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.
Jurors heard during the seven-week trial Abid Saddiq had seen his victim’s mother in a local market and said: “I f****d your daughter the other day”.
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.
- 2019 Rotherham Grooming Gang
- Abid Saddiq, 38, of HMP Doncaster was convicted of two counts of rape, five of indecent assault, and two of child abduction was jailed for 20 years, with the judge calling the child rapist “determined sexual predator”.
- 2024 Rotherham Grooming Gang
- Abid SADDIQ [DOB: 20/01/1981] formerly of Rotherham, was convicted of three counts of rape and one of indecent assault. He has been sentenced to 24 years’ imprisonment with 12 months’ extended licence.
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.
- https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/uk-news/vile-predator-told-victims-mother-16846135
- https://www.rotherhamadvertiser.co.uk/your-rotherham/breaking-five-men-jailed-for-combined-63-years-for-child-sexual-offences-4330056
Abid Saddiq, 37 and Waseem Khaliq, 33, 2018 charged with Rotherham sexual abuse in the 2000s
19 June 2018
Two men have been charged as part of a wide-ranging inquiry into child sex abuse in Rotherham.
Abid Saddiq, 37, from Masbrough, and Waseem Khaliq, 33, from Sheffield, each face three counts said to have taken place between July 2000 and July 2001.
Mr Saddiq is accused of raping a 14-year-old girl, while both men have been charged with child abduction.
Both defendants are due to appear at Sheffield Magistrates’ Court on 21 June.
Mr Saddiq is charged with rape, aiding and abetting indecent assault and child abduction for the purposes of sexual activity.
Mr Khaliq is charged with indecent assault, aiding and abetting rape and child abduction for the purposes of sexual activity.
They were charged as part of Operation Stovewood, the National Crime Agency’s investigation into non-familial sexual abuse in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-44536367