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A total of 20 men from Huddersfield, Sheffield, Bradford and Dewsbury were convicted of participating in the violence.
A grooming group in Huddersfield targeted dozens of underage girls and raped and abused them for years. A mother tells about the terrible abuses her daughter suffered.
"Once, she went home and her neck was completely black with bites.
"I had an idea of what was going on because I would see his underwear … but these men have a grip on your child and there is nothing you can do other than to have a baby." ;be there."
Such was the daily reality of a family that has been fighting for years to free their daughter from the grip of the attackers.
At 13, she was not particularly stressed. Her mother remembers a "female girl who adored wearing pink barrettes", "very calm".
But, as she was dragged into a shabby world, she changed.
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"Her hair is so tight over her head, her clothes have changed, her underwear has also changed," said her mother.
"There were big curling earrings and she started putting on makeup and listening to that music that I did not recognize.
"All the time she was at home, her phone was constantly in her hand."
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The victims were "used and abused at will" over a period of seven years, from 2004 to 2011
A pattern of behavior began to stick.
She was missing regularly at school, disappeared every weekend and left her parents in a frenzy until they received a hysterical call in the early morning.
Each time, their daughter was abandoned and left on her own way to join her family.
At home, the young man was bombarded with dozens of phone calls and texting.
Her parents locked the doors and windows to try to protect her, but she threatened to hurt herself with a knife.
"One time we tried to talk to her and bring her home," said her mother.
"She was saying 'I have to go, you do not understand'.
"I said" do you like it, make us understand "and she said," They said that if I did not do what they say, they would rape you in front of a father ".
"I was speechless, I thought that if it was the kind of attention that these authors had on your child, then you have no chance."
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Desperate to "silence her," her father took her out of the country for several weeks.
But when she came back, the men and their demands did the same.
"She had gone home completely disoriented, we had a habit of sitting in turns and sitting all night with her, making sure that she was lying on her side. did not know what she had had.
"She was amazed, I always had the habit of saying what your name is, what is your date of birth, do you know what day it is?
"Then she slept until waking the next day, got up, showered, and went out again."
His parents were constantly calling the police and approaching their MPs.
With the support of the charity Parents Against the Sexual Exploitation of Children, they kept a logbook, but the police told them that without "fictional evidence" nor the girls would go to school. expressing, nothing could be done.
"Some police officers were nice, but some of them blamed the victim or blamed us as family."
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It has been said in court that many girls are socially isolated and thus become "easy targets for abuse"
At home, the impact has been considerable. The girl's brother had trouble sleeping and spent the night staring out of the bedroom window so that she would come home the next day falling asleep in class.
The specter of men's influence threatened to create divisions at home, but the family did not bend.
"It made us stronger, it was abandonment, we used to say we do not let it go, we can not give up."
Their daughter escaped when she finally became pregnant with one of the assailants.
With the support of her parents, she kept the baby. His mother describes how his daughter looked at the child and said that it saved his life.
Subsequently, the men disappeared, but the trauma that they caused remained. Now a young woman, she sleeps with a light on and takes medicine.
But thanks to his courage, the attackers are behind bars.
A senior police officer contacted the family after hearing the girl's mother interviewed on the radio.
This led her daughter to testify and to interview other girls.
"I am so happy that we have been taken seriously, that we have not been judged or abandoned this time," said his mother.
"I am so proud of all those girls who came forward and were so brave.
"I hope that they can now move on."
