Two teenage girls 'became sex slaves of group of Asian men in Rochdale', court hears

Two susceptible 13-year-old-girls became “sex slaves” for a pack of 8 Asian men who would rape and maltreatment them “whenever and wherever they wanted”, a assemblage heard.

The men preyed connected the susceptible teens who would beryllium “passed astir for sex, abused, degraded and past discarded” astatine assorted locations successful the bluish municipality of Rochdale, it is alleged.

Rossano Scamardella KC, prosecuting, told Manchester Minshull Street Court however the 8 men accused were liable for the rape and intersexual exploitation of the 2 girls implicit a five-year play 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.”

Opening the expected 12-week trial, Mr Scamardella said the alleged victims would bent astir groups of Asian men astatine assorted parks, woods and moorland, oregon astatine the marketplace and a snooker hallway successful Rochdale, but would besides beryllium driven astir by men and picked up and dropped disconnected astatine assorted flats and houses.

He added: “These men preyed upon those vulnerabilities for their ain perverted intersexual gratification successful the astir humiliating and degrading mode imaginable.”

The assemblage was told however the men would groom the girls to “make them consciousness similar grown-ups” arsenic they were plied with alcohol, cigarettes, drugs, and fixed places to enactment and radical to beryllium with.

He said: “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.”

The authoritative revealed that unprotected enactment had been regular with the girls being lied to that it was forbidden for Muslim men to usage condoms.

Mr Scamardella added: “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.

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, each contradict the charges.

The proceedings continues.