58 h. ago Asian grooming gang who raped two white schoolgirls and passed them around as 'sex slaves' in Rochdale are jailed for 174 years

Mohammed Zahid, 65, gave free underwear from his lingerie stall at Rochdale Indoor Market to both teenagers, with money, alcohol and food.

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59 h. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang led by 'boss man' who raped two white schoolgirls after luring them in from his market stall are jailed for 174 years

Mohammed Zahid, 65, gave free underwear from his lingerie stall at Rochdale Indoor Market to both teenagers, with money, alcohol and food.

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59 h. ago Ringleader of Rochdale grooming gang jailed for 35 years for rape and abuse

Six other men sentenced to terms of up to 29 years after two girls treated as ‘sex slaves’ from the age of 13 Seven men who groomed two vulnerable teenage girls in Rochdale and treated them as “sex slaves” have been jailed for between 12 and 35 years.The ringleader, Mohammed Zahid, 65, of Crumpsall, was given the longest sentence of 35 years. He was convicted of raping two girls, identified in court only as Girl A and Girl B, on multiple occasions. He was also found guilty of offences of indecency with a child and procuring a child to have sex. Continue reading...

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60 h. ago Rochdale Asian grooming gang 'boss man' who raped two white schoolgirls is jailed for 35 years

Mohammed Zahid, 65, gave free underwear from his lingerie stall at Rochdale Indoor Market to both teenagers, with money, alcohol and food.

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60 h. ago Seven predators locked up for 174 years after two girls groomed and raped in Rochdale

Mohammed Zahid, the only defendant to have abused both girls, was jailed for 35 years

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60 h. ago Rochdale grooming gang 'boss man' felt 'untouchable' as he's jailed for raping girls

A man found guilty of grooming and raping two schoolgirls with other men in Rochdale has been sent to jail as the so-called 'boss man' was said to feel 'almost untouchable'

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4 d. ago Brazen Rochdale market stall holder 'Boss man' who groomed and raped two girls felt 'almost untouchable'

Mohammed Zahid is one of seven men facing justice

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4 d. ago LIVE: Seven men who groomed and raped two girls in Rochdale face justice

They were found guilty at a trial earlier this year

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6 d. ago I was raped & passed around 50 men in grooming gang from aged 12 – cops walked in during sex assault but arrested ME

A GROOMING gang survivor, who has told how she was raped and abused by over 50 Asian men from the age of 12, says she is desperate for justice but does not trust it will ever be delivered. Jamie Leigh Jones, who has bravely waived her right to anonymity, told The Sun how gangs of...

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6 d. ago My mum was raped by a grooming gangs predator when she was just a schoolgirl

Jodie Sheeran was just 14 years old when she was raped by a member of a grooming gang, and died in 2022 having never found justice. Now, the family say they have again been 'misled'.

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2 w. ago Shocked by Epstein’s birthday book? That culture was everywhere before feminism | Rebecca Solnit

Feminism exposed the ubiquity of child abuse, rape, sexual harassment and domestic violence – and helped fight that cultureI was there. I kept the receipts. I remember how normalized the sexual exploitation of teenage girls and even tweens by adult men was, how it showed up in movies, in the tales of rock stars and “baby groupies”, in counterculture and mainstream culture, how normalized rape, exploitation, grooming, objectification, commodification was.The last Woody Allen movie I ever saw was Manhattan, in which he cast himself as more or less himself, a dweeb in his mid-40s, dating a high school student played by Mariel Hemingway. She was my age, 17, and I was only too familiar with creeps, and the movie creeped me out, even though it was only long afterward that I read that she said he was at the time pressuring her to get sexually involved with him in real life.Rebecca Solnit is a Guardian US columnist. She is the author of Orwell’s Roses and co-editor with Thelma Young Lutunat...

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4 w. ago Rotherham groomer who raped two young girls after plying them with alcohol and drugs is jailed for 19 years

Obaidullah Omari, 46, targeted the vulnerable girls, aged between 13 and 14 years old, from 2003 to 2004.

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4 w. ago Man who groomed and raped two teenage girls in Rotherham jailed for 19 years

Obaidullah Omari, 46, from Sheffield, targeted the vulnerable girls, who were aged between 13 and 14 at the time of the abuse.

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