A woman who plied two teenage boys with drink and drugs before sexually assaulting them was jailed for three years on Wednesday.

Nottingham Crown Court heard that Hazel Hallam, 36, had opened up her home to boys in social services care.

She pleaded guilty to five counts of indecent assault against the two boys between 2000 and 2001, starting when the children were aged 14.

The judge said there was no difference between a male or female paedophile.

Just as a male paedophile would with a young girl or boy, she was grooming them

John Stobart, prosecuting

Judge Alison Hampton said: "It was a house where young people who were escaping school attendance, or from the discipline of their homes, were corrupted and abused.

"These were young people who needed help, but you provided quite the opposite.

"Having got them intoxicated you abused them for your own gratification."

Judge Hampton added: "I can see no reason to draw any distinction between a male and female offender who draws young people into their own home and corrupts and abuses them for their own gratification."

Hallam, from St Ann's, Nottingham, had changed her pleas to guilty on five indecent assault charges after the first boy had given evidence at her trial earlier this month.

She was sentenced to three years in jail and was ordered to sign the sex offenders register.