Asamankese, Feb 16, GNA - Ernest Dompreh, 22-year-old gold digger, was on Wednesday arraigned before the Asamankese Circuit Court charged with sodomizing a seven-year-old boy.

He pleaded guilty to having had sexual intercourse with the boy throug= h the anus and was remanded in prison custody till February 21. But Dompreh told the police in a caution statement that he initially saw the boy as a mature female only to realize after the act that the victi= m was a young boy. Police Inspector Stephen Atsu, prosecuting, told the court presided over by Mr D. E. K Darketse, that both the complainant and the accused were gold diggers who lived at Osenase and Akanteng respectively. He said the victim, a class one pupil, lived with the mother at Akanteng.

The prosecutor said on February 04 at about 1530 hours, the boy after close from school went out with friends to play. In the course of playing, Dompreh called and sent him to buy him a sachet of 93pure water". The prosecutor said after the boy's return with the water, Dompreh invited him to his room where he later undressed him, smeared his sex organ with cocoa butter lotion and forcibly had sexual intercourse with him through the anus.

The victim after the act went and narrated the ordeal to his friend wh= o was waiting for him outside. Both boys quickly rushed home to inform the victim's mother. The boy's father who was then at work, on hearing of the incident rushed home and with the assistance of friends arrested the accused and handed him over to the police.