Two men went to jail for raping teenage girls a judge called "extremely vulnerable." These criminals, Romulad Stefan Houphouet, 37, and Absolom Sigiyo, 41, heard their sentences after a Sheffield court found them guilty of many sexual crimes. The trial lasted five weeks and revealed how these men attacked two teenagers many times each week over several months in Rotherham more than ten years ago. The attackers belonged to a group that called these young victims "fresh meat" - words the judge labeled "particularly degrading."
Judge Sarah Wright gave Houphouet, from Ivory Coast, twenty years behind bars. Sigiyo, from Zimbabwe, received eighteen years and six months. She told both men they caused terrible mental damage to these girls, who...