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Friday, August 30, 2019
Sick S O B's ......Five men jailed for a total of 63 years for abusing young girls in Rotherham
Five men jailed for a total of 63 years for abusing young girls in Rotherham
Aftab Hussain, 40, was sentenced to 24 years in prison, and Abid
Saddiq, 38, to 20 years by the judge at Sheffield Crown Court, who
described Saddiq as a “cunning and determined sexual predator”.
Masaued Malik, 35, was jailed for five years; Sharaz Hussain, 35, for
four years; and one man who cannot be named for legal reasons was
jailed for 10 years.
Malik was told that his sentence will follow on from a 15-year term he is already serving for similar offences.
The men were convicted of a number of child sexual abuse offences,
including rape and sexual assault, as part of an investigation by the
National Crime Agency (NCA).
The NCA believes 1,510 teenagers were exploited in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. (PA)
Judge Michael Slater said that, after sitting through the trial of
the five men, he was “quite satisfied” that the “relevant authorities”
were well aware of the way vulnerable teenagers in the South Yorkshire
town were being targeted for sexual exploitation more than a decade ago.
Judge Slater described this as a “lamentable state of affairs”,
saying that the authorities at the time were at best “totally
ineffectual” and, at worst “wholly indifferent”.
The NCA has said it believes 1,510 teenagers were exploited in the town during the period between 1997 and 2013.
Friday’s sentencing followed the latest trial to arise out of
Operation Stovewood – the massive National Crime Agency (NCA)
investigation into the sexual exploitation of teenagers in Rotherham
between 1997 and 2013.
A total of 20 men have now been convicted as a result of Operation
Stovewood and the NCA has said it believes 1,510 people were victims in
the town.
Judge Slater praised the eight victims mentioned in Friday’s hearing,
including one who sat in court for the sentencing and who said in a
statement read to the court: “They took my childhood away.”
The judge said: “Nothing I can say to you can restore those
childhoods of which you were so cruelly deprived by the actions of these
defendants and others.”
He added that he was “particularly concerned” to hear that a number
of complainants “expressed feelings of shame, guilt and self-loathing in
relation to what happened to her and by extension to her family”.
He told the victims: “It seems to me the time for such wholly
unjustified but understandable self-criticism and soul searching is
over.”
The judge said the women should instead be praised for the
“incredible resolve and bravery” they each showed to bring the men to
justice and how they “stood up to ensure that what happened to her
should never happened to young girls in the future”.
During the five-week trial, the jury heard that girls were targeted
due their vulnerability and were given alcohol and drugs before some
were raped by multiple men.
Violence was sometimes used to ensure they complied, the court was told.
Referring to the defendant who cannot be named for legal reasons, the
judge said: “I cannot think of a worse violation of a young girl by
those who purported to be her friends.”
Another man who cannot be named for legal reasons, who was also found
guilty of offences earlier this week, will be sentenced at a later
date, as will a seventh defendant, Mohammed Ashan, who pleaded guilty to
sex offences at a previous hearing.
The NCA was invited in following the Jay Report which shocked the
nation in 2014 when it outlined the scale of the offending against
children in the town.
The agency now has more than 200 people working on Operation
Stovewood, which had a budget last year of just under £12 million, and
is looking to increase this as it works towards recruiting a staff of
250.
The agency said it has now engaged with 313 victims and survivors in the town and has identified 190 suspects.
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