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Gang accused of sexually assaulting teenagers
Schoolgirls were given drinks and drugs and raped regularly
- Daily Mail
- Published: 00:00 February 23, 2012
London: A gang of 11 men plied schoolgirls as young as 13 with drink and drugs before they raped them, a court heard yesterday.
The vulnerable children were passed among the group and sometimes forced to have sex with several men in one day.
The young girls, who all came from broken homes, were often too incapacitated by drink or drugs to be able to fend off the men, it was alleged.
The jury heard one 13-year-old girl became pregnant by one man and had the baby aborted, while another teenager claimed she was raped by three men while she was sick.
The gang was eventually smashed by police who arrested 11 men who yesterday appeared in court charged with a variety of sex offences against children, including rape, trafficking, sexual assault and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child.
Rachel Smith, prosecuting, said the girls were not regularly in school and would simply hang around town with nothing to do. She said the men, who all knew each other, befriended the girls at two kebab shops, Tasty Bites and Balti House, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester.
Two of the men worked in the takeaways while four other men worked as cab drivers at local taxi firms, one was a student and four were jobless.
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