The Asamankese Circuit Court has sentenced a 20-year-old truck pusher, Kenneth Opoku Kwarteng to 10 years imprisonment in hard labour for having unnatural carnal knowledge of a seven-year old boy.

Kwarteng, alias "independence", who was charged with sodomy was convicted on his own plea.

Prosecuting, Detective Police Inspector Alex Osei told the crowded court that at about 7.00 a.m. on April 22, the boy went out with some friends to play at the Kade Presbyterian JSS.

He said the accused lured the boy into the bush under the pretext of plucking mangoes for him and forcibly had anal sex with him.

The visibly shocked court was told that the accused gave the boy 2,000 cedis when he started crying as a result of the pain and bleeding he suffered.

The prosecutor said some people who heard the victim's story went to the bush to look for Kwarteng, who upon seeing them took to his heels but was eventually arrested and handed over to the police.