{"id":25369,"date":"2024-04-01T15:12:25","date_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:12:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=25369"},"modified":"2024-04-01T15:12:25","modified_gmt":"2024-04-01T15:12:25","slug":"us-based-ghanaian-couple-convicted-of-beating-5-yr-old-son-to-death-faces-life-imprisonment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/01\/us-based-ghanaian-couple-convicted-of-beating-5-yr-old-son-to-death-faces-life-imprisonment\/","title":{"rendered":"US-based Ghanaian Couple Convicted of Beating 5-yr-old Son to Death Faces Life Imprisonment\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Ghanaian couple living in the United States has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old boy, who was brutally beaten before leaving for Long Island.<\/p>\n<p>Emmanuel Addae and Valerie Owusu were found guilty on March 22, 2024, over three years after Owusu&#8217;s son King was discovered dead in a Brentwood, New York City, house.<\/p>\n<p>nearly three years after Owusu&#8217;s son, King, was found dead in a home in Brentwood, New York City.<\/p>\n<p>District Attorney Raymond Tierney in a press release said:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This little boy was beaten and suffered for days at the hands of these defendants, one of whom was his own mother until he unfortunately succumbed to his severe and extensive injuries.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutors claimed Owusu and Addae beat the child with &#8220;at least four different instruments&#8221; during three days in 2021, according to People. The boy&#8217;s health continued to worsen, and finally, he passed out. Prosecutors alleged that Owusu and Addae did not give King medical attention or dial 911.<\/p>\n<p>The boy was taken to a family member&#8217;s home on April 1, 2021, where Addae and Owusu left him. King was discovered dead, according to the prosecution, when the family member went back home. The child was found to have several injuries from &#8220;head to toe&#8221; as a result of the beatings.<\/p>\n<p>On May 1, Owusu and Addae are due to be sentenced; they could spend the rest of their lives behind bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gabriella Ogbu A Ghanaian couple living in the United States has been found guilty of second-degree murder in the death of their five-year-old boy, who was brutally beaten before leaving for Long Island. Emmanuel Addae and Valerie Owusu were found guilty on March 22, 2024, over three years after Owusu&#8217;s son King was discovered dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":25370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25371,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25369\/revisions\/25371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}