'The first time they had sex with me I was scared. Next time I got so drunk it didn't matter': Agony of girl, 13, 'groomed and raped by gang of men'

Kabeer Hassan 

A 13-year-old girl was plied with alcohol and repeatedly raped by a gang of men, a court heard yesterday.

She was one of number of schoolgirls targeted by the gang of 11 men, who gave them drink and drugs before they raped them.

The vulnerable children were passed among the group and sometimes forced to have sex with several men in one day.

The young girls, who all came from broken homes, were often too incapacitated by drink or drugs to be able to fend off the men, it was alleged.

The jury heard one 13-year-old girl became pregnant by one man and had the baby aborted, while another teenager claimed she was raped by three men while she was being sick over the side of the bed.