In 2015, a grooming group including six males was sentenced to a cumulative 82 years in prison for grooming and raping vulnerable girls, who were coerced into sexual acts in exchange for a ‘McDonald’s meal, a milkshake, and a cinema ticket.’
The heinous paedophile Aylesbury Grooming Gang, active from 2006 to 2012, involved numerous rapes of a child under 13, child prostitution, and the administration of a chemical to incapacitate a girl for the purpose of sexual exploitation.
On September 7, 2015, the nefarious Aylesbury Grooming Gang was ultimately held accountable. Vikram Singh, Asif Hussain, Arshad Jani, Mohammed Imran, Akbari Khan, and Taimoor Khan received prison sentences ranging from three years to nineteen and a half years.
The years of abuse made one victim – referred to only as Child A – feel as though she had been ‘robbed of her teenage years’.
By the time the vulnerable girl was 16, she had been abused by just under 70 men, having initially caught the eye of stall holders in Aylesbury market, taxi and bus drivers.
The relentless abuse made her feel ‘worthlessness’ as she battled depression and alcohol addiction. She told the court at the time: ‘I feel my teenage years were taken away from me.’
Most of the men from the group are likely to be free from jail now, if they were released half-way through their sentence – as is the case for around 90 per cent of criminals sent to jail.
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