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Oxford child sex abuse raids: Seven men charged
From BBC Oxford
Officers from Thames Valley Police made a series of arrests on Thursday as part of Operation Nautical
Seven men have been charged in connection with a major child sexual exploitation investigation in Oxford.
Police officers carried out arrests on Thursday in connection with alleged sex offences against females which occurred between 2008 and 2015.
Six men were charged with the rape of a girl under 16 as well as other sexual offences, while a seventh man was charged with conspiracy to rape.
Six men - all from Oxford - will appear before Oxford magistrates.
They are: Shabir Dogar, 22; Shabaz Khan, 23; Shohab Dogar, 23; Yasin Hamid, 20; Usman Iddris, 22; and Joseph Suraina, 22.
Waqas Hussain, 24, of no fixed abode, will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on 4 April.
Mr Hussain has also been charged with the attempted sexual assault of a girl under 13, as have Shabir Dogar and Shohab Dogar.
The raids were part of what the police are calling Operation Nautical.
A further 10 men were also arrested on Wednesday as part of the same operation
Ten men have been charged with 56 offences following police raids related to child sexual exploitation claims.
Warrants were carried out at addresses in Banbury, Oxfordshire, on Tuesday before further arrests were made on Wednesday.
The men were arrested on suspicion of rape and other offences relating to three females between 2008 and 2015.
Eight of the men - seven from Banbury and one from Birmingham - appeared before Oxford magistrates earlier.
They are Leon Cole, 19; Atiq Hussain, 23; Qamran Hafiz, 24; Abdul Sarfraz, 31; Nasser Younis, 37; Tafail Mohammed, 23, and Marcelo Suarez, 20, all from Banbury, and Ahsan Raza, aged 19, from Birmingham.
They were remanded in custody and are due to appear at Oxford Crown Court on 25 April.
Two other men, Amir Arfi, aged 23, of no fixed abode and Atique Akhtar, aged 23, of no fixed abode, will appear at Oxford Magistrates' Court on 2 May.
Det Supt Paul Hayles, of Thames Valley Police, called it a "complex investigation into non-recent child sexual exploitation" in the town.
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