I'm sure they will just love this guy in prison.

A man who was convicted last year of bringing two teenage runaways to Houston to work as prostitutes was sentenced Wednesday to nearly 22 years in federal prison.

Beaumont native George ``Unique'' Anderson III, 29, received a punishment more severe than the 15-year sentence prescribed under federal guidelines. U.S. District Judge David Hittner added seven years, bringing the sentence to 262 months.

Hittner considered that Anderson's recruitment of the girls exposed them to sexually transmitted diseases and that he was not prosecuted on allegations that he involved three other minors. After his release, he faces a lifetime of supervision and registration as a sex offender.

Anderson spent six years in federal prison for armed robbery before turning to the sex business.

He was accused of selling the sexual favors of a Florida girl and a Beaumont girl, ages 14 and 15, respectively. The girls were arrested on prostitution charges in 2005.

In the first federal conviction for child prostitution in the Southern District of Texas, a jury in September 2006 found Anderson guilty of two counts of sex trafficking of children.

The case was investigated by Project Innocence Lost, a special FBI unit in Houston that aims to rescue children working in the sex industry.

Those who victimize children sexually are scum -- and my great regret is that we have to pay for the care and feeding of this mutt for the next 22 years. A single shot to the back of the head on the courthouse steps immediately following conviction would have been a more appropriate punishment for this guy.

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