Asian grooming gang victim was raped by 300 men before she was 15 and often ‘ten at once’
Richard WheatstoneThe Sun
AN Asian grooming gang victim has told a court how she was raped by 300 men before turning 15 and was often attacked by around 10 men at a time.
The girl, who is now an adult, was plied with drink and drugs before being driven around for sex with older men across the north of England.
Gul Riaz, 42, was part of an Asian grooming gang jailed for raping girls as young as 13 Credit: MEN Media
She was a victim of a seven-strong gang from Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, found guilty of raping two girls from the age of 13 and 14 in a campaign of abuse lasting more than 10 years from 1995.
Leeds Crown Court heard how the young teenager was raped on 'grubby mattresses', in parked cars and in local parks.
Usman Ali, 34, was sentenced to eight years for rape Credit: MEN Media
Giving evidence from behind a screen, she said the seven defendants were the only men she could identify out of around 300 she'd been forced to have sex with as a teenager.
She said she was supplied with alcohol, ecstasy, cannabis and cocaine before being attacked in Bradford, Dewsbury, Huddersfield and Manchester.
The woman said: "It was 300 guys, it was a number like 200-300 I remember doing.
"It could be ten at once, one after the other, and I’m crying, but no one can find the men.
"They all did it. There were loads of men who did it, they all acted the same.
“I was a child. I would have been drunk, and thought I had to do it."
Prosecutor Kate Batty told how the terrified teenagers were "systematically groomed and exploited" by the men.
They were viewed as "objects to be used and abused at will", she added.
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Banaras Hussain, of Shipley, West Yorkshire, was convicted of one count count of rape against one victim and jailed for nine and a half years.
Usman Ali, 34, of Huddersfield, was convicted of two of counts of rape against one victim and jailed for eight years.
Gul Riaz, 44, of Huddersfield, was convicted of one count of rape and two counts of indecent assault against one victim, and one count of rape against the other.
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Abdul Majid, 36, of Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, was sentenced to 11 years for rape.
A 36-year-old man, who cannot be named, of Huddersfield, was convicted of one count of rape against one victim and jailed for eight years
A 30-year-old man, who cannot be named, of Huddersfield, was convicted of one count of rape against one victim and caged for four years.
Thirty-four men have already been convicted in relation to Operation Tendersea, and received jail sentences totalling 377 and a half years.
It is the single biggest group of convicted rapists in the same area.
And almost every one is a Pakistani Muslim. The Quran gives them permission to do as they like with a girl who is under their power.
‘Mockery of the law!’ Indian gang rape & murder convicts get yet ANOTHER execution delay, triggering rage on social media
FILE PHOTO. © Reuters / Ajay Verma
A court in Delhi again deferred the convicts’ execution “until further orders” on Monday, pushing the date indefinitely into the future following a long series of delays in a case nearly eight years in the making. Though the Delhi government has already recommended the rejection of convict Pawan Gupta’s final remaining plea, according to PTI, many online were up in arms over the hold-up regardless, arguing it made a joke of the law.
Though the other three convicts in the infamous ‘Nirbhaya’ case have exhausted their pleas, Indian law stipulates that those convicted of the same capital offense must be executed together. With Gupta making one last appeal directly to President Ram Nath Kovind, the court was again forced to put off the hanging of the whole group.
The convicts’ counsel, AP Singh, has also come under fire online for his fervent legal defense of the four men, with one netizen fuming“Let me spit on your advocacy.”
Swati
@Swati3883
Again Our law fails to hang rapist just shame on our law which provide such provision which protect rapist and criminal even after all India know the truth, Shame on that lawyer who faught for rapist, #hangrapistpublicly ,#shootNirbhayarapist,#Lawshames ,#NirbhayaCase
Tushar Rajneesh Sood
@swagysood
Irony of Indian Law System.
The convict was juvenile so he should be released. Was he not in his senses when he was indulge in crime.
Shame on these people who support criminals. #ApSingh Same on you.
Aj release kroge next day tere ghar ghus ke ye kand krega. #NirbhayaCase
mahi
@KombaEte
Biggest jokes on our Judiciary system.
If you (Judges) can't hang the rapist please quit your job.
We are ready to replace#NirbhayaCase
RAM KUMAR
@ramkr03
This is the judicial system of my beloved country. Truly everything should happen on spot instead of waiting for so called judge and judiciary system. I have completely lost faith on this so called HC / SC & whole judiciary system. Justice delayed is Justice denied. #NirbhayaCase
A few cooler heads weighed in as well, however, urging for patience as the case plays out in the courts.
Avi•ator
@avinamadhari
Difficulty for the judiciary is not passing order for this particular case but setting precedence to a citation that'll be used with wrong intent in future.
There is no doubt the Hon. Court has the right perspective on this case.
Nirbhaya will get justice.#patience https://twitter.com/PrabhjotIAS/status/1234455592275607552 …
Prabhjot Singh IAS
@PrabhjotIAS
My Lords please hang them now. Have some mercy on this lady also. It appears that judicial system is helping the rapists in fact and her mother is suffering. She is also a citizen and have rights. #Hangthemnow #Please https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1234452518937038848 …
Aussie border officials in coronavirus quarantine after child-like sex doll discovery
By Sally RawsthorneThe Sydney Morning Herald
Eight Australian Border Force officials are in quarantine for coronavirus after executing a search warrant at the home of a man whose partner returned from South Korea and has been self-quarantined.
Border Force began investigating Brent Hazleton, from Albion Park, south of Wollongong, earlier this year, after a package arrived in Australia that allegedly contained a child-like sex doll.
Albion Park man Brent Hazleton. CREDIT:INSTAGRAM
He was charged with two counts of intentionally importing child sex dolls into Australia and one count of possessing child abuse material.
Possessing a child-like sex doll is punishable by up to 15 years imprisonment, following amendments to the Criminal Code in September last year.
Mr Hazleton's girlfriend Bethany Alwert, who is believed to have interacted with arresting officers and Border Force officials, has been in self-imposed quarantine after returning from a trip to South Korea.
On Wednesday, she was coming to the end of the 14-day quarantine period and was displaying no symptoms. Border Force has since put the eight officers involved in the search warrant into quarantine as they await Ms Alwert's test results.
Ms Alwert has not been charged with any offences. Mr Hazleton was granted bail by police to appear in Port Kembla police station on April 22.
It comes two months after a Singaporean student in Perth (8th story on link) was charged with the same offences.
Australian Border Force investigations acting commander Nicholas Walker said Border Force was seeing increasing numbers of child-like sex dolls arriving in Australia.
"Child-like sex dolls are an emerging form of child abuse material," acting commander Walker said.
"Dolls that are manufactured for a sexual purpose that depict a child under the age of 18 are classified as 'objectionable goods' and are prohibited from being imported into Australia.
"Tackling child abuse material is an operational priority for the ABF as part of its role in protecting the border from individuals who may pose a threat to the community."
Maldives High Court overturns decision
to drop a child sexual abuse case
Fathmath ShaahunazThe Edition
High Court on Tuesday ordered a lower court to open a rejected case against a man accused of sexually abusing a minor.
The case filed at the magistrate court on an island in Lhaviyani Atoll, charges a man with sexually abusing a 12-year-old child on the road. The lower court dropped the case last year, stating that the evidence submitted by the prosecution did not meet the balance of probability standard specified in the Criminal Procedure Code.
Following the state's appeal of the magistrate court's decision, the High Court's verdict on Tuesday stated it was the prosecution's responsibility to submit sufficient evidence to make a substantial case, and that acquitting the defendant during the preliminary stage of the trial was not appropriate.
The High Court asserted that the state had submitted substantial evidence to warrant a trial. Further noting that the appellate court had previously issued a ruling that suspects must be tried if substantial evidence was submitted against them, the High Court stated that the magistrate court's decision to drop the case was in violation of that ruling.
Presiding Judge Hussain Mazeed, and judges Abdulla Hameed and Shuaib Hussain Zakariyya unanimously agreed to annul the magistrate court's verdict, with the order to open the trial again.
No bail for T&T couple on 46 child sex charges
Daily Express
THE COUPLE who faced 46 charges in relation to alleged sexual abuse of a 16-year-old have been denied bail.
Randhir Singh, 44, and his companion, Chandroutie Seepersad, 43, faced a magistracy registrar at the Couva Magistrates’ Court on Monday.
Seepersad faced 16 charges of causing or encouraging the seduction, prostitution or sexual penetration of a child, three charges of failing to prevent cruelty to a child and four charges of failing to report the abuse of a minor.
Singh faced 23 charges of sexual penetration of a child.
The alleged offences spanned an eight-month period.
The two were arrested last Wednesday. Charges were laid by Constable Titus of the Central Division’s Child Protection Unit (CPU). Sgt Ramjitsingh was the prosecutor during their court appearance.
Singh was represented by attorney Andre Koomalsingh while Seepersad was unrepresented during the matter. Singh and Seepersad will return to court tomorrow.
'True evil': Jailed Perth 'swingers' mum known to child protection for years before horrific abuse uncovered
WA Today
The tragic circumstances of a young girl abused by her "swinger" parents have been heard in a Perth court, with documents revealing child protection services repeatedly tried to intervene in the years before the abuse was eventually discovered.
The term 'swinger' is completely inadequate here. These were not swingers; they are sick perverts.
The girl's biological mother and stepfather, who cannot be named to protect the identities of the children, were handed some of the harshest penalties ever seen in a West Australian child sex abuse case in the District Court on Tuesday, sentenced to 28 and 26 years imprisonment respectively.
Detectives arrested the couple in 2018. CREDIT:WA POLICE
In sentencing the woman it was revealed the sexual abuse of the young girl had started when she was just three months old, at the hands of her own mother's first partner.
The court was told the woman had a "dysfunctional and traumatic background", including her own sexual abuse and drug and alcohol use, and was put into foster care at 14.
She began a relationship with her foster brother and the couple began living independently when she was just 15.
When she gave birth to her daughter in 2006, the woman already had a criminal record including a conviction for common assault.
As a result, the couple were subject to a number of attempted intervention programs in the community at the insistence of Child Protection Services to try and halt the woman's drug and alcohol use, but according to the court sentencing transcript, they had no effect on her.
However, when her partner was 20 and the woman's daughter was just a newborn, he was convicted of sexual abuse against the girl, and unlawful wounding and grievous bodily harm against the woman.
And despite the woman's previous criminal record and repeated attempts by child protection services to intervene, the young girl was left in her custody.
The circumstances are truly unique. They are almost the worst imaginable. They are in a class of their own.
Justice Bruce Goetze
The cycle of abuse continued when the mother met her new partner in 2011, and Justice Goetze said the writing had long been on the wall about the girl's welfare.
"You ... knew that [redacted] had been previously offended against, and you would think that you would have been more alert to protect your children after that," he said.
Justice Goetze said while the girl was being abused she began to accept the behaviour of her mother and stepfather as within "the realm of normal conduct in a family".
The court heard on one occasion, the stepfather told the young girl he had a surprise for her seventh birthday, only for him to reveal the "gift" was to have sex with the four adults in the room.
"She was wholly corrupted into accepting this horrendous conduct as being normal when it most certainly is not," Justice Goetze said.
The girl and her brother were taken by the Department of Child Protection in October 2015, but it was another three years before their ordeal was eventually uncovered when a USB drive containing videos of the abuse was found at a short-stay rental in Perth.
Justice Goetze said this was especially concerning as neither the woman nor the man were connected to the property. "Somehow though, the videos got there, so they’ve been disseminated to at least someone connected with that house," he said.
"[The girl] will have to live in fear that there may be other copies of it which at some unknown stage in her life – and she's still very young – will be shown. And she may be recognised in it. "And for her that is, as the state put it, the true evil of the unknown."
Justice Goetze said the prolonged sexual abuse was likely to have a profound impact on the girl, and she would likely not come to terms with the full ramifications of what had happened until she was older.
Her younger brother was deemed "not ready" to make a victim impact statement.
"The circumstances are truly unique. They are almost the worst imaginable. They are in a class of their own," Justice Goetze said. "They are shocking and they’re one of the most serious examples of sex offending within a family to have come before a court in this state."
In a submission on the couple's sentencing, Director of Public Prosecutions Amanda Forrester SC was equally damning. "They have ruined two lives. If their children's lives are not ruined, it won't be anything to do with them. And that is the crux of it. They have just destroyed the childhood of their children," she said.
If you are or have been a victim of sexual abuse, or if you have information about someone being abused, contact police on 131 444.
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