Nine men, a large number from Rochdale, were today handed a range of convictions relating to a total of eight victims aged between 13 and 23 at the time of the abuse. A tenth man had already been sentenced last September.
Some of the men were convicted for offences against multiple victims and others just one. They were all convicted as part of Operation Doublet, an investigation into child sexual exploitation mainly in Rochdale.
Many of the charges relate to one complainant who walked into a police station shortly after widespread media coverage of the 2012 convictions at Liverpool Crown Court of a number of Asian defendants for grooming white girls for sex in the town.
She told officers that from the age of 14 she too had been repeatedly sexually groomed by a large number of men in Rochdale. She also said that ‘hundreds’ of men would ring her up wanting her to go out and have sex with them.
The victim was said by prosecutors to be an ‘extremely vulnerable young woman’ who had endured ‘a very difficult home life’.
She gave evidence in two separate trials at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, which lasted a total of 15 weeks.
The offences took place in Rochdale between 2005 and 2013. The main complainant in the case, who is now aged in her mid-20s, was present….
Her victim personal statement was not read out at her request. Hussain is believed to be currently in Pakistan after he left the country during his trial:
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