A Ghanaian capital city’s Circuit Court has sentenced a resident of Chorkor in Accra, Michael Mills, to seven years imprisonment with hard labour for sodomising a teen boy, 13.

Mills pleaded guilty to a charge of defilement and was knocked with the jail term by the court, presided over by Ms Ruby Naa Akweley Quaison, on his own plea.

The court sentence also followed a plea for mitigation by Mills'counsel, Opare Danso, who prayed with the court to temper justice with mercy because his client was a first-time offender.

The facts of the case as presented by Sergeant Opoku Amiagyei, the case was reported to the police by the boy’s father.

According to him, on September 27, 2018, his son didn’t return after leaving home until the next day at 8:00am.

The teen’s father questioned him, and the boy revealed that he was camped by Mills.

“He disclosed having passed the night at the Mills person’s room and that Mills had anal intercourse with him," the father was quoted by the police as saying.

The boy further stated that Mills has been his sexual partner for some time now and that he (Mills) threatened him not to disclose his ordeal to anyone or else he would die,’’ the prosecutor said.

According to Sergeant Amiagyei, the boy’s parents confronted Mills but he denied all the allegations and went into hiding.

The parents then reported the matter to the police, leading to Mills’ arrest.