A Kumasi Circuit Court presided over by Justice Emmanuel Amo-Yartey has ordered a 63-year old driver who sexually abused a seven-year old school child to be kept in prison for 10 years.

Pipim Adansi had been engaged as a bus driver of a private school in Kumasi where the victim is a pupil and denied the offence.

The court heard that the crime was committed on February 21, at about midday as the victim was on her way to lunch, when the convict, who sometimes drives the girl and her other school mates to the house, invited her to join him in the bus.

There, he asked the innocent girl to undress, sexually assaulted her and warned that she should not tell anybody about her ordeal or risk dying.

When she returned home from school, the mother detected blood stains in her underwear and became alarmed.

She questioned the victim and she told her everything about it.

The mother ran to inform the headmaster and all the seven bus drivers of the school were paraded for the girl to point out the perpetrator.

She readily identified Adansi and a formal report was made to the Police Domestic Violence Victim Support Unit (DOVVSU).

A medical report by doctors who treated the little girl confirmed that she had indeed been defiled. Her hymen had been broken and injury caused at the anus.

The girl is still undergoing treatment at the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital (KATH).

Some lawyers present in the court took turns to plead that he was given minimal sentence due to his age and his remorsefulness.**