A gang of 12 men have
been jailed for a combined total of 140 years over the grooming and rape of a
girl.
They were found guilty
of 16 offences started in May 2011 when the girl was 13 and continued until
June 2012.
Judge Roger Thomas QC
handed the men sentences of between three-and-a-half and 20 years detention,
including an extended sentence for one of the men, Mahmood.
He said, “You’re all
to be sentenced, all of you, for offences against a young vulnerable child.
“She was only 13 or 14
when the 12 of you took such terrible and heartless sexual advantage of her.”
The judge said cases
such as these were classed as child sexual exploitation.
He said, “This is a
category of case which involves the sexual exploitation of usually young,
vulnerable girls by groups of men who take advantage of a child for their own
selfish, sexual gratification.”
Kabir, who received
the greatest jail term of 20 years, was also sentenced for 12 sexual offences
against two other young girls after being found guilty at a separate trial.
Mr Hampton said the
abuse took place over a period of two years when one girl was aged between six
and seven and the other was aged between seven and nine.
Judge Thomas said all
four victims had suffered ‘severe psychological harm’.
A trial last year
heard how the teenager was repeatedly raped by the men in encounters arranged
by a violent drug dealer over a period of 13 months between 2011 and 2012.
It was also reported that the
girl was gang-raped by five of the defendants.
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