Nkatimba Dundisi, a 45-year-old farmer, has been arrested at Funsi in the Wa East District for defiling a seven-year-old Class One.
He is alleged to have lured the girl into his room under the pretext of giving her groundnut cakes and defiled her.
The girl told police said she lived in the same vicinity with the suspect who invited her to accompany her to his room for the cakes.
On entering the room, Mr. Dundisi forcibly stripped her naked and defiled her four times.
She said after the ordeal she felt pains in her lower abdomen and therefore told her mother about the incident who reported it to the police.