A victim of a nine-member Bradford Grooming Gang, West Yorkshire, felt as though she was ‘merely a toy to manipulate’ after the perpetrators intoxicated her and sexually assaulted her at the age of 14.
On February 27, 2019, the reprehensible Bradford Grooming Gang was sentenced to a cumulative total of 132 years for grooming and abusing their adolescent victims, who were residing in a children’s home.
One of the victims described it as a case of ‘evident, resolute, and subtle grooming.’ The other victim recounted her experiences of PTSD, self-harm, and suicide attempts stemming from the assault.
Basharat Khaliq, Saeed Akhtar, Naveed Akhtar, Parvaze Ahmed, Izar Hussain, Zeeshan Ali, Kieran Harris, Fahim Iqbal and Mohammed Usman were all given sentences ranging from seven years to 20 years.
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