The Mpraeso Circuit Court in the Kwahu South Municipality of the Eastern Region has sentenced a 23-year-old barber Kwame Amponsah to 114 years imprisonment with hard labour for allegedly sodomizing 12 Schoolboys.
The suspect as gathered allegedly committed the crime at Atawase, a suburb of Nkawkaw in the Kwahu West Municipality.
The convict who pleaded guilty is expected to serve 10 years each for the 10 kids he sodomized and serve seven years each for the other two boys.
The Head of Kwahu West Social Welfare Department, Victor Faye, who confirmed the incident on Agoo FM, Nkawkaw based radio explained that on the 5th of November 2021, officers went to the field after they had information that a young man in the community who is a barber was sexually abusing school children.
According to Faye, with the help of the Assembly Members and Opinion Leaders, Amponsah was arrested.
Mr. Fayi added that ten other pupils came to report the same issue after the arrest of Amponsah and he was paraded before the law court.
BY Daniel Bampoe