By Kent Mensah

An Accra Circuit Tribunal last Friday convicted a teacher, Adolph Kualor, 33, of the Light Academy in Adenta for sodomising a nine year-old boy.

The Court presided over by Mr. Imoru Ziblim slapped him with a jail sentence of seven years in prison with hard labour. He however pleaded not guilty to the charge.

The small tribunal, which has just a few pews to accommodate the public, was choked. A lot of people had to stand on the staircase leading to the courtroom to listen to the verdict. After judgement was pronounced a few hours to midday the victors took over the premises and raised their handkerchiefs with songs of praise.

The prosecutor Police Inspector Emmanuel T. Boison told the court that on 26th, June 2000 at about two in the afternoon, the convict lured the victim to a 'dungeon' under the school staircase and forcibly had sex with him through the anus.

The court further heard that after the act the convict told the victim that if he disclosed it to anyone he would beat him and cause his dismissal.

Four days afterwards, the prosecutor continued, the boy reported to his mother that he had pain in the anus when urinating. He then disclosed what the teacher had done to him to his mother.

She was issued with a medical report after making a report to the police.