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| 20 men found guilty of raping more than a dozen teenage girls in northern England | ||
| 2018-10-20 | ||
| [FOXNEWS] Twenty men in the United Kingdom have been convicted of raping and abusing more than a dozen teenage girls in the northern city of Huddersfield. The convictions are the latest in a series of child sexual exploitation cases in the region. Prosecutors said the men embarked on a "campaign of rape and other sexual abuse" against vulnerable girls between the ages of 11 and 17. The men were found guilty in a series of trials earlier this year. A judge lifted the reporting restrictions on Friday. The sentences have totaled 221 years in prison. Among those guilty was 35-year-old Amere Singh Dhaliwal, whom prosecutors said was the gang’s ringleader. He was found guilty of 54 separate charges, including 22 counts of rape involving 11 girls. He was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 18 years. A judge told him earlier this year: "You treated them as commodities to be passed around for your own sexual gratification and the gratification of others." "They extend and gravity of your offending far exceeds anything which I have previously encountered," the judge continued, according to Sky News. Judge Geoffrey Marson QC, when he sentenced 16 of the men earlier this year, reportedly said: "The way you treated these girls defies understanding; this abuse was vile and wicked." "As cases of sexual abuse with which the courts have to deal, this case comes top of the scale," he added, according to the BBC. Outside the court on Friday, Michael Quinn, the head of complex case unit at CPS South Yorkshire and Humberside, told news hounds the case involved "cynical exploitation of maiden of tender yearss by a group of older men." He said the men "deliberately targeted their victims because of their vulnerability" and "groomed them and exploited them for their own sexual gratification." Similar cases have erupted across South Yorkshire, with the National Crime Agency (NCA) reporting earlier this year that they believe upwards of 1,510 girls are believed to have been sexually exploited in the region over a 16-year period. The NCA said it had identified 110 people suspected of being part of child-grooming gangs in Rotherham, the largest town in South Yorkshire. Huddersfield is located in West Yorkshire. Police officers in Rochdale, Oxford and Newcastle have also had their own child sexual abuse scandals in recent years that follow a pattern grimly familiar to those in Rotherham and Huddersfield. The cases have heightened racial tensions and spurred criticism of both local authorities who failed to protect vulnerable girls and police, who often did not listen to the victims.
[ExaminerLive] From an aspiring pharmacist to taxi drivers, takeaway workers and drug dealers, these are the predatory paedophiles who have shamed Huddersfield with their roles in one of the UK’s most horrific and shocking grooming gangs. They were known by their nicknames and the young victims were often introduced to other men who went on to sexually assault them, rape them, traffick them for others to abuse or try to force them into prostitution. The youngest was just 14 or 15 when he raped one of the victims. Most of them were known to ringleader Amere Singh Dhaliwal and their stories are equally as corrupt and twisted as his. Manzoor Hassan was already serving a seven-and-a-half-year prison sentence for making a schoolgirl work as a prostitute; his younger brother Zahid Hassan worked in a takeaway and groomed a vulnerable child with FOOD and; Mansoor Akhtar was already serving a six-year prison sentence for his part in ANOTHER grooming gang. Here are the horrendous profiles of the 19 defendants who stood trial alongside Dhaliwal. | ||
| Posted by:Fred |
| #9 Well the "people" elected a government of pedophiles so they shouldn't be surprised that they tolerate them in their police force. |
| Posted by: Bugs Thud4877 2018-10-20 20:48 |
| #8 Judge Geoffrey Marson QC, when he sentenced 16 of the men earlier this year, reportedly said: "The way you treated these girls defies understanding; this abuse was vile and wicked." It doesn't defy understanding. If you realize that moslems are being coddled and their ideology is what it is. |
| Posted by: lord garth 2018-10-20 20:34 |
#7 About effin' time the Brits started acting like Brits, IMHO. If they were acting like Brits, the offenders would be picking their parts most private out of a Rutland tree. |
| Posted by: Rob Crawford 2018-10-20 15:47 |
| #6 Parents? Anybody seen parents around? The history of this kind of thing in England is that 1) when the girls reported abuse to the authorities, whether police, social workers, or teachers, they were not believed; 2) when parents reported it they were either not believed or were threatened with arrest for being racist. The Examiner Live report giving the names and details of the 20 miscreants is one of nine stories recently published by the newspaper in the subject, including one tut-tutting about the Islamophobic exaggerations of the “far right”. |
| Posted by: trailing wife 2018-10-20 11:06 |
| #5 Nigel, Nigel, is that you? The wages of guilty elite consciences are paid by the lower classes. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2018-10-20 09:21 |
| #4 Parents? What the Dickens |
| Posted by: KBK 2018-10-20 07:34 |
| #3 Parents? Anybody seen parents around? |
| Posted by: Richard Aubrey 2018-10-20 06:51 |
| #2 The surprise isn't the crime, but that somebody actually got jugged for it instead of the cops looking the other way lest someone cry "ISLAMOPHOBIA". About effin' time the Brits started acting like Brits, IMHO. |
| Posted by: SteveS 2018-10-20 00:40 |
| #1 This pings a zero on the surprise of meter |
| Posted by: Cheaderhead 2018-10-20 00:08 |