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16-year-old pupil commits suicide

The young girl named Faith Akoto, was found hanging from a rope in her room on Sunday, January 15, 2017.
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A second year Junior High School pupil has committed suicide at Sokpoe, a town near Sogakofe, in the South Tongu District of the Volta Region.

The young girl named Faith Akoto was found hanging from a rope in her room on Sunday, January 15, 2017.

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The 16-year-old girl, who lived with her grandmother, was believed to be two months pregnant, according to eyewitnesses, who indicated that the stigma associated with the pregnancy may have led her to take her life.

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Classfmonline reports that, “a friend of the deceased went to pick an item she left in the room on the said morning only to find the body of the deceased hanging from a rope tied to the ceiling.”

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Police have conveyed the body to the Sogakofe District Hospital and have begun earnest investigations into the matter.

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