By John Stevens for the Daily Mail. A gang of Eastern Europeans were yesterday found guilty of subjecting girls as young as 12 to horrific sexual abuse. Two adults and three boys were convicted of rape and sexual assault in what prosecutors described as one of the worst cases they had ever seen. A court heard how the group, of Czech, Slovak and Kurdish origin, groomed five vulnerable girls between 12 and 14 and then abused them in a range of locations, including near a playground, in He did this using the power he had over her at the time, or threatened her, and sometimes he used violence against her.
A child sex gang has been found guilty at the Old Bailey of a series of rapes against five vulnerable girls. Hassan Abdulla, 33, was convicted of four rapes and three counts of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity. Two boys, who cannot be named for legal reasons, were convicted of various counts of rape and sexual assault. A third was found guilty of sexual activity with a child, but cleared of rape.
The Crown Prosecution Service said the case was one of the worst examples of child sex abuse it had ever seen. A team of interpreters were brought in to work on the case, which lasted two and a half months.
The judge will sentence the gang, from Peterborough, on February They were seen as easy targets and exploited by this group of teenage boys and men who abused them for their own sexual gratification. But they have shown incredible strength throughout this process β in particular by giving evidence at court in order to bring these people to justice. We are committed to helping those girls pick up the pieces and move on with their lives.
The Home Affairs Select committee has called on the Government to introduce special courts to ensure child sex attackers are brought to justice. It discovered that some victims found the trial of their abusers more harrowing than their crimes, following marathon cross-examinations by teams of aggressive defence barristers. Investigation: Peterborough City Council said it had called for a serious case review. The latest case comes after seven Oxford men, mostly of Pakistani heritage, were convicted at the Old Bailey last year of running a paedophile sex ring.
