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| Rotherham abuse victim 'attacked by own family' | Rotherham abuse victim 'attacked by own family' |
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| A victim of one of three brothers who raped and sexually assaulted 15 teenage girls in Rotherham was attacked by her own family when they discovered the abuse, a court has heard. | A victim of one of three brothers who raped and sexually assaulted 15 teenage girls in Rotherham was attacked by her own family when they discovered the abuse, a court has heard. |
| The details emerged during the sentencing of Arshid, Bannaras and Basharat Hussain at Sheffield Crown Court. | The details emerged during the sentencing of Arshid, Bannaras and Basharat Hussain at Sheffield Crown Court. |
| Arshid, 40, and Basharat, 39, were found guilty by a jury of 50 offences. | Arshid, 40, and Basharat, 39, were found guilty by a jury of 50 offences. |
| Bannaras, 36, pleaded guilty to 10 offences before the trial started. | Bannaras, 36, pleaded guilty to 10 offences before the trial started. |
| Opening the case against Bannaras Hussain, Michelle Colborne QC said he met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him. | Opening the case against Bannaras Hussain, Michelle Colborne QC said he met one victim when she was 12 or 13 and she performed sex acts on him. |
| "He was indifferent to whether she consented or not," she said. | "He was indifferent to whether she consented or not," she said. |
| "When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man." | "When her brothers found out, they were furious with her and would physically assault her because she was involved sexually with an Asian man." |
| 'Pack of animals' | |
| She said Bannaras abused one victim in a car park next to Rotherham Police Station, and told the court how the sister of another of his victims described her sister as a "broken human being". | |
| Ms Colborne said one woman had described the Hussain brothers as "a pack of animals". | |
| Summing up the contents of a number of statements from the women abused by the brothers, she said: "They describe from their teenage years a life in the main of feeling dirty, ashamed and guilty. | |
| "Between them, a plethora of emotional conditions - eating disorders, self-harm, agoraphobia, self-loathing and terminations for many of them from the age of 14 - events they have never been able to put behind them." | |
| She said many of the victims have had relationship problems throughout their lives and have found themselves subjected to domestic violence. | |
| Three associates of the Hussain brothers, their uncle Qurban Ali, 53, Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40, will also be sentenced. | |
| Ali was found guilty of conspiracy to rape, while MacGregor and Davies were convicted of false imprisonment and conspiracy to procure a woman under 21 to become a common prostitute. MacGregor was also convicted of two counts of conspiracy to rape. |