Pimping Children
From the BBC:
Two brothers from Telford have been found guilty of a string of sexual offences against young girls.
Ahdel Ali, 24, and Mubarek Ali, 29, both of Regent Street, Wellington, were also convicted of controlling child prostitution and trafficking girls.
Between them, the pair were convicted of 25 out of 26 charges and are due to be sentenced at a later date.
Stafford Crown Court heard the offences took place in the Telford area between March 2008 and December 2009.
The jury heard the brothers had sexually abused, trafficked, prostituted or tried to prostitute four Telford teenagers.
Ahdel Ali was also found guilty of raping a girl as young as 13.
One teenager was sold as a prostitute by Mubarek Ali when she was four months pregnant.
'Systematically groomed'The court was told one of the other victims was regularly sold for sex to workers at two Telford restaurants and a Wellington fish and chip shop, as well as to associates of the two brothers.
Giving evidence, the 19-year-old said that from age 16 she had been taken to have sex with men up to four times a week.
Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson, of West Mercia Police, said: "Ahdel Ali and Mubarek Ali targeted these girls because of the vulnerability and then systematically groomed them in such a way that eventually they could exploit them sexually for their own gain and gratification."The trial itself was a scandal.
Earlier on, their lawyer, a Muslim himself, had attempted to force one of the young girls to read details of her sexual abuse into the record in open court:
A judge was forced to intervene after a barrister tried to force an alleged victim of child-sex grooming to read out graphic details of her alleged abuse.
The witness, suggested to be a 'compulsive liar' and a 'wicked woman' by defence barrister Tayyab Khan, is one of seven alleged victims in a sex exploitation trial at Stafford Crown Court.
But the 19-year-old, who cannot be named, left the stand in tears as she was asked to read out her account of an alleged sexual assault on her by her step-father - unrelated to the sex exploitation trial - that she made to police in 2005.
The teenager was asked why she had retracted her claim her step-father raped her when she was 13.
She said when she told her mother, the allegation was reported to police, but she retracted it a day later to protect her 'because I didn't want my mum to be upset', the jury was told.
The alleged victim, the third of the seven alleged victims to give evidence at the three month trial, insisted it was not a false allegation, according to The Times.
Mr Khan suggested she had invented the story and asked her to read out details of the abuse she claimed to have suffered.
Crying, she read out a section of her account, and broke down a second time.
On the stand: The witness is one of seven alleged victims in a sex exploitation trial at Stafford Crown Court pictured
After some members of the jury shook their heads at her distress, judge Robin Onions stepped in and said: 'It's extremely painful for the witness, Mr Khan. Why can't you read it to her?'
Later, Mr Khan said: 'You are a compulsive liar. You have told lies about my client, also?'
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