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It was the moment they had been waiting for. As teenage girls, they had been ruthlessly manipulated before being raped by older men, utterly powerless to stop what was happening to them.

Now, as adult women, the tables had been turned. They had been listened to - and believed. After being 'badly let down' by the authorities, their courage and determination to see justice done had brought them to this point. The same men who had cruelly and systematically taken advantage of them, now all about 20 years older, were finally paying the price.

Girl A and Girl B, as they are known to protect their identities, were watching on as seven men all received lengthy jail sentences. Girl B sat, supported by a police officer, facing her abusers directly as they were held in the dock. She

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