Mohammed Zahid, 65, ringleader of a Rochdale grooming gang, was this week jailed for 35 years for raping and sexually abusing two teenage girls. Six other men were convicted and sentenced on linked offences between 2001 and 2006. The case is the latest in a decades-long national accounting for the failures which allowed the grooming gangs to target vulnerable girls across Britain, according to the New York Times.

How the abuse occurred

The prosecutors went on to say that Zahid groomed the two 13-year-old girls, both of whom began being abused at this age, with gifts and money before initiating them into sex. The victims were taken to various places where they were raped and given alcohol by rings of local market traders and taxi drivers. Some of the men who were handed down the sentences

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