SCUM JAILED
HUDDERSFIELD is the latest British town to be shamed by a grooming gang scandal.
Sixteen perverts have been jailed for a total of 221 years for sexually abusing girls as young as 11. Here's what we know.
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What is the Huddersfield sex abuse scandal?
Detectives have uncovered hundreds of sex offences committed against vulnerable teenage girls, mostly by men of Pakistani heritage.
Underage girls told how they were raped and beaten by older men who plied them with drink and drugs.
Some young victims were in uniform when gang members picked them up from school gates. Others were targeted at care homes.
One vulnerable youngster, just 12 at the time, was forcibly removed from her care home by a thug who told staff: "I want to f*** her".
Girls were driven to remote areas where they were repeatedly abused by several men at a time.
The abuse took place across Huddersfield "in cars, car parks, houses, a snooker centre, a takeaway, a park and other places".
Families of some of the girls raised the alarm after they went missing.
But social workers failed to take the claims seriously, and police dismissed the girls as complicit in their own abuse.
One girl attempted suicide and another had an abortion after falling pregnant.
Fifteen victims gave evidence in a series of three trials at Leeds crown court.
It was during the second of these trials that former EDL leader Tommy Robinson was accused of contempt for broadcasting live on the case, which was banned by a court order.
More trials are set to follow next year involving 32 men and two women.
But the judge said it was time the public knew what had happened and who was responsible as he lifted reporting restrictions imposed 12 months ago.
It means the guilty men can be named for the first time.
The abuse in Huddersfield follows similar scandals in Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford and Newcastle.
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Who were the child grooming gang and how long were they jailed for?
A total of 20 men have been convicted of more than 150 offences between 2004 and 2011 including rapes, sexual assaults, trafficking, abduction and child prostitution..
Many in the gang were known by their nicknames, including Chiller, Dracula, Bully and Beastie.
Ringleader Amere Singh Dhaliwal, 35, was convicted of 54 separate counts, including 22 rapes, involving 11 girls.
He showered them with attention, plied them with drink and drugs and moulded them for sex before pimping them out to other men.
Judge Geoffrey Marson QC told him earlier this year: "You treated them as commodities to be passed around for your own sexual gratification and the gratification of others.
"The extent and gravity of your offending far exceeds anything which I have previously encountered."
He was jailed for a minimum of 18 years. Seven others convicted with him in January received sentences totalling 105 years.
Judge Marson said: "The way you treated these girls defies understanding; this abuse was vile and wicked.
"As cases of sexual abuse with which the courts have to deal, this case comes at the top of the scale. None of you has expressed any remorse for what you did."
The second trial saw eight members of the grooming gang sentenced to a total of 98 years for a range of similar offences.
One of the group, Nasarat Hussain, 30, raped one of the girls while she was wearing her school uniform when she was just 15.
Another thug, Mansoor Akhtar, 27, who is already in custody for sexual offences against a child, raped a girl who could have passed "for a ten or 11-year-old".
He "plied her with alcohol, shots of pure vodka and ecstasy so that she became intoxicated and unwell" before forcing her to perform oral sex on him, the court heard.
The third trial saw four four men convicted of rape, trafficking, ABH and sexual assault. They will be jailed on November 1.
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Speaking outside court, Detective Chief Inspector Ian Mottershaw praised the "courage and tenacity" of the victims who gave evidence
He said: "First and most importantly, I would like to pay tribute to each and every victim who came forward, firstly to report these heinous crimes, but to go through the gruelling court process which has taken nearly a year to conclude and to bravely give their accounts to us and the court.
"I cannot praise them enough for their courage and tenacity in helping us secure justice for them against these defendants
"I hope the outcomes of these trials will enable the victims to start the process of putting this trauma behind them and reassure any other potential victims that we will treat them with the utmost respect and sensitivity and take positive action against perpetrators."
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