Former professional soccer team owner Dion Earl was sentenced Friday to 12 years in state prison and a lifetime of probation for the 2017 sexual assaults of two women in Mesa.

Earl, 44, was sentenced during proceedings held before Judge Suzanne Cohen in Maricopa County Superior Court, court officials tweeted. A jury returned a guilty verdict against him in August.

A former owner of the Seattle Impact team, Earl was found guilty of multiple felony charges, including sexual assault, kidnapping, sexual abuse, public sexual indecency, assault and kidnapping, according to court officials.

The charges were filed in connection with suspected attacks on a 21-year-old woman on Sept. 12, 2017, and an 18-year-old woman on Oct. 22, 2017. The women were hired by Earl as babysitters.

“Dion Earl terrorized many woman over the years. Justice was served today for the victims who he assaulted,” said victims' attorney Benjamin Taylor in an email.

During the investigation, Earl told detectives that none of the allegations by the victims were true, but then changed his story to say that he had cuddled with one of the victims in his bedroom and claimed it was the victim who assaulted him, according to an earlier statement from former Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery, after the verdict.

The Arizona Republic typically does not identify victims of sexual assault.