Trader jailed 10 years for sodomy

An Asamankese Circuit Court has sentenced an Accra-based trader, Kofi Boafo to 10 years' imprisonment for sodomizing two 13 year-old school boys.

Boafo, who pleaded guilty to defilement, was said to have had "unnatural carnal knowledge" of the two boys at Asikasu, near Asamankese. Police Inspector Mariama Doreya told the court that between 18 and 19 April. Boafo, who arrived at Asikasu to buy sugarcane, met the two boys and befriended them.

She said Boafo invited the boys into his room and promised to buy them a bicycle each. "He undressed them, applied pomade to their anus and his male organ before having carnal knowledge of them." The boys informed their parents about their ordeals and a complaint was lodged with the Police, the Prosecutor said.