23-year-old Kwame Amponsah who is a barber has been sentenced to 114 years in prison by Mpraeso Circuit Court in Ghana for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipal Assembly.
Victor Fayi, the head of Kwahu West Social Welfare Department, said the incident came to light on 5th of November 2021 after officers who went for a field work were informed that a barber in the community has been sexually abusing school children.
Following the information received the police with the help of an Assembly member and opinion leaders, got the suspect arrested.
Fayi said;
“From there we had to take him to DOVVSU which is part of the Ghana Police Service so interrogation started and the guy was remanded for seven days”.
It was gathered that ten pupils testified against him and he confessed to the crime.
He was further charged to court for sodomizing 10 boys which he pleaded guilty to. The preceding judge sentenced him to 100 years in prison with 10 years for each of the children.
After evidence of sodomization of two other boys were obtained and brought to court, the convict pleaded guilty again and pleaded for forgiveness. The judge however reduced his sentence for the two to 7 years each, making it a total of 114 years prison sentence.
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