Child Sex Gang Members Jailed

             Wednesday May 09, 2012

Nine men were found guilty. One cannot be identified for legal reasons

 Wednesday May 09, 2012

A gang of nine men who groomed girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs has been jailed for a combined total of 77 years.

The men were sentenced at Liverpool Crown Court after being convicted yesterday of conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16 and other offences.
Opening his sentencing remarks Judge Gerald Clifton told them: "All of you treated (the victims) as though they were worthless and beyond respect."
The man seen as the ringleader, a 59-year-old who cannot be named for legal reasons, was jailed for a total of 19 years for convictions including conspiracy, two counts of rape, sexual assault and a count of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.

Grooming Trial Sentences

:: Man A - 19 years
:: Kabeer Hassan - 9 years
:: Abdul Aziz - 9 years
:: Abdul Rauf - 6 years
:: Mohammed Sajid - 12 years
:: Adil Khan - 8 years
:: Mohammed Amin - 5 years
:: Abdul Qayyum - 5 years
:: Hamid Safi - 4 years

The defendant was previously banned from court because of his threatening behaviour and for calling the judge a "racist bastard".
:: Read profiles of the gang members
Takeaway worker Kabeer Hassan, 25, was jailed for nine years for rape and three years, concurrently, for the conspiracy conviction.
The 59-year-old ordered the first victim to have sex with Hassan as a "treat" for his birthday. He raped the girl, who was then 15 years old.
Taxi driver Abdul Aziz, 41, of Armstrong Hurst Close, Rochdale, was sentenced to nine years for conspiracy and nine years, concurrently, for trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The married father-of-three took over from the 59-year-old as the main trafficker of the victims and was paid by various men to supply girls for sex.
Married father-of-five Abdul Rauf, 43, was jailed for six years for conspiracy and six years, concurrently, for trafficking for sexual exploitation.
The religious studies teacher at a local mosque asked a 15-year-victim if she had any younger friends and would drive some of the girls to other men, who would use them for sex, despite knowing they were underage.
Mohammed Sajid, 35, was sentenced to 12 years for rape, six years for conspiracy, one year for trafficking and six years, all concurrent, for sexual activity with a child
Known as "Saj", he would regularly ply victims with alcohol before having sex with them at his flat, where groups of men would gather and "pass around" the girls.
Adil Khan, 42, was given eight years for conspiracy and eight years, concurrently, for trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Khan, who is married with one child, fathered the child of a 13-year-old victim who believed she was in love with him.


.Culled from Skynews