The Gomoa Nyanyano Police have arrested a 37-year-old self-styled evangelist, Frederick Darko, for allegedly sodomizing a 15-year-old boy.
The preacher man allegedly lured the victim (name withheld) under the pretence of giving him spiritual direction.
The mother of the victim, Millicent Yeboah, was told her son’s destiny had been exchanged and would need spiritual cleansing; hence the victim relocated to live with the preacher.
The minor said Frederick Darko began sodomizing him when he was 13 and threatened to kill him if he told anybody about it.
The victim said, “he [ the evangelist] would give me a direction. He said when I followed my dad to work as a little boy, a woman he was leaving me with took my glory and hid it in a pot. I told him I couldn’t do it, and he said the curse wouldn’t go if I didn’t.
“He sodomized me so many times. I can’t remember the counts. I was 13 years and now 15. I feel pains in my waist and ribs. Before he sleeps with me, he tells me we will have a direction. He warned to kill me if I ever informed my mother.”
Millicent Yeboah, the victim’s mother, has demanded justice for her son.
Meanwhile, the suspect is in custody, assisting the police in investigating the matter.
Frederick is expected to appear before the Ofaakor Circuit Court on Wednesday, 3 August 2022.