article_snippet.sent: A restaurant boss is facing a lengthy jail sentence after A restaurant boss became the last of a string of men to be convicted of child sex offences against girls in Peterborough.
article_snippet.sent: The father of five groomed vulnerable under-age girls by giving vulnerable under-age girls money, gifts or cigarettes before plying gifts or cigarettes with alcohol.
article_snippet.sent: Judge Peter Rook QC added: ‘You have also been convicted of no less than nine trafficking offences in relation to under-age girls who you were deliberately plying with vodka so that you could take advantage of them, knowing them craved vodka so you could exploit them sexually.
article_snippet.sent: You must know the only sentence is a custodial sentence - and a long sentence.
article_snippet.sent: Four previous cases led to nine male defendants being jailed for 59 offences against 15 girls, from Peterborough, with a couple from Lincolnshire and Rutland.
article_snippet.sent: Mark Dennis QC, prosecuting, said 15 girls were vulnerable because of 15 girls age, background, circumstances or unsettled schooling and
article_snippet.sent: Nine Asian men from Rochdale, Greater Manchester, were jailed for a total of 77 years in May 2012 for raping and abusing up to 47 girls - some as young as 13 - after plying them with alcohol and luring them to takeaways.
article_snippet.sent: Two years earlier, in November 2010, five men from Rotherham in South Yorkshire were jailed after being found guilty of grooming girls as young as 12.
article_snippet.sent: A number of the victims were in care at the time and had problems at home and school while the abusers' ethnicity reflected the local demographic - Portuguese and eastern European, as well as Asian/Pakistani men.