything but did not participate.”
Nohema Graber’s body was found under a tarp, wheelbarrow and railroad ties. Photo credits: AP
Less than an hour after the instructor arrived, observers saw two guys driving Graber’s vehicle out of the park. According to detectives, the two adolescent males were found walking down the same route as the vehicle, which had been abandoned at the end of a rural road.
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On Snapchat, Goodale reportedly boasted to a friend about the murder. A witness submitted images of a Snapchat discussion in which the adolescent specifically accused himself and Miller of being responsible for the murder of Graber.
However, according to Miller’s attorney Christine Branstad, four search warrants were improperly obtained. She is requesting that the court invalidate all four of them and suppress evidence from Snapchat as well as from her client’s home, statements he made to the police, and data gleaned from his phone.
On Wednesday, a judge will hear arguments to determine whether to suppress any of the evidence.
