Seven men have been found guilty of a catalogue of sickening child sex offences after two teenage girls were abused in Rotherham.
The victims – who were aged between 11 and 16 at the time of the offending in the early 2000s, were both in care and were groomed and plied with alcohol and cannabis before being raped or assaulted. The National Crime Agency says they were often collected by their abusers from the children’s homes they lived at at the time before being assaulted.
Jurors at Sheffield Crown Court heard how the attacks would take place at locations around Rotherham including a park, a car in a supermarket car park, a cemetery and even behind a children’s nursery. In one case, one of the girls was taken to a hotel where she was raped by two men. On another, she was locked inside one of her abuser’s homes, raped on at least two occasions and had to escape by climbing out of a window.
Following the nine-week trial,
- Mohammed Amar, 42, of Elizabeth Way in Rotherham, was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault of a girl
- Yasser Ajaibe, 39, of Walker Street was found guilty of indecent assault of a girl.
- Mohammed Zameer, 49, of Richard Road was found guilty of one count of rape and one count of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13.
- Mohammed Siyab, 34, of Stevenson Drive, was found guilty of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13, two counts of rape and trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.
- Abid Saddiq, 43, formerly of Rotherham, was found guilty of an indecent assault of a girl, rape of a girl under 13 and two counts of rape.
- Tahir Yasin, 38, of Burngreave Street in Sheffield was found guilty of eight counts of rape.
- Ramin Bari, 37, of Derby Street in Sheffield was found guilty of four counts of rape.
- Amar was found not guilty of one counts of indecent assault.
- Omar Mahmood, 37, of Grosvenor Road in Rotherham was found not guilty of two counts of rape.
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