A Leicester Grooming Gang comprising six men was incarcerated after they solicited a vulnerable 16-year-old girl for sexual services in exchange for monetary compensation.
The victim, who was abused and ‘used as a sexual commodity’ in 2012 in Leicester, was left with internal injuries as a result of the abuse.
The vulnerable teen had been drinking, smoking cannabis and self-harming and was needing to make money after her parents threatened to throw her out of the house.
As a result, she started allowing boys at college to pay for sex before she met the men from the Leicester Grooming Gang, meeting the first man at a Dilwai festival.
On August 30 2013, Aabidali Mubarak Ali, Rakib Iacub, Wajid Usman, Hamza Imtiazali, Bharat Modhwadia and Chandresh Mistry were all jailed.
Their sentences lasted between eight months and five years. Their charges included paying for sexual services of a child, facilitating child prostitution and inciting child pornography.
The Leicester Grooming Gang is out of prison and searching for new victims.
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