Man 42 allegedly steals primary school pupil

Cape Coast, May 20, GNA - A Circuit Court in Cape Coast on Monday ordered the Prosecution to send Andrew Bosomtwe, a 42-year-old tailor, who allegedly stole a 9-year-old pupil, to the Ankaful Psychiatric Hospital for examination to ascertain his mental status. Bosomtwe, who pleaded guilty, therefore, had his sentence deferred pending the receipt of a psychiatric examination report. He is to reappear on Monday, June 9, 2008.

Prosecuting, Chief Inspector Augustine Amonoo told the Court, presided over by Mr Richard Asiedu-Badu that last Friday, Bosomtwe who hailed from Empiro, near Abura Dunkwa, abducted Vasty Abeku Baffour, a class three pupil during break time at the Methodist Primary School at Ekrofo Nkwanta Junction, near Empiro, after he had told the child he wanted to buy him a bicycle.

He said, Bosomtwe then boarded a Cape Coast bound vehicle with the boy, but Nana Akyere, a fishmonger, who was also on the vehicle, became suspicious and asked Bosomtwe whether the child was his son. Chief Inspector Amonoo said the child immediately said no, and told the woman that Bosomtwe had taken him from school with the promise of buying him a bicycle at Kotokoraba in Cape Coast. He said on reaching Kotokoraba Nana Akyere alerted GPRTU officials, who arrested Bosomtwe and later handed him over to the Domestic Violence and Victim Support Unit of the Ghana Police Service at Cape Coast. Chief Inspector Amonoo said during investigations it became apparent that Bosomtwe was mentally unstable. 20 May 08