Solsticewitch13's BOS: Members of Oxford sex ring 'threatened to cut off the face one of their victims and decapitate her baby after she tried to tell police about years of abuse'

Wednesday, June 26, 2013

Members of Oxford sex ring 'threatened to cut off the face one of their victims and decapitate her baby after she tried to tell police about years of abuse'

One victim 'considered suicide' and another 'now suffers from PTSD'
Parents tell Old Bailey how seven defendants ruined daughters' lives
One girl's statement says she is prone to depression and self-harming
Other victim says she suffers nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks
Two-day sentencing hearing for sadistic paedophile ring began today

By Mark Duell
PUBLISHED: 14:01 GMT, 26 June 2013 | UPDATED: 15:15 GMT, 26 June 2013

Members of a sadistic paedophile ring convicted of grooming vulnerable underage girls for sexual exploitation threatened to decapitate the baby of one of their young victims, a court heard today.

The Old Bailey in central London was also told that one of the Oxford-based sex ring’s victims has considered suicide while another suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder as a result of the abuse.

Statements from some of the victims' parents were read out in court ahead of the sentencing of the gang, in which they described how the seven defendants had ruined their daughters' lives.

Evil: Six of the defendants listened from the dock, but the court heard that Mohammed Karrar (left), 38, had refused to come up from the cells. He was convicted last month with his brother, Bassam Karrar (right), 34

The court heard the extent of the girls' psychological damage, with one admitting she is prone to depression and self-harming, while another suffers nightmares, panic attacks and flashbacks.

A statement from the mother of that girl said her daughter developed chronic insomnia and also suffered a minor stroke, believed to have been brought on by the stress of what happened.

She said the family had to leave their home, leading to her daughter receiving a call in which she was threatened with having her face cut off, and relatives having their throat slit and being decapitated.