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Three girls who sexually assaulted a boy during a three-and-a-half hour "happy slapping" ordeal have been given detention orders of up to four years.
The girls, two aged 17 and one 16, were convicted of false imprisonment and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent.
It took place in a flat in Woolwich, south-east London, in March 2006.
Begging for mercy
Judge Colin Smith told them that a particularly unpleasant and increasingly common feature of the victim's ordeal was that it was video-recorded on at least one mobile phone.
During the boy's ordeal he was subjected to a "sudden severe physical assault", made to strip naked and forced to perform a sex act in front of the group.
After several hours the boy managed to escape, with some of his clothes, and went to his ex-girlfriend's mother's house.
Pain and humiliation
"This kind of behaviour went far beyond even serious bullying, and amounted to the infliction of pain and humiliation on the victim, which is intolerable behaviour."
One of the 17-year-olds, said to be the ringleader, received a four-year detention order.
The 16-year-old was given three years' detention and the other 17-year-old was given a two-year detention and training order.
The trio, who cannot be named because of their age, were found guilty of false imprisonment and causing a person to engage in sexual activity without consent on 9 August.
One of the girls pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm and the other two were found guilty of the same charge.
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