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Four men and two women convicted over child sex grooming ring

Four men and two women have been convicted at Sheffield Crown Court of a range of offences involving the sexual exploitation of teenage girls in Rotherham. Two other defendants were cleared of all charges.

Brothers Arshid and Basharat Hussain were found guilty of multiple rapes and indecent assaults of teenage girls as part of a child sex grooming gang in Rotherham following a trial.

A third brother, Bannaras Hussain, 36, admitted 10 charges including rape, indecent assault and assault occasioning actual bodily harm at the beginning of the trial at Sheffield Crown Court.

Two women - Karen MacGregor, 58, and Shelley Davies, 40 - were found guilty of conspiracy to procure prostitutes and false imprisonment following the trial.

Qurban Ali, 53, was cleared of all the charges he faced except one of conspiracy to rape.

Brothers Majid Bostan, 37 and Sajid Bostan, 38, were cleared of all charges following the trial.

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Young victims suffered 'extreme and protracted' violence

Peter Mann from the CPS said the 'violence was extreme and protracted'.

Victims in the Rotherham child sexual exploitation case suffered "unthinkable physical and psychological" trauma, Peter Mann from the Crown Prosecution Service said following the verdicts.

He said: "These defendants in their differing ways targeted these teenage girls because they were vulnerable and then facilitated their systematic sexual abuse. The abusers then groomed and sexualised their victims, often subjecting them to acts of a degrading and violent nature.

"Some of the violence was extreme and protracted."

Mr Mann added: "Such depravity has no place in our society."

He also said Arshid Hussain played a key role in the sex ring and that his behaviour was "domineering" and "brutal".

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