The Domestic Voilence and Victim Support Unit of the Airport Divisional Headquarters in Accra has arrested two nannies for allegedly administering sleep-inducing drugs to their employer's two-year-old twin sons at East Legon, a suburb of Accra.

The suspects are: Francisca Boakye, 30, and a student nurse from Konongo in the Ashanti Region, and Harriet Ansah, 31, from Jasikan in the Oti Region. Both worked in the same household for eight months.

According to police, the complainant, a 41-year-old businesswoman, reported the incident to the police that she had observed unusual drowsiness and behavioural changes in her two children during September 2025.

"She subsequently took the children to the hospital for a medical check-up. Subsequent inquiries revealed that the nannies had been administering a certain substance to the children without the consent of the complainant, allegedly to make them sleep for extended hours so that they could attend to other household chores," a police statement further explained.

Police said one of the accused, Harriet Ansah, confessed to mixing substances suspected to be sleep-inducing drugs in the children's food. She claimed she inherited the practice from her colleague, Francisca Boakye.

"She also confessed to subjecting the children to other forms of abuse, including heating their hands with fire and calling them derogatory names such as chimpanzee, among others," the statement revealed.