Rochdale grooming gang ‘used vulnerable young girls as sex slaves’, trial hears

Two young girls were groomed to go ‘sex slaves’ for a radical of Asian men successful Rochdale who preyed connected their vulnerabilities, a tribunal has heard.

From the property of 13, the girls were expected to person enactment with them ‘whenever and wherever’ they wanted, jurors astatine Manchester Minshull Street Court were told.

Rossano Scamardella KC, prosecuting, said the 8 men connected proceedings were liable for the rape and intersexual exploitation of the 2 girls from 2001.

He said: ‘Through nary responsibility of their own, the troubled backgrounds of the girls made them susceptible to the advances of these men, and others who behaved conscionable similar them.

‘Their attraction astatine the hands of these predators was appalling.

‘They were children passed astir for sex, abused, degraded and past discarded. That it was the 2 of them that were exploited successful this mode was not by chance.’

They would besides beryllium driven astir by men and picked up and dropped disconnected astatine assorted flats and houses, said Mr Scamardella.

The authoritative went on: ‘These men preyed upon those vulnerabilities for their ain perverted intersexual gratification successful the astir humiliating and degrading mode imaginable.

‘It would statesman by making the girls consciousness similar grown-ups arsenic they were fixed alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, places to enactment and radical to beryllium with.

‘Over clip it is possibly casual to spot however they became beholden to men who, for the archetypal clip successful their lives, treated them decently and gave them the attraction they truthful desperately craved.

‘But that was to rapidly change, and drastically so.

‘The girls were expected to person enactment with these men and others, whenever and wherever the men wanted.

‘They were often forced to person oral enactment and vaginal enactment with aggregate men connected the aforesaid day, successful filthy flats and connected rancid mattresses.

‘On different occasions they would beryllium required to person enactment successful cars, car parks, alleyways oregon disused warehouses. Wherever and whenever these men wanted it.

‘Unprotected enactment was routine. The girls were lied to astir it being forbidden for Muslim men to usage extortion truthful the men would often ejaculate successful their mouths oregon wrong them.

‘Both girls would beryllium expected to reply calls astatine each times of the time and nighttime from the men that wanted to person enactment with them.

‘(Girl A) told the constabulary arsenic portion of the probe that often she would beryllium connected the telephone to 1 antheral whilst much than 1 different would beryllium connected hold.

‘They became enactment slaves.’

He added: ‘Both girls were vulnerable. They had profoundly troubled location lives and were known to the authorities. Their schoolhouse attendance was poor, they were often missing from location and their behaviour astatine times was difficult.

‘The defendants were lone excessively alert of their tender ages and the difficulties they were experiencing with day-to-day life. It was evident that they craved the attraction that their location lives and families did not provide, which made them casual prey for older men to exploit.’

The alleged intersexual offences, said to beryllium committed betwixt 2001 and 2006, see rape, indecent battle and indecency with a child.

The defendants person denied each the charges.

They are: Mohammed Zahid, 64, of Station Road, Crumpsall, Manchester; Naheem Akram, 48, of Manley, Road, Rochdale; Mohammed Shazad, 43, of Beswicke Royds Street, Rochdale; Nisar Hussain, 43, of Newfield Close, Rochdale; Roheez Khan, 39, of Athole Street, Rochdale; Arfan Khan, 40, of Grouse Street, Rochdale; Mushtaq Ahmed, 66, of Corona Avenue, Oldham; and Kasir Bashir, 50, of Napier Street East, Oldham.

Mr Scamardella said the defendants – astatine the applicable times – were ‘broadly speaking’ either taxi drivers oregon connected to Rochdale market.

Zahid – known past arsenic Bossman oregon Knickerman – was said to person fixed escaped underwear from his lingerie stall connected the marketplace to some complainants erstwhile helium was aged successful his mid-40s, said the prosecutor.

He besides allegedly gave them money, intoxicant and nutrient successful instrumentality for the anticipation of regular enactment for him and different Asian men from Rochdale, the tribunal heard.

Mr Scamardella told the court: ‘Both girls were good known to societal services and different agencies, and it was nary concealed that some girls were having enactment with older Asian men.

‘No reports were made to the constabulary and thing was done.

‘No enactment was taken to halt what was happening to these 2 girls oregon to halt different likewise susceptible girls suffering the aforesaid fate.’

In 2015, Girl A contacted Greater Manchester Police to accidental she had been the unfortunate of kid intersexual exploitation and Girl B aboriginal followed with akin allegations.

Neither complainant tin beryllium identified for ineligible reasons to support their anonymity.

The authoritative said Rochdale and surrounding parts of Greater Manchester had been ‘blighted by this benignant of kid intersexual exploitation’ and that Girl A was the maltreatment unfortunate of galore different Asian men.

Girl A, helium said, had told section children’s services successful 2004 that she was ‘hanging around’ with groups of older men, drinking and taking cannabis.

She went connected to accidental she was sleeping with a ample fig of men aft ‘Bossman’ had introduced her to his friends, said Mr Scamardella.

The proceedings continues.

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