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Oxford exploitation trial: Girl 'burned with cigarettes' | |
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An alleged victim of a child sex ring would return home with bruises and cigarette burns on her, a court has heard. | |
Old Bailey jurors were told the girl was taken to houses and flats in Oxford to have sex with men. | |
She is one of six alleged victims of nine men accused of grooming and exploiting children in the city. | She is one of six alleged victims of nine men accused of grooming and exploiting children in the city. |
The men, from Oxford and Berkshire, deny 51 counts relating to girls aged between 11 and 15 from 2004 to 2012. | The men, from Oxford and Berkshire, deny 51 counts relating to girls aged between 11 and 15 from 2004 to 2012. |
'Out of it' | 'Out of it' |
The woman, who was a teenager at the time, told the court she was expected to have sex with up to five men a night, from places including Bradford, Slough and London. | |
She described the alleged incidents as "parties" and said she was given drugs and alcohol. | |
"I think it had already been predetermined that there would be a sexual element to the evening," she told the court. | |
"It seemed like they would encourage each other to take a little bit of what's on offer, that's how it felt. | |
"I would be pretty out of it by the end of it." | "I would be pretty out of it by the end of it." |
The witness described how she would be away from home for up to to eight days at a time at various properties including some in the Cowley Road area which were often "dilapidated, grotty places". | |
She said she was taken there by defendants Kamar Jamil, Anjum Dogar and Akhtar Dogar. | |
'Lost life' | |
The jury heard sometimes the men would get "physically rough" with her. | |
She said she would return home bruised and sometimes with cigarette burns on her. | |
The court heard she also lost a substantial amount of weight, and her bones could be seen through her skin as she would not be given food. | |
On one occasion police took her home after she had been reported missing and her trousers had blood on them, the jury was told. | |
"A lot of it is a lost part of my life," she told the jury. | |
The trial is expected to last until April. The defendants, who are all in custody, are: | The trial is expected to last until April. The defendants, who are all in custody, are: |
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