Three men who abducted a 13-year-old girl from the streets of London and forced her to become a sex slave are jailed.
Ali (L) was jailed for five years and Uddin for 15 at Norwich Crown Court
Three men who abducted a
vulnerable 13-year-old girl from the streets of London and forced her to
become their sex slave have been jailed.
The girl was subjected to sexual abuse over four days after being
persuaded to travel with the men to Ipswich in Suffolk in July last
year.Mohammed Sheikh, Hamza Ali and Suran Uddin were all convicted of trafficking and sex offences following a trial earlier this year.
At Norwich Crown Court on Friday, Judge Nicholas Coleman said their victim - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - had been left traumatised by the ordeal.
He said: "Instead of helping this girl find refuge, you were all intent on sexually exploiting her for your own ends.
"She was taken to a town she'd never visited, a house she had never been to, in the company of men she had never met.
"All three of you treated her like a piece of meat and passed her about."
All three were placed on the sex offenders' register and Sheikh and Ali could face deportation to Somalia, their home country.
Jurors heard how the men took advantage of the girl's "youth and naivety" to persuade her to get into a van, driven by Uddin.
Prosecutor Riel Karmy-Jones said: "They plied her with drugs and alcohol and made promises that they would take care of her and give her anything she wanted.
"She was treated as little more than a skivvy and she was raped over the course of four days."
Maria Denine, mitigating for Sheikh said the defendants had not been aware of her background or how vulnerable she was.
Mitigating for Uddin, Scott Ivill said his client was married with two children, aged eight and one, and any custodial sentence would cause his family to suffer.
Lindsay Cox, for Ali, said his client was also a married man.
Uddin, 26, of St Matthew's Row, Bethnal Green, London; Sheikh, 32, of Seaton Point in Hackney, London; and Ali, 39, of Chilford Road, Waltham Forest, London, were all found guilty of conspiracy to traffic in the UK.
Uddin was also convicted of two counts of rape and supplying a class B drug to the victim.
Sheikh was convicted of causing a child to engage in sexual activity and supplying a class B drug.
Ali was found guilty of a sexual assault.
A fourth defendant, Abdul Hammed, 46, of Wellington Street, Ipswich, was cleared of supplying a class B drug, two counts of rape and trafficking.
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