25/2/2024

Grooming Gangs

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Bristol

The Bristol child sex abuse ring was a group of 13 men who committed sexual offences against underage teenage girls in Bristol, in southwestern England. In November 2014, they were convicted of offences including rape, paying a child for sex, causing or inciting child prostitution, sexual acts with children and sex trafficking. The men abused and prostituted their victims across Bristol, using hotels, private houses, parks and public toilets.

Mohamed Jumale
Said Zakaria
Sakariah Sheikh
Mohamed Dahir
Omar Jumale
Abdirashid Abdulahi
Jusef Abdirizak

Some were drug-dealers selling heroin and cocaine, while others were described as “well-educated men with good prospects”. As in similar sex-abuse cases in other parts of Britain, their victims were typically “vulnerable white girls” who were supposedly under local authority care. The gang coerced the girls into sex with small payments of money, gifts of drugs and alcohol, and by persuading them that having sex with many men was part of “Somali 'culture and tradition'”.

Total of thirteen men (all Asian / African) were convicted, their names, convictions and sentences are listed below.

In a police interview, Said Zakaria referred to two thirteen-year-old victims of one incident of abuse as “dirty slags” who knew that their function was to “suck dick and then fuck off”. He had trafficked a “small 13-year-old girl” to a “sex party” in a hotel room in Bristol, where he raped her twice in what the trial judge, Julian Lambert, described as a “rough, callous and very nasty manner” and using “significant” force. Zakaria left the girl “totally humiliated and bleeding”. The girl was then raped again by Jusuf Abdirazak, whom the judge described as acting “without humanity and with no pity whatsoever”.

Glasgow

The gang preyed on vulnerable young girls in the city (Govanhill area), and had at least 44 victims, including a core group of six youngsters who were all known to each other. All were asylum seekers from the Kurdish, Afghani, Egyptian, Moroccan, Turkish, Pakistani or Iraqi communities. It's believed one may have been abused by 28 men, with another linked to 23. 55 suspected members of the vile group were identified by officers, with 46 positively identified. Operation Cerrar was kept under wraps by Police Scotland, and only came to light after an investigation by national newspaper the Daily Express.

“Under the heading 'Victims', the report states: “Girl 1 – 28 suspects, Girl 2 – 23 suspects, Girl 3 – 9 suspects, Girl 4 – 8 suspects, Girl 5 – 4 suspects, Girl 6 – 1 suspect. All are known to one another. Twenty other named girls believed to be victims. A further 18 girls were identified through the course of the current investigation”.

Police say 19 members were reported to the Crown Office and Procurator Fiscal, but its unknown how many were convicted. Briefings from the 2016 operation are stored in the archives of the Glasgow Child Protection Committee. The horrifying extent of the gang's activities was laid bare in a National Child Abuse Investigation Unit report by Detective Inspector Sarah Taylor. 22 of the suspects were still living in Glasgow at the time, with a further eight still thought be in the UK. 14 had been deported, with another awaiting deportation and one in prison.

The grooming gang were convicted of raping and sexually abusing a schoolgirl they treated like a sex obect. Aivars Hauberts, 21, Ailands Aleksanders, 22, Hardis Gindra, 27, and Ludvigs Rudevics. 35, were found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow. Hauberts, Aleksanders and Rudevics raped the 15-year-old while co-accused Gindra was convicted of having underage sex with her in 2015. Prosecutor Bernard Ablett said: “They groomed and sexually exploited her and used her as nothing other that a sex object.” Their victim, now 19, told Mr Ablett she drank vodka and MD 20/20 at her birthday party and was "extremely drunk" in June 2015.

Ailands Aleksanders
Aivars Hauberts
Ludvigs Rudevics
Hardis Gindra

She sobbed as she told how vile Hauberts and Alekanders, who were at the house party, raped her. She said in evidence that she was intoxicated and falling in and out of sleep. The victim, from Glasgow, also told the court that Rudevics raped her at a flat in Ardencraig Road, Glasgow, in July 14, 2015, after offering her a place to stay for the night, and that Gindra had underage sex with her in an unknown location on June 13, 2015. She sobbed as she told how vile Hauberts and Alekanders, who were at the house party, raped her. She said in evidence that she was intoxicated and falling in and out of sleep. The victim, from Glasgow, also told the court that Rudevics raped her at a flat in Ardencraig Road, Glasgow, in July 14, 2015, after offering her a place to stay for the night, and that Gindra had underage sex with her in an unknown location on June 13, 2015.

Birmingham

Groomers have targeted one of the UK's youngest child sexual exploitation victims in the Black Country — aged just nine. The shocking case has been revealed by Sandwell Council in new statistics which showed social services were also dealing with 35 other kids at risk of abuse in 2020. Their ages ranged from the nine-year-old to 22, with two cases classed as the highest risk, 26 medium and seven low. Two thirds (33) of the victims were said to 'white British or white other', while nine were said to be mixed race and one was from a Pakistani background. In February, we told how police have been accused of failing one alleged victim after bringing no charges in seven years and losing 30 hours of her interview tapes.

“From 2012 to 2016, a total of 6,226 child abuse allegations were referred to social services in the West Midlands borough of Sandwell — an average of three a day. In 2014, following an investigation by the Birmingham Mail, a West Midlands Police report found that three-quarters of known child sex groomers in the county were of “Asian” (South Asian) ethnicity, specifically of Pakistani origin, and 82 per cent of the victims, aged 14 to 16, were white.”.

Hannah, whose name was changed to protect her identity, reported to West Midlands Police that she was repeatedly raped by 18 men. The attacks allegedly began when she was just 10-years-old and continued until she was 17. Some of her alleged attackers were in a local Walsall street gang at the time and are said to have later progressed to serious organised crime, including drug dealing. Karen said: “I was 12 or 13 when I went with my mum to the police to report the first rape. But a female police officer accused me of lying, and that just broke me. I went off the rails after that.” A police report in 2012 confirmed a grooming gang was operating in an area of Walsall with a large Pakistani population.

In mid November 2014 Six men from Birmingham were named by a high court judge as being the subject of anti-grooming orders, which were put in place to ensure they have no contact with vulnerable girls. The decision to identify the men as being subject to injunctions preventing child sexual exploitation was made by Mr Justice Keehan, despite objections from the West Midlands police that they could become the targets of far-right vigilante attacks. The six named as being the subject of the final orders are:

Juliet Allen, counsel for two of the men, said they feared reprisals “following [child exploitation cases] in Rotherham” where the EDL tried to target those who had been identified. The court heard that the chief constable of the West Midlands was opposed to naming the 10 men who are the subject of the injunctions. Two of the men are in prison. One was said to have threatened to harm himself if identified. The Press Association and other media had made representations that the men should be named.

Michael Oluronbi

The Birmingham bathing cult was an offshoot of a Christian church, based in Birmingham, England, that committed serious sexual offences against children for over 20 years. Its leader Michael Oluronbi gave children "holy baths" as cover for the abuse. Michael Oluronbi, born in Nigeria, led a splinter group of the Cherubim and Seraphim Church at a house in Birmingham, England from 1989. It had approximately 40 members. He branded himself as a prophet and according to police "had such a hold over the congregation that anything he said was taken as read".

Oluronbi sexually abused children for over 20 years starting in 1989, in Birmingham and London. His known victims were six girls and a boy, some of whom he continued abusing as adults. His youngest victim was aged eight. Police believe there may be other victims. He perpetrated the crimes while giving the children "spiritual baths" in an upstairs bathroom, sometimes with the assistance of his wife. The victims were either naked or wearing only a red sash. The abuse included forcing children to drink perfume, sexual assault during a bath and rape afterwards. He perpetrated rape at least 88 times.

Coventry

Five men have been convicted of sexually abusing and trafficking six teenage girls in Coventry. Ringleader Khan befriended the girls, aged 15 to 17, on social media before picking them up and forcing them to have sex, sometimes filming it. West Midlands Police described them as "brazen, calculating and evil". The court heard the men took the girls, some of whom were in care, to secluded areas of the city and sometimes gave them alcohol or drugs before abusing and trafficking them for sex.

One girl, aged 17, said she was knocked out by one of the men and came round to see them watching a video of herself being raped while she was unconscious. Det Ch Insp Ian Green said Khan came to the attention of police in March when he was a mutual "friend" on the accounts of several vulnerable young girls in the city. When police subsequently examined his phone, officers found thousands of text messages containing "sexualised conversations and several videos of graphic sexual abuse".

The uncle of one of the girls described them as "despicable rats". He said: "They're out there prowling through social media acting on vulnerable girls and abusing the life out of them for their own satisfaction and videoing them for their gratification - they're just treating them like pieces of meat.". Det Ch Insp Ian Green said the men felt they were untouchable. "It was the brazen nature of their offending that they actually thought they were untouchable and these girls wouldn't report it through fear," Mr Green said.

Blackpool

At least 60 young white girls were “groomed for sex by workers at seedy takeaways” in Blackpool. One of these takeaways was at the centre of a notorious court case during which claims were made that the body of one of the victims, 14-year-old Charlene Downes, had been put through a mincing machine. Takeaway staff said to have joked that her remains had “gone into the kebabs.” According to the police report, girls as young as 11 have been targeted by non-whites working at the fast food shops, using the now by well established method of enticing the youngsters with food, alcohol, and cigarettes in exchange for sex.

14-year-old Charlene Downes missing since 2003

Jordanian immigrant Iyad Albattikhi was accused of murdering Ms Downes, while his Iranian landlord Mohammed Reveshi was accused of disposing of her body. They were, however, acquitted and the crime remains unsolved. A retrial collapsed in 2008 and the men were paid almost £250,000 each in compensation. Their shop was refused a hot food licence in 2010, with the police claiming that “sexual activity” was still taking place on the premises. Former Detective Superintendent Mick Gradwell was quoted in the media as saying that “research into the problem was being hampered by political correctness and concerns about upsetting community cohesion.”

Burton

Five men from Burton have been convicted of child exploitation offences. The case was heard during a two-week trial at Stafford Crown Court and follows a lengthy investigation by Staffordshire Police’s Child Exploitation Team concerning activity that took place in the Burton area between October 2012 and May 2013 involving the same victim.

A seventh suspect, a 17-year-old male from Burton, received a conditional youth caution for inciting sexual activity with a girl aged 13 to 15 and was referred to the Youth Offending Team.

Shaheem Ratyal and Taiyab Hussain are among the gang of four men who abused the vulnerable girls
Sohail Ali and Mohammed Rizwan, were arrested when a teenager realised she had been groomed

Taiyab Hussain, Shaheem Ratyal and Sohail Ali, all aged 19, and 18-year-old Mohammed Rizwan, were arrested when a teenager realised she had been groomed after watching an educational video. The defendants, all from Burton-on-Trent in Staffordshire, pleaded guilty to sexual activity with a child and other sexual offences in February. Passing sentence at Stafford Crown Court, Judge Jonathan Gosling made all four men the subject of a sexual harm prevention order banning them from using the Snapchat messaging app for eight years. The judge said of the men:

“At the time of the offences they were 17 or 18 and known to each other to different degrees through association, school and social media, although not all of them knew each other “It is clear from the evidence retrieved from various devices that there was communication between the defendants and it does establish their common interest in meeting and sexually abusing these girls. These were young men treating the young girls like trophies, and to some extent, one was spurring on another.”.

The judge said the four victims, one who had only just turned 13, meant nothing to the men and had been subjected to “extreme” offences. Hussain, of Shobnall Street, was given a five-year sentence after sending highly sexualised text messages before abusing an “out of control” teenager in his car in the presence of another child. Rizwan, of Derby Road, and Ratyal, of Grange Street, were both given sentences of four years and four months. Ali, of Weston Park Avenue, admitted offences against a 13-year-old and was given a four-year term in a young offenders’ institution. Staffordshire Police said the charges were brought after five girls were sexually abused between December 2016 and March 2017.

Hull

A gang of child abusers is allegedly at large in the city of Hull. Sky News spoken to three young women who have made serious allegations, naming their attackers, and providing documents to back up their stories. Two others have given supporting testimony. It includes photographs of texts from a man threatening to kill her if she does not come immediately and have sex with a number of men. Sarah says at the age of 13 she was groomed by two men, and after two months one of them raped her.

“He tried to kiss me, and I was like 'no get off', and he was like 'no, it's time for you to pay now for all the things we've given you Then he got on top of me and raped me, and I was just a powerless 13-year-old girl. Terrified. He'd obviously decided that I was a good enough candidate to take to the next level. He introduced me to this other guy and exchanged some money with this other guy, which I've later found out I was sold into the sex trade.That room, that flat, took my childhood from me. I think I was raped by around 150 men over the three-year period, sometimes 10 or 11 men wanted to rape me per day.”.

In a spider graph Sarah later made for the police, she identifies 11 key players who came to the flat - the two groomers, the buyer and some of the regular gang members and clients. She even numbers them and provides photos to help identify some of the men. She also gave the police a drawing of herself, in which she describes herself as height 4ft 6in, wearing neon pink leggings and a Mickey Mouse t-shirt. Sarah also drew pictures of items in the flat used to intimidate and control, including a Taser, hammer and handcuffs. She said she was once handcuffed to the radiator and the abuse was sometimes filmed.

“There's videos out there of me as a 13, 14, 15-year-old little girl being raped by men. I've seen them. They've shown me them. One of the videos is captioned English girl gets f***** against her own will… I was just profit to them.”.

Now aged 19, Sarah was one of several young women who told Sky News they are disappointed the police investigation has stalled. She claims that in her early teenage years, she was threatened with being buried alive or set on fire if she did not return regularly to the flat to be raped by the men. Sarah and other victims said the beauty spot Hessle Foreshore was one of the places the men took them to sexually abuse them, but it mostly happened in flats or hotels. Sarah (which is not her real name), previously told how she was raped by around 150 men from the age of 13.

An alleged victim of a Hull grooming gang has told how she was bitten, beaten and burned during a violent rape - and that police and her school had concerns she was being abused but failed to stop it. The teenage girl's mother was so worried after her daughter repeatedly went missing with the men that she placed a tracker in her bag. She is the second young woman to tell Sky News of her ordeal at the hands of grooming gangs allegedly still at large in the East Yorkshire city. Sky News was given exclusive access to diaries and other documents that appear to support the claims of the second alleged victim, Anna (also not her real name).

“I think deep down, these girls know that it's not okay, especially at the point where they're being hurt. "In the beginning, I think there is an element that it feels like they're in a friendship or a relationship, or that they're loved and cared for by these people. And that that's very real to them. "That's where the brainwashing comes in. In that, 'actually, I've done this for you, and I've given you everything'. So now you need to pay me back.'”.

Jo Wagstaff, psychotherapist (who has )worked with victims of the gangs including Anna).

Both Sarah and Anna have accused at least one of the same men of rape. A two-year investigation by Humberside Police stalled after officers concluded there was not enough evidence to take the case to court. The dossier of evidence compiled by Anna includes her teenage diary, the account of her school welfare officer and images of bruising and strangulation, which she says was caused by her abusers. Anna's diary, which was seized by police but later given back to her, appears to offer insight into the world of a young abuse victim. "I feel like I'm living a double life," she wrote. "Normal Anna spends time with friends and family and goes out. A normal teenager - this is the Anna most people see." But underneath she tells of a different Anna. "Scared, terrified and abused Anna," she wrote.

“The Anna that feels controlled like a puppet.”.

Anna was 16 when the abuse started - so during the police investigation there was a greater need to prove she was coerced by the men. However, that evidence does seem to exist. Firstly, she took photos of the bruising on her neck and arms, which match injuries she mentions in her diary.

Anna suffered bruising to her neck .
Anna also suffered bruising to her arm.

She also regularly updated her school's welfare officer who made her own log on what was happening. Over the course of 18 months there are 290 logs, mostly referring to concerns about child exploitation.

In the logs, Anna constantly refers to the fear she has of the men she is seeing when she goes missing from school. An extract from 22 January 2019 reads: "Anna had a small red mark on left cheek, I could see blood stains on her left knee. "She knows what they do is 'harm' but she 'normalises' it. (She says) If she ignores their calls / messages, then there is more harm.". In the log, Anna's teacher notes seeing messages saying: "'I'll actually kill you' and 'Don't ignore me' from a man who works in a local takeaway shop and has been outside school.". In total, Anna provided more than a thousand pages of evidence which Sky News has shared with Mr Gamble, the former head of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre.

On one occasion Anna was picked up by police in the company of older men and the family received threats when her daughter started resisting the gang. "We've had the odd few cars outside the house, with Asian men actually looking in," Anna's mother said. "And they've messaged Anna saying: 'I'm outside your house', which was quite frightening for Anna as well as myself." Anna's mother said she also saw threatening Snapchat messages including one that read: "If you don't come with us tonight, you s**g, I will do whatever to you, or I will kill your parents". "There was just a lot of threatening messages, very nasty messages towards Anna," she added.

“The main thing that was in my head was if I don't do this something worse is going to happen. So, I'll have to go. "I felt I was protecting my family by going back. And it's just the whole cycle you're in, it's hard to get out of. "When you're so far into it, you're just normalised to it "When no-one's offering you help, you kind of think 'well it can't be that bad if no one's bothered'.”.

Anna

The abuse is first logged in an entry in Anna's diary on 1 November 2018, when she describes a violent sexual assault from someone she says was an older boy. Anna wrote: "Physical abuse: bitten, hit/slapped, dragged by legs, pinned down, hand over mouth, spat on, burnt, drink thrown at me, choked, neck locked tight." She continued: "Rape... I can't write anymore yet, too fresh.". After this, a group of different older men seem to take control of her life. She was contacted with explicit requests and her account tells of a man taking her to a forest, strangling her and threatening to kill her.

Ilford and Barking

Five men groomed and raped young girls while running a child prostitution ring. The men, all Asian, faced a total of 17 charges relating to offences carried out on six teenagers over a 12-month period in Ilford and Barking. Prosecuting barrister Kate Bex told jurors that two of the girls, aged 17 and 16 at the time, were living in a care home at the time of the alleged offences. She said:

“These girls are from difficult, troubled backgrounds and are vulnerable young people, have no concept of self-worth. The men concerned in the grooming of such young people prey on this.”.

The allegations arose after care staff became concerned some of the girls were involved in prostitution. Last July the police interviewed a number of girls and some made allegations of sexual abuse. In January last year she and a friend went to a hotel in Ilford with Naeem Ahmed, a second defendant Nabeel Ahmed, 24, and a third man Jameel Ahmed, 25, the brother of Nabeel. They were then plied with alcohol.

The complainant’s friend refused to have sex with them and left, but the alleged victim was then “pinned down on the bed” and was raped by two of the men, Ms Bex told the court. The teenager told police that Naeem Ahmed continued to prostitute her after this incident, including several occasions when she was paid for sex by a fourth man, Anas Iqbal, 25. Another victim, who was 16 at the time, alleges she was raped five times by Iqbal at different locations.

Ipswich

An Asian Grooming Gang in London held a girl captive and simultaneously raped her, Jama Abdullahi and Badrdyen Saeed carried out the attack with a teenage boy, who cannot be identified. In June 2013, the victim was attacked at a property in Foxhall Road, Ipswich. Det Con Annabel Hicks said: “Abdullahi, Saeed and the 17-year-old had come to Ipswich from London and set up a drug den at the address in Foxhall Road.

The girl was attacked by two men after she was locked inside a room at the flat, Ipswich Crown Court was told She was shown to a room by the 17-year-old, who told her one or more of his friends wanted to have sex with her. She said no, but the boy left the room and locked the door behind him.

Jama Abdullahi
Badrdyen Saeed

Saeed, of Camel Road in London, then entered the room and “orally raped” the girl. When he left, he locked the door behind him. Abdullahi, also of Camel Road, went into the room a short while later and also forced her to perform oral sex against her will before allowing her to leave the flat.

They preyed on their victim, luring her to the flat by sending her text messages On the day in question she came to the flat and made it clear that she had no intention of having sex with anyone, but was held against her will and orally raped by the two men. The girl was incredibly brave to contact the police the same day and was able to identify the flat, so we were able to make the arrests that evening“. Both men have been jailed for eight years. A 17-year-old boy, found guilty of false imprisonment, was put on an 18-month rehabilitation order.

Sheffield

Amanda Spencer initially befriended vulnerable children some as young as 13 on Sheffield streets before forcing them to have sex for cash. Amanda Spencer (23) was found guilty of 16 offences and jailed In 2014 for 12 years. The offences are said to have taken place in Sheffield between 2005 and 2012. The jury at Sheffield Crown Court was still deliberating on another 22 similar offences involving Amanda Spencer, of Canklow Road, Canklow. As the verdicts were read out, Spencer showed no emotion and she was remanded into custody.

“Those who had the temerity to refuse to do as they were instructed felt her wrath, she was violent and they were very frightened of her.”.

Prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC.

Spencer was convicted of two offences of inciting a 13-year-old girl to prostitution at a party and arranging for her to perform sex acts with men for money. She was found guilty of seven offences of facilitating prostitution by forcing a girl under 18 to have sex with a man for money when the victim was locked in a house of asylum seekers.

"I spent weeks with them getting beaten and raped and drugged. And then I was allowed to go home, I was allowed to go to school, I was allowed to see my friends, because they knew they could come and get me whenever they wanted.".

Survivor: Leona, Sky News, 6th November 2022.

Spencer was also convicted of selling the same girl to men for sex. She was found guilty of one offence of introducing an under-age girl to men for sex and three offences of facilitating prostitution. Jailing her, Judge Michael Murphy QC said: “I have absolutely no sympathy for your heartless exploitation of young, vulnerable girls. They didn’t have much of a childhood but what they had, you spoiled. They looked up to you, they regarded you as their friend and protector.
“Unfortunately what they found in you was not a protector but an exploiter.”

The jail terms come after a lengthy and complex inquiry by South Yorkshire Police called Operation Alphabet, which spanned more than two years and explored the exploitation and sexual abuse of young girls and young women between 2004 and 2011. Police were becoming increasingly concerned for the welfare of young girls who were repeatedly going missing and an investigation was launched in 2011. Intelligence experts began mapping their movements to establish if there was a pattern and Spencer emerged as the common denominator in their disappearance, prompting officers to make contact with the girls and uncover the crimes.

Redditch

A gang of six men sexually exploited and abused vulnerable young girls after luring them over Facebook with the promise of drink and drugs, a court heard. The group are accused of forcing the underage victims - aged between 12 and 15 - to engage in sexual activity between 2013 and 2017.

Arslan Tazarab (right) with brother Ethashan Tazarab (left) outside Kidderminster Magistrates Court in 2020
Usman Ali, 27, of Redditch and Usmaan Asghar pictured outside Kidderminster Magistrates Court in 2020.

A court heard the men committed the offences against eight girls under the age of 16 in the Redditch area of Worcestershire.

Detailing some of the alleged offending, Mr Heywood described how one of the girls was contacted through her Facebook profile by Numan Mohammed when in her early teens. The prosecutor added the girl "began to find the tone of messages he was sending to her were growing increasingly inappropriate" and that he "would try and play on her emotions, guilt-tripping her, to use her own words". The Crown's QC said Mohammed - who was known by the nicknames "Nomi" and "Nome" - would become "angry" if she refused his advances, and that on one occasion he performed an indecent act during a Skype call. The alleged victim would later tell police she was "going through a hard patch" in her life, and felt Mohammed "was the only person who had truly cared".

"I thought he actually liked me," the girl would later tell officers. Mr Heywood said: "That theme of manipulating emotions and manipulating insecurity is one we're going to come across time and again in this case." On another occasion, the same girl was contacted on Facebook by Arslan Tazarab, and was "guilt-tripped" into allegedly having sex with him on two occasions. "It was too far to walk home... she was scared of the dark and she didn't want Arslan Tazarab to be angry with her," Mr Heywood said. Mr Heywood said the same girl was also allegedly approached by Ehtasham Tazarab - whom she found "downright creepy" - and who had "tried it on" with her once, but was rebuffed. Another girl alleged that after smoking cannabis together with Mohammed, he had forced her to perform a sex act on him, and that - on a separate occasion - she was assaulted by him in a locked room.

Abdul Hussain, 21, Usmaan Asghar, 22, Arslan Tazarab, 25, Ethashan Tazarab, 21, Usman Ali, 28 and Numan Mohammed, 23, went on trial at Worcester Crown Court. They are charged with a total of 24 sex offences going back almost ten years - including sexual assault and sexual activity with a child. Opening the case, prosecutor Mark Heywood QC said some girls were targeted 'just because they were in reach' while cannabis was used to 'take advantage' of them.

Yeovil

Between 2010 and 2014, Ahmet Kurtyemez, 29, and Mehmet Citak, 34, "systematically abused" six children, aged 14 and 15 at the time. Child ‘C’ and child ‘Q’ believed they were "in love" with the men, despite both being considerably older than them and already married. The police investigation into the case was called Operation Fenestra. The abuse went on over a period between 2010 and 2014. Both men were convicted in November 2016.

Mehmet Citak
Ahmet Kurtyemez

Speaking after the sentencing of the two men, Detective Inspector Lindsay Sherlock said that Citak and Kurtyemez had "abused the trust of the victims for their own sexual gratification," and that they had been "cruelly robbed of a normal childhood". She said: "The men systematically abused these young children over a number of years, slowly eroding their confidence and making them think these crimes were acceptable. The victims in this case were cruelly robbed of a normal childhood and I have no doubt will have a lasting effect on all of them, as well as their families. These men have refused to take any responsibility for these truly despicable crimes, forcing some of their victims to relive their ordeal by giving evidence at the trial."

Leicester

Six men have been jailed for paying or offering to pay a "vulnerable and damaged" 16-year-old girl for sex. Leicester Crown Court heard she had been used as a "sexual commodity" and left with internal injuries. The girl told the men she was a prostitute, but the judge said they must have realised she was vulnerable and should have helped her. The men, whose ages range from 20 to 39, were jailed for between eight months and five years. Three pleaded guilty at their first appearance at Leicester Crown Court and three pleaded guilty part-way through a trial.

Judge Michael Pert QC said:

“While it is fair to say that none of the defendants played any part in her decision to prostitute herself, it is equally true to say that anyone meeting her would immediately have realised that this was a vulnerable 16-year-old girl from a good Sikh family, who was embarking upon a disastrous course of action.”.

The girl, now 17, had been been drinking alcohol to excess, smoking cannabis and self-harming, and said she needed to make money as her parents had threatened to throw her out. She told police that boys at college had paid her for sex before she met the men, who were all from Leicester. Rakib Iacub was the first of the men to have sex with the victim, after they met at a Diwali festival. The 20 year old introduced his 39-year-old friend, Aabidali Mubarak Ali, to the girl, and the three had sex together in a bed and breakfast.

Judge Pert said Ali was responsible for "spreading the word" about the girl, who began receiving a large number of phone calls from men, and also Facebook messages. Between November last year and January this year the men had sex with her at various locations across Leicester, including a flat above the Moghul Durbar restaurant in East Park Road. Some of the men claimed they did not know it was illegal to pay a girl under 18 for sex, but Judge Pert said their conduct was "morally reprehensible" regardless.

Nottingham

Three men have been convicted of sexually abusing vulnerable teenage girls after police found a "treasure trove" of evidence against them. Police said the offences took place in Nottingham city centre between February 2017 and January 2019. They related to three girls in the care system who were 13 to 15 at the time, the force added.

Waqas Akhtar
Mohammed Saeed Ahmed
Hamza Shazad

Nottinghamshire Police said they started an investigation into the men in September 2018 after concerns were raised by agencies in charge of supporting two of the girls. Officers spent 12 months gathering evidence before carrying out co-ordinated raids on the same day in March 2019.

Det Insp Jamie Hill said: "These vulnerable young people were sexually abused and exploited by adult men who knew full well that what they were doing was wrong. These men groomed them for sex over a sustained period - sending and receiving sexually explicit messages. "This was a complex and long-running investigation involving dozens of detectives. As is often the way with reports of child sexual exploitation, this case started not with a complaint by the victims, but by the very grave concerns of other people.

Finland

In December 2018, it transpired that adult men, all of whom had arrived in Finland as asylum seekers or refugees, were grooming, and raping and otherwise sexually abusing, girls under 15 years of age in Oulu, Finland. One victim ended up committing suicide. The Oulu Police Department warned young girls and parents, while emphasizing that "not all people with foreign backgrounds are dishonest or criminals." By mid-January 2019, the suspects numbered 16.

The case was said to have "rocked" Finland, where cabinet members broke the otherwise normal Finnish taboo about commenting about ongoing criminal investigations. One of the grooming gang suspects escaped to Germany and may have gone to France. He was arrested in Germany in 2018, but was let go. The suspect is 25 or 26 years old, and is said to have raped a 13-year-old over a long period. An Iraqi national, he was again captured in Saarbrücken in 2019 while on a high-speed train from Paris to Mannheim, but it was said it could take up to four weeks to extradite him to Finland.

Cover up

Almost 50,000 people have signed a petition demanding that the government release its research into the characteristics of grooming gangs. Having exceeded 10,000 signatures, the government must respond to the appeal, which is the result of an article in The Independent revealing that the Home Office refused to publish the document and claimed it was not in the “public interest”.

“We, the British public, demand the release of the official research on grooming gangs undertaken by the government in full,”.

It cites another Independent article, which revealed that almost 19,000 suspected child victims of sexual exploitation were identified by local authorities in just one year. The petition, which had 48,000 signatures by Friday afternoon, will be considered for a debate in parliament if the total passes 100,000. It has been signed by people across the UK, as well as British citizens abroad in countries including Australia, Japan and Thailand.

Diane Abbott, the shadow home secretary, said:

“There must be no more cover-ups around these horrific crimes and no more inaction from the government. Many of the girls will never recover from the abuse they suffered and they and their families deserve all the facts. This report should be published."

In response to a Freedom of Information (FoI) request that asked for the research carried out and any reports drawn up as a result, the Home Office said it held the information but would not release it. Survivors of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham said they believed the research was going to be made public and accused the government of making “empty promises”. Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, and the former chief prosecutor who initiated charges against a grooming gang in Rochdale are among those demanding its release.

Paedophile Hunters

Since the Rotherham scandal dozens of vigilante pervert hunting groups operate across the country snaring potential child groomerse. Paedophile hunters are becoming an ever greater feature in child grooming investigations despite police warning that vigilante groups could ruin evidence. Paedophile hunters most commonly work on social media and messaging apps to snare potential child groomers. Among Britain's most popular vigilante groups is Dark Justice, Guardians Of The North, Silent Justice and Stinson Hunter, but there are believed to be dozens more across the UK.

Charity worker Toni Stevens, 32, pleaded guilty to engaging in sexual communications with children at Plymouth Magistrates Court. He is confronted by 'paedophile hunters' on camera. Stevens was spared a jail sentence by being handed a 12-month jail sentence, suspended for two years, and told to complete an accredited sexual offender programme, sign the Sex Offender's Register and made the subject of a Sexual Harm Prevention Order.

Key to the process is spelling out that the "child" is underage, so it is vital that paedophile hunters make it clear to potential abusers that the person they think they are talking to is a child under the age of 16. Messages tend to be saved both with screenshots and with digital chat logs to provide concrete evidence that what was said during online conversations was actually said. Next in their process is to gather evidence of grooming. It is vital that hunters do not appear to be "fishing" for salacious comments, so they wait until the suspected groomer makes worrying advances on their own.

Paedophile hunters often snare their targets by allowing them to arrange a meeting with the "child". It is then that they confront the suspect on camera and show them their messages, sometimes having called the police already. In 2018 evidence used from the vigilantes was used to charge suspects in at least 150 cases, according to figures obtained under the Freedom of Information Act by the BBC. Data from two-thirds of England and Wales' 43 police forces showed this was up seven-fold from 2015. And in 2017, almost half of all cases against people charged with meeting a child after sexual grooming used evidence from the groups.

But this evidence formed just part of the decision to charge the subject, not the sole reason. in September 2017 a top child protection cop said investigators may have to consider working with the groups. Figures revealed a huge increase in the number of cases where evidence gathered by paedophile hunters is being used. More than 44 per cent of cases of meeting a child following sexual grooming used this evidence in 2016, compared to just 11.3 per cent in 2014.

Campaigners

Numerous brave people have campaigned to highlight Asian grooming gangs, endeavouring to have these monsters prosecuted by the law but yet have been persecuted by Communists because they sought to protect white children from sexual exploitation by informing the public by vocalising their concerns.

Tommy Robinson

Although I am critical of Robinson's promotion and links to Zionism I am definitely on side with him against grooming gangs, he is a brave man to have faced off what he has to expose them.

Tommy Robinson speaking at rape of Britain documentary premier in Telford. Sat. 29th January 2022

“Tommy Robinson’s documentary about Telford shows that the criminal Justice system in this country has sunk to unheard of depths of ineffectiveness, subversion and incompetence, if not wilful neglect. It is hard not to come away in despair of yet more examples of police forces failing to address one of the most enduring and apparently intractable problems of our times: The abuse of young, predominately white girls by men of predominately Pakistani origin across the whole country.”.

Ex Deputy Chief Constable Mike Speakman reacts to the Tommy Robinson Documentary “Rape of Britain”.

A few Communists and Labour Party officials turned up to oppose him, as they believe our children to be irrelevant.

Communist counter-protesting Tommy speaking out against Asian grooming gangs.
Communist Bill Ayers and Bernardine Dohrn archetype, obviously excluded from racial alienation.

“Ahead of the airing of the documentary, veteran Richard Inman delivered a rousing speech in which he condemned the disgraceful far left who incredibly chose to protest against the revealing of corrupt police, drug dealers, pimps and child rapists.”.

Early 2022 whilst Tommy Robinson made speeches at the rape of Britain documentary premier in Telford, he was counter protested by Communists and Labour supporters keen to have his voice silenced. Anne Marie Waters (For Britain Party) spoke with Tommy Robinson against Asian Grooming Gangs.

Members of the public gathered to protect victims house from criminal damage.

On new years day Robinson appealled to British patriots to come to the aid of a grooming gang victims family, who were being threatened and intimifated in the town of Telford, where one of the most depraved rape gangs was located. Police had confirmed "three seperate incidents in Telford on Thursday 30th December 2021. Two of these were suspected of arson and one an incident of criminal damage".

Victims house targeted with criminal damage, this is what living in fear looks like.

Robinson released photos of the attacks on victims cars and house, meant to intimidate the witnesses from testifying against the rape gang. Approx. 40 British patriots rallied to defend the victim’s family’s home on New Year’s Eve. They have now been relocated to a secret location.

Tommy Robinson also recently claimed his car was torched in Telford. It is believed to be the third time he has had his car set alight. Police claimed to have stepped up patrols amid growing 'tensions' and 'continued concerns' West Mercia Police confirmed 'a number of incidents' had taken place.

Rape in Pakistan

Punishment for rape in Pakistan under the Pakistani laws is either death penalty or imprisonment of between ten and twenty-five years. For cases related to gang rape, the punishment is either death penalty or life imprisonment. Rape in Pakistan came to international attention after the politically sanctioned rape of Mukhtaran Bibi. The group War Against Rape (WAR) has documented the severity of rape in Pakistan, and the police indifference to it. According to Women's Studies professor Shahla Haeri, rape in Pakistan is "often institutionalized and has the tacit and at times the explicit approval of the state".

Attempted mass rape of a women in Pakistan.

According to late lawyer Asma Jahangir, who was a co-founder of the women's rights group Women's Action Forum, up to 72% of women in custody in Pakistan are physically or sexually abused. According to WAR, over 82% of rapists are family members including fathers, brothers, grandfathers and uncles of the victims. In Pakistan, at least 11 cases of rape are reported everyday, with over 22,000 reports filed 2015–2020; however, at the end of that period in 2020, only 4,000 of those cases had moved to court.

Critics say that the conviction rate in the country is low as rape cases in Pakistan take years to prosecute. Rampant corruption in the lower judiciary and political influence can also help the rapist escape punishment.

Islam

This deals with concubinage, for a more border, descriptive view of Islamic colonialism, view exposure: Islamification.

Concubinage

In classical Islamic law, a concubine was a slave-woman with whom her master engaged in sexual relations. Concubinage was widely accepted by Muslim scholars in pre-modern times. Concubinage was a custom practiced in both pre-Islamic Arabia and the wider Near East and Mediterranean. The Qur'an allowed this custom by requiring that a man not have sexual relations with anyone except for his wife or concubine. Muhammad had a concubine Maria the Copt who had been given to him as a gift by al-Muqawqis with whom he had a son. Classical Islamic jurists did not place any limits on how many concubines a man could have.

In the context of Islamic law, a concubine is a man's slave-woman with whom he has a sexual relationship. The classical Arabic term for it is surriyya, although the terms jariya, ama, mamluka could also refer to a concubine. Various etymologies of the term are proposed for surriyya, each relating to an aspect of concubinage:

Most Western scholarship translates surriyya as "concubine", though some use the term "slave-concubine". Neither the word surriyya nor any dedicated term for a concubine or female slave appears in the Qur'an, which only uses the phrase ma malakat aymanukum in broad reference to slaves in general based on : 4:3 (formed the basis for a later rule that concubines must be freed before their master can marry them), 4:22 (meant that married women could not become concubines even if they were a slave), 4:24, 4:25, 16:71, 23:5, 23:6, 24:33 (mandates that slaves be allowed to marry), 24:58, 33:50 (addressed to Muhammad, refers to women "possessed by the right hand" as "spoils of war", this verse became the basis of allowing captive women to be distributed as concubines), 70:30. The word ama does appear in the Quran 2:221.

Slave-concubinage the most degrading and dehumanizing form of prostitution became a prominent hallmark of Islamic tradition well into modern age. The Ottoman sultans maintained a harem full of women until the empire was dissolved in 1921. In the princely state of Bahawalpur in Sindh, first to be conquered by Muslim invaders—the last Nawab, who ruled until 1954 before its incorporation into Pakistan, ‘had more than three hundred and ninety women’ in his harem. The Nawab had become impotent early and used all kinds of tools to satisfy his great multitude of concubines and wives. When Pakistani army took over his palace, ‘they found a whole collection of dildos. About six hundred, some made of clays, some bought in England and battery-operated. The army dug a pit and buried these dildos.’ The Arab kings till today maintain sizable harems of some kind.

Conclusion

In 2017, the counter-extremism think tank Quilliam found that 84 per cent of those connected in grooming gang crimes in the United Kingdom were Muslim men with South Asian roots. The report, which documented testimonies from grooming gang members during court proceedings, found that the men calculatedly targeted white girls for their sexual abuse as they were seen as “easy targets” compared to girls from their communities, who they felt should be “protected”. Karen, whose name we also changed to protect her identity, told how she was first raped aged just 12 by a man after being lured to a Birchills flat under false pretences.

One piece of research carried out by the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command (CEOP) in 2011, used police, local authority and other children’s services data and found that 30 per cent of possible offenders of ‘street grooming’ were white men compared with 28 per cent who were Asian. This asserts the conclusion, in this case, that there are more white male groomers; but there are approximately 21 times the number of white people to South Asian people in the UK. So, if we factor in the population differences, and assume that the data relates to the population as a whole, this 28 per cent of Asian men needs to be multiplied by 21 to balance up with the proportion of white men.

In March this year (2021) the home secretary Priti Patel introduced a new requirement for police forces to collect ethnicity data for those arrested and held in custody as a result in their suspected involvement and group based child exploitation, twenty years too late.

He says "characteristics" as the word "ethnicity" has been tabooed, the suffering of our children at the claws of migrant grooming gangs continues to be silenced by political correctness by those trusted to keep watch, by those who claim and are voted in to represent our interests and well being of our families, of our people.

Advice and Information

Child sexual exploitation involves situations, contexts or relationships in which a person under 18 is given something, such as food, accommodation, drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, affection, gifts or money in return for performing sexual activities or having sexual activities performed on them. It can also involve violence, coercion and intimidation, with threats of physical harm or humiliation.

Common patterns

In all cases of child sexual exploitation (CSE), the person exploiting the child or young person is able to create the impression of authority over them in some form. This could be because of their age, gender, intellect, physical strength or economic situation.

Sexual exploitation of children can start through the use of technology, without them immediately realising. For example, they might be persuaded to post images on the internet or via mobile phone without immediate payment or personal gain.

Violence, coercion and intimidation are common, with a particular vulnerability of the child or young person being used against them. This can make the young person feel as though they have no choice but to continue the relationship.

Warning signs

Signs of a child or young person being in an exploitative relationship can vary. Some examples are:

If you suspect a person of carrying out child sexual exploitation, or think someone you know has been a victim, or may be soon call the police non-emergency number, 101. If someone is in immediate danger of harm, call 999.

Advice and Information was copied from the Greater Manchester Police website.

25/2/2024