Sobbing mum reveals young daughter ‘wanted to die' after she was ‘drugged & raped by 3 men who lured her into car'
Ivan Turtak, 38, Kevin Horvath, 25, and Ernest Gunar, 27, are accused of passing the teen around "like a receptacle" after targeting her in an
Asda
car park.
The trio, who were "complete strangers", allegedly offered her a cigarette before
driving her in Horvath's
Skoda
to Turtak's flat in Dover
, Kent.
She was then moved taken to Gunar's caravan in Folkestone where she was drugged and raped, Canterbury Crown Court heard.
The girl finally managed to escape the alleged
horror
ordeal two days later - by which point her family had reported her missing.
Her mum wept as she revealed the moment she discovered her daughter had been allegedly "kidnapped, drugged and raped".
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She told jurors: "[My daughter] was absolutely terrified.
"She told me she wanted to die.
"She went very withdrawn, a completely different child."
The mum, who can't be named, said her partner had gone to pick up the schoolgirl after she was found in Dover wearing different clothes to those she was last seen in.
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He told her the girl was allegedly attacked by three men - prompting the mum to immediately phone the police.
She said: "The clothes she came home in were not the clothes she was wearing when she went missing.
"I made her take them off and put them in a bag for the police. And I made her put the first urine sample in a pot.
"I knew that if I took those measures, that these men [accused of raping her daughter] would be found."
In his evidence, the girl's dad said she described being taken to a "dirty caravan" with "yellow curtains" where there was a discussion about trafficking her abroad.
He told the court she managed to make her escape in the early hours of the morning after the men fell asleep.
The dad continued: "She said she ran for ten minutes solid. Then she saw a sign 'Welcome to Dover'."
Jurors heard previously how the three men are accused of 'targeting and exploiting' the girl after enticing her into a car at the Asda.
She was then given drugs to 'facilitate her compliance', forced into sexual acts and raped, the court heard.
The girl was also told she would be killed if she tried to run and had a naked photo taken of her in the shower, which Turtak has admitted.
Prosecutor Hannah Llewellyn-Waters said: "We say that she was passed around and treated effectively as a receptacle for their own sexual gratification, and the defendants' conduct was callous, degrading and it was entirely exploitative.'
After his arrest, Turtak denied any sexual activity, telling police: 'I have my own wife and I love her. I don't do such things to children.'
While Horvath told officers he had sex with the girl but claimed she told him she was 20 years old.
He has admitted three charges of rape and one of assault by penetration, while Gunar has admitted rape.
Turtak denies rape of a child, while Horvath denies sexual assault of a child.
Gunar denies assault of a child by penetration, sexual assault of a child and two offences of rape.
The trial continues.
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Ivan Turtak is one of three men accused of raping the girl
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