By David Young-
Two men who have both been jailed for two and a half years for sexually abusing two vulnerable teenage girls who had gone missing from a Bradford children’s home.
The underage victims were assaulted at a house in Bradford, after meeting Stanislav Himal by chance in the street late at night and giving him directions.
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He took them to the address where they thought they would receive money and cigarettes for helping him, prosecutor Abigail Langford told Bradford Crown Court today.
Prosecutor Abigail told the court that Himal appeared to be trying to find an address and the girls agreed to help thinking they might get alcohol or cigarettes.
Instead, Himal took them to the home of his friend Jozef Fedor in Derby Street where the two teenagers were subjected to sexual assaults.
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Miss Langford said one of the girls was pushed upstairs and taken into a room by Himal. She said: “She was shouting out and kicking against him.”
The court heard that despite her efforts to fight him off, Himal sexually assaulted the teenager before her screams led to her friend coming into the room and telling the defendant to get off her.
The sexual assault victim was then grabbed by Fedor who took her into another room where he also abused her. Miss Langford said Fedor had earlier kissed the other teenager and tried to pull her leggings off.
Himal, 35, a father of seven, of Runswick Terrace, Wibsey, Bradford, and co-accused Jozef Fedor, 56, of Frank Street, Great Horton, then sexually molested the two girls who fled the house out of fear without their shoes and jackets.
The men denied abusing the girls but were convicted by a jury of sexual assault.
Miss Langford said the girls arrived at the house in the early hours of the morning on a day several years ago.
It was then suggested to them that the men were offering the money and cigarettes in return for sex, saying they ‘would have to work’ for them.
Things then ‘spiralled out of control’ with both girls being molested.
One was pushed upstairs and assaulted on a bed by Himal. She was screaming and kicking out as she tried to fight him off.
She was then forced on the floor and abused again.
Fedor was kissing one girl against her will and trying to take off her leggings, the court was told.
The teenagers fled the house without their shoes and jackets and summoned help from a passer-by. One had a neck injury after struggling with her attacker.
Himal, 35, of Runswick Terrace, Bradford, and 56-year-old Fedor, now of Frank Street, Bradford, both denied the sexual assault charges, but they were found guilty of the offences by a jury.
The court heard they now faced deportation if they received immediate jail sentences of more than 12 months.
The police were called and the defendants denied the assaults at trial.
Miss Langford said the girls were particularly vulnerable. They were missing from a children’s home and out late at night.
The men were acting together and there was an offer to give the teenagers alcohol.
“One young female saw her friend being assaulted and vice versa,” Miss Langford stated.
Andrea Parnham, for Himal, said he had no previous convictions. The offending was opportunistic, impulsive and out of character.
He had a wife and seven children and was in work at the time.
He and Fedor had been held in Leeds Prison on remand for several months.
Catherine Duffy, Fedor’s barrister, said he too had no previous convictions.
It was one incident more than three years ago.
Fedor had been working as a plumber and now intended to return to Slovakia on his release.
Recorder Patrick Palmer jailed both men for 30 months.
The judge said: “You both, I am sure, understand that these are serious offences. You were both in drink at the time. It was late at night and the young girls were taken to a house they had not been to before.”
Recorder Palmer said they would now have to register as sex offenders with the police and they would also be subject to a 10-year sexual harm prevention order.
He made Sexual Harm Prevention Orders for ten years and each must sign on the sex offender register, also for ten years
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