Tema, July 07, GNA -- A forty-year-old labourer who allegedly defiled two sisters aged three and six has been remanded into custody by the Tema Circuit Court 'B' presided over by Mrs Amanda Aikins. Seidu Yahaya, who pleaded not guilty to the charge of defilement, was remanded to reappear in court on July 21. The court heard that the victims reside with their mother at Site 19, Community one just like Yahaya.

Chief Inspector Ben Agbedanu, prosecuting stated that Yahaya who was a family friend often takes the children out, adding that, on June 26 at about 0930 hours a witness run to inform victims' mother who was at her food joint that she heard her three year old daughter crying in a carpenter's shop behind her house.

Prosecution said the witness pushed open the closed door and the victim run to her and informed her that Yahaya was inserting his fingers into her private part which the accused denied with an explanation that the victim was crying because she wanted to go to her mother. He further stated that the other victim, who was questioned by her mother as to whether she has also been harassed by the accused, revealed that Yahaya inserted his fingers as well as defiled her sometime back in their house and on a log by the roadside at site 19. The case was therefore reported at the Community One police and Yahaya was arrested while the two victims were sent to the Tema General Hospital for medical examination which revealed that even though their hymen were not broken, their private parts were inflamed with bruises.