Do you remember Shirley Frimpong Manso’s recent movie-POTOMANTO in which she looked at the issue of organ harvesting by certain affluent people in our societies? If you missed my review of the movie, Click Here to READ it…
If you thought organ harvesting was alien to our society and the movie had no basis or of societal interest, then you were WRONG. According to reports, two Americans (couple) have been sentenced to 3 years in Jail in Qatar over the death of a young girl they adopted from Ghana. The couple were accused of fatally starving their daughter Gloria, originally from Ghana, so that they could harvest her organs…
All I am saying is, the issue of organ harvesting is not foreign to our settings—not that the couple actually did that as accused…
You Can Click Here to Watch POTOMANTO
According to BBC;
A court in Qatar has sentenced an American couple to three years in prison over the death of their eight-year-old adopted daughter.
The judge did not specify the exact charges of which they were convicted.
But prosecutors had accused Matthew and Grace Huang of fatally starving their daughter Gloria, originally from Ghana, so that they could harvest her organs.
The couple said it was “ridiculous” and that Gloria died from complications related to an eating disorder.