A jury sitting at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court, in the UK have been told that a woman who says she was used as a “sex slave” when she was a girl could have been abused by up to 200 men.
Mohammed Zahid, 64, of Crumpsall, Manchester; Naheem Akram, 48; Mohammed Shahzad, 44; Nisar Hussain, 41; Roheez Khan, 39; and Arfan Khan, 41, all of Rochdale; and Mushtaq Ahmed, 67, and Kasir Bashir, 50, both from Oldham all stand accused of sexually abusing the then underage child and another girl.
The court heard that the accused men were all working as traders or taxi drivers at the time of the alleged offences.
The men, who deny the charges, are accused that they – on dates between 2001 -2006 committed sexual offences – including rape and indecent assaults – against two girls in Rochdale who were then aged 13 years.
Girl A alleges that she was targeted by the group and that her phone number had been passed around among them, and others.
She told the court that she had difficulty placing an exact number on the men who abused her, saying, “There was that many it was hard to keep count.”
The prosecution alleges that the then teen girls were approached by the men and plied with drugs and alcohol before being abused.
Girl A denied that she had been pressured to provide names to police after previously claiming that she had been abused by around 100 men.
The trial continues.