Herbert Rodgers.

Well, on the bright side we won’t be paying out the arse to keep him alive anymore.

Burlington Free Press:

A man convicted of pouring lye on his ex-wife and burning her beyond recognition has died in Pennsylvania’s Camp Hill prison facility. The death was the third of a Vermont prisoner in three months.

Herbert Rodgers, 62, was pronounced dead at about 11 a.m. Monday at Harrisburg Hospital in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, the Vermont Department of Corrections said in a statement.

Rodgers’ ex-wife, Carmen Tarleton, received a face transplant in Boston after the lye attack, in which she was burned over more than 80 percent of her body.

Carmen Tarleton.

A former factory worker has been jailed for raping a 14-year-old girl and abusing her 13-year-old friend in a sickening child sexual exploitation case.

Twisted Saham Amin, 21, plied the youngsters with booze before attacking them at his house in Stourbridge.

The pervert, of Balds Lane, Lye, has now been jailed for six years and eight months after pleading guilty to raping the older girl and sexually assaulting her younger friend.

Wolverhampton Crown Court heard Amin preyed on the 14-year-old for around a year before the assault, when they came into contact through a mutual friend.

On September 24 last year he texted her and asked if she wanted to come round to his house for a “drinking session”.

The teen arrived with the younger girl and the pair were plied with two thirds of a litre bottle of vodka and given cigarettes by Amin, who sexually assaulted the younger victim before raping her older friend.

He initially denied the allegations but later admitted the offences in light of the medical evidence and the girls’ testimonies against him.

As well as being jailed, he will also be placed on the Sex Offenders’ Register for life.

Detective Sergeant Kay Redfern, from the force’s Public Protection Unit, said: “This was a complex case involving two very scared girls and – as with most victims of child sexual exploitation – they were reluctant to give details at first as they were fearful of repercussions.

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