Rotherham ‘grooming victim' was told ‘white girls are for rape'

Telegraph

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A woman said she was told that being rape 'is what white girls were for' when she was attacked as a teenager in Rotherham, a jury has heard.
The alleged victim was about 14 years old when she was raped by Sageer Hussain, who was about the same age as her, and two other men, Sheffield Crown Court heard on Wednesday.
Andrew Bailey, prosecuting, said the girl, who is now in her late 30s, was raped by Mr Hussain, Kessur Ajaib and Mohammed Makhmood between 1999 and 2002.
Describing one of the times the teenager was allegedly raped by Mr Hussain, Mr Bailey told the court she later said: 'He said it was my own fault, I'd led him on.
'I shouldn't have walked around in what I was dressed in. I deserved it and that is what white girls were for.'
Mr Bailey opened the trial of the three men by telling the jury: 'The three defendants are all charged with serious sexual offending of a historical nature.
'The offending all took place in the Rotherham area.'
Mr Hussain is also charged with raping a second teenager.
Victim 'felt overpowered'
Mr Bailey said the first teenager was an 'immature and vulnerable young girl' when she began going to a Rotherham youth club.
He said this club was also frequented by young Asian men, some around her age but others who were older and would ask the girls if they wanted to drink. The older men also gave the girls cigarettes.
The prosecutor said the 14-year-old girl met Mr Ajaib at the youth club and he began to sexually assault her after word got out that she had had consensual sex with a boy of her own age.
Mr Bailey said Mr Ajaib saw this as a 'green light' and the defendant said that 'now she needed to come to try somebody real'.
He told the jury how Mr Ajaib, who was about 18 at the time, allegedly raped her in an alleyway.
'She told him she didn't want to do it,' Mr Bailey said, adding: 'He was a lot bigger than her and she felt overpowered. She realised she had no choice.'
Mr Bailey said this girl was forced into sexual intercourse on 'about five or six occasions', as she was 'in fear of being hurt if she didn't do it'.
'Did not dare tell anyone'
The prosecutor said Mr Makhmood, who was 18 or 19 at the time, raped the same girl in an old graveyard in Rotherham as she fought against him.
Mr Bailey said that he called her a 'slag' and a 'dirty b----' before spitting at her and laughing.
The prosecutor said her parents had split up and her mother was working four jobs, so she had to deal with it on her own. He said she 'did not dare tell anyone'.
Mr Bailey told the jury how Mr Hussain allegedly raped the second complainant in an alley in Rotherham town centre with another male and female present.
All counts denied
Mr Ajaib, 43, denies two counts of rape and one of indecent assault, all relating to the first complainant.
Mr Makhmood, 43, of Falding Street, Rotherham, denies one count of raping the first complainant.
Mr Hussain, 39, formerly of Rotherham, denies two counts of raping the first complainant and one of raping the second complainant.
Mr Bailey told the jury that Mr Makhmood told police that it was a case of 'mistaken identity' and police had 'got the wrong man'.
Hussain told officers the 'allegations were vindictive' and Mr Ajaib made no comment when he was interviewed.
The trial continues.