Kumasi, Aug 18, GNA - A 21-year-old unemployed has been sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment in hard labour by a Kumasi circuit court for defiling two girls in turns.

Kofi Owusu, who pleaded guilty to the charges, was convicted on his own plea and was given a six-year jail term for the act on each of the girls.

Briefing the court, presided over by Madam Wilhemina Hammond, Chief Inspector Comfort Kyei Baffour, said Owusu and the two girls all lived at Tarkwa-Maakro, a suburb of Kumasi.

She said on August 6, this year at about 2000 hours, the two girls went out to buy food and on their way, they met the accused who was already known to one of them.

The court heard that Owusu asked the girls to accompany him to a friend called Tuffour and on the way he lured them into a wooden structure, serving as his living room, where he defiled both of them.

The prosecutor said defying warnings not to disclose their experience to anybody, one of the girls told her senior sister about the incident. The sister also told their father, who lodged a report to the police. A medical examination on the girls confirmed they were defiled.