Six men have been found guilty of a string of sex offences relating to the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Rotherham more than a decade ago.
The girls, who were all under 16 and ‘vulnerable and craving attention and love’, were deliberately targeted for the sole purpose of becoming sexual objects for the men between 1998 and 2002 in Rotherham, South Yorks.
Jurors heard evidence from the gang’s victims about how the men committed rape, indecent assault and child abduction against them when they were at school.
Sheffield Crown Court heard the men abused their victims between 1998 and 2002.
- Muhammad Doe – Unkown Sentence or Identity! who cannot be named for legal reasons, was also found guilty of offences earlier this week.
- He will be sentenced at a later date, as will a seventh defendant, Mohammed Ashan, who pleaded guilty to sex offences at a previous hearing.
They were jailed at Sheffield Crown Court today (Friday) after being convicted on Wednesday following a six-week trial in relation to 20 offences committed in several locations including Clifton Park and an alleyway near Boots on Howard Street between 1998 and 2002.