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An airconditioner repairer, who defiled his elder brother�s two daughters at Osu, has been arraigned before an Accra Circuit Court. Daniel Tawiah Latsey, 21, was charged with defilement to which he pleaded guilty. The court, presided over by Ms. Patricia Quansah, convicted Daniel on his own plea. The court, however, deferred his sentence to November 27 and ordered that Latsey be remanded in police custody. Latsey contended that he did not insert his penis into the victims� female organs. According to him, he only wriggled his waist while lying on the victims and after discharging some sperms, he allowed them to go their way. Prosecuting, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Sarah Acquah said the complainant is a 38-year-old hotel supervisor, who resides at Osu in Accra, and the biological father of the victims who reside with him. The convict resides with the complainant in the same room. Prosecution said the nature of the work of the complainant and the wife does not allow them to stay in the house very often. ASP Acquah said Daniel, who took care of the victims, took advantage of the absence of the complainant and his wife, and had sexual intercourse with them. On November 15, this year at about 9pm Daniel had sex with the victims again. One of the victims, who is eight years old, informed her mother, who in turn reported the case to the Domestic Violence and Victims Support unit of the Ghana Police Service. Prosecution said, medical forms were issued to the victim for medical examination and treatment.