Fears of 'another Rochdale' as police probe 200 cases of child exploitation in West Yorkshire town where girl, 13, was raped by gang who 'lined up' and took turns to attack her
- West Yorkshire Police investigating 179 child sex crimes and 165 suspects
- Force says 100 young victims are being supported in Keighley and Bradford
- Campaigners say that the true figure could be far higher than that
- Asian paedophile gang who raped victim, 13, for year were jailed for 143 years
- Ringleader and drug dealer Arif Chowdhury, 20, fled to Bangladesh to avoid jail
Shocking: Police in an area where a
gang of Asian men led by drug-dealer Arif Chowdhury (pictured)
repeatedly raped a 13-year-old are investigating 179 new sex crimes
Police
in an area where a gang of Asian men were jailed for repeatedly raping a
13-year-old white girl are investigating 179 new sex crimes involving
165 suspects, it was revealed today.
West Yorkshire Police have said today that more than 100 young victims are being supported in Keighley and Bradford.
The force says there are 179 crimes where child sexual exploitation is believed to be a factor under investigation in the city.
Local
child safety campaigner Angela Sinfield has said the 'number is too
high' and believes it is probably far higher because many victims do
not come forward.
'It should not be
down to that child having to make the complaint. At the moment, if the
child refuses to give evidence then the case doesn't come to court,' she
told the Keighley News.
'One
of the biggest problems is that these children don't see themselves as
victims. They'll say that these men are their "boyfriends', even when
these are much older, married men'.
Khalid
Mahood (left), 34, was given an extended sentence of 17 years and Saqib
Younis (right), 29, from Keighley jailed for 13 years at Bradford Crown
Court
Faisal
Khan (left), 27, from Keighley was jailed for 13 years at Bradford
Crown Court and Sufyan Ziarab (right), 22, from Keighley, Yorkshire, for
15 years
Tanqueer
Hussain (left), 23, from Keighley was jailed for 13 years and received a
five year consecutive sentence for the rape of a second underage
victim. Bilal Ziarab (right), 21, from Bradford, was jailed for 12 years
Last
year a gang of 12 Asian paedophiles from the area were jailed for 143
years after they passed a 13-year-old girl around for sex, with men
queuing up to rape her.
Drug dealer
ringleader Arif Chowdhury - who is on the run - and his friends
terrorised the vulnerable teenager and orchestrated most of the other
sex attacks by Asian men he knew.
Chowdhury,
20, who would rape the schoolgirl while laughing in her face, managed
to fly to Bangladesh while on bail in 2012 - a country with no
extradition treaty with Britain.
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