A 21-year-old school drop-out, who sodomized an 11-year-old boy at the Tarkwa Railway station, has been sentenced to 19 years’ imprisonment with hard labour by the Tarkwa Circuit Court.
The convict, Kwadwo Mumuni, who was charged with one count of defilement, pleaded guilty to the offence.
Prosecuting Detective Sergeant Dominic Appiah Kusi told the court presided over by Mrs Hathia Ama Manu that the complainant, a 29-year-old woman is the mother of the victim, who had stopped schooling.
He said Mumuni had no permanent place of abode but was often seen roaming at the Tarkwa Railway station.
The Prosecution said on November 9, 2024, around 4:30 pm, the complainant sent the victim to go and buy her charcoal from the Tarkwa Railway station.
He said after the victim had collected the money under the pretext of going to buy the charcoal, left to the market, and failed to return home, but was spotted loitering around the Tarkwa Railway station.
Detective Sergeant Kusi said the complainant searched for the victim for hours, but she could not find him.
On November 10, the next day, at 1:30 am, a witness in the case who had closed from work and was on his way home saw Mumuni having anal sex with the victim while he was asleep on the corridor of a Storey building located at the Tarkwa Railway station.
Prosecution said Mumuni on seeing the witness approaching him took to his heels, but he was chased, arrested, and handed over to the police.
The witness then called the complainant on the phone and informed her of what had happened to her son, and she quickly came to the Railway police station, where she was given a police medical form to seek treatment for the victim.
Detective Sergeant Kusi said the complainant later returned the form endorsed by a medical officer at the Apinto Government hospital in the Tarkwa Nsuaem Municipality.