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A gang of men who plied young girls with alcohol and drugs before sexually abusing them have been found guilty of a series of crimes. Eight men had gone on trial accused of a catalogue of offences alleged to have occurred in Rochdale.
Two girls were abused in the town over several years in the mid 2000s. The pair were passed around by the gang and treated as 'mere objects’ for them to ‘use, abuse, humiliate then discard', Minshull Street Crown Court heard.
The crimes only came to light in 2015 after one victim, now aged in her 30s, told how she’d been ‘abused daily’. She claimed they would be ‘feeding me alcohol and drugs... and pass me on to their friends.”
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Following a three month trial, five men face jail sentences for their role in the abuse. Mohammed Ghani, Insar Hussain, Jahn Shahid Ghani, Martin Rhodes and Ali Raza Hussain Kasmi will be sentenced later this year.
Three men were cleared of all wrongdoing. Ikhlaq Yousef, Aftar Khan and Mohammed Iqbal were discharged from the dock.
The girls were abused as teenagers. Prosecutors said the men exploited the ‘young, vulnerable and damaged children’. He said not all of the men knew each other, but that the gang was ‘centred’ around 38-year-old Mohammed Ghani, known as ‘Gunny’.
"The men would provide the girls vodka, drugs and apparent affection in order to persuade them that they were genuinely liked by the men, and not just being used for sex," prosecutor Neil Usher said. Girl A went on to be sexually abused over a period of years.
She believed she was in a ‘genuine relationship’ with Ghani, who would 'offer her out' to his friends for sex. Ghani would tell her that he’d
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