Man who ‘married’ care home girl, 15, guilty of sex abuse

At an Islamic wedding ceremony, a 15 -year -old girl and a man who “married” are eight men who are guilty of sexual crimes against him.

The sacrifice was groomed and sexually abused by men from the age of 13, and this Bradford continued while he was at the child’s house and heard a hearing.

A Bradford Crown court jury was told to a “wedding” to Raja Zulqurean in the early 2000s.

Zulqurean, 43, was found guilty of rape and immoral attack and was sentenced to at least 18 years of imprisonment in May, but it was increased to 23 years by the judges of the Court of Appeal.

The BBC may report the prisoners of eight British Pakistani for the first time after reporting restrictions have been changed.

Bradford Crown Court heard that Zulqurean forced the victim to wear Islamic clothes and to eat halal diet and stopped seeing his family because “believers”.

At the hearing, it was said that he sometimes locked a cellar on a property in Bradford, sexually harassed and deprived him in food, education and medical terms.

The sacrifice told the BBC: “This was much more than a grooming case. It was an institutional scandal and nobody cared about my welfare.

“I was married to an abuse. How can a child marry? Social services made it possible,” he said.

The BBC understands that the victim was questioned by the police because of suspicion of malicious intentions by the police, former Key Social Worker, but no other procedure was done and did not comment more to the BBC.

The woman contacted Basarat Khaliq, one of the BBC, about the child’s sexual exploitation in the BBC Look North News report in 2019.

44 -year -old Khaliq, who was already in prison for sexual crimes during the report, was found guilty in Bradford Crown Court since the rape and appropriate attack this year and waiting for a penalty.

BBC Social Workers’ home care documents seen by the children’s home, the victim “late at night with the Asian men out of the staff and the staff did not report about where” he said.

The woman told the BBC: “I was in care, but I was never protected and the systems that were to protect me provided my abuse.”

Police records showed that the victim lost 101 times between 2002-2004.

A social worker said the court was transferred to the police weekly to the police and the car recording plates until a night until a night.

The woman who has the right to anonymity for life, said the effect of giving evidence was destructive.

“When I came forward, nobody told me how to reduce my mental health, how to affect relationships with my family, and how to affect my brain thoughts,” he said.

“I feel more trauma than I did when I was a child because I have experienced it over and over again in my 30s and I never stopped.

“It was just emotional discomfort.”

The victim’s lawyer David Greenwood criticized the actions of social workers and police in the early 2000s when the abuse was carried out.

“The staff in the children’s house knew that these serious crimes were not only dependent on this girl, but also to others.” He said.

He continued: “The police had to be there right there, and the girls should probably have moved away from that place.”

The sacrifice said other girls in the child’s house complained about sexual exploitation.

“A lot of girls were reporting something at that time, I’m not the only one,” he said.

“The women who have justice in the last 10 or 15 years are just a particle of the girls abused in Bradford and Keightley.

He continued: “There are too many victims that are not heard.”

A Western Yorkshire Police Spokesman said that since the beginning of the 2010s, power has “investing and improved significantly in the protection capability and” taking a proactive and meticulous approach to explore previous events “.

“The work, which has undertaken many years of investigations, has resulted in hundreds of perpetrators who are currently sentenced to long prison,” the spokesman said that many investigations are still in progress.

“Susan Hincliffe, the leader of the Bradford Council, said,” The council and other agencies in our district have serious failures in the form of action and apologized for it, “he said.

“They didn’t protect the victim as it should be,” he added.

Hinchclifffe said the victim’s experiences were “in -depth looking” during an earlier examination of child sexual abuse in the region.

He said he was fed into the findings Independent investigation of child sexual abuse throughout And the agencies had acted locally to “protect children better” here and now.

In total, eight people were sentenced in the Bradford Crown court in connection with the sexual abuse of the victim:

• Raja Zulqurnean 43 from Bradford was found guilty of 10 rape and nine inappropriate attacks and was sentenced to 23 years in prison
• 45 -year -old Basarat Khaliq of Bradford was found guilty of three rapes and four inappropriate attacks and waiting to punish him
• 39 -year -old Muhammad Naheem from Bradford was found guilty of three inappropriate attacks and is waiting to be punished
• 40 -year -old Safraz Ahmed Latif from Bradford was found guilty of four inappropriate attacks and is waiting to be punished
• 42 -year -old Wajid Hussain from Bradford was found guilty of an inappropriate attack and awaits to punish
• 39 -year -old Nadeem Ali from Bradford was found guilty of two immoral attacks and is waiting to punish
• 43 -year -old Mohammed Imran Akram from Bradford was found guilty of two inappropriate attacks and waited for punishment
• 39 -year -old Muhammad Shezhad Hussain from Keightley was found guilty of two rapes and three points of immoral attacks and expected to punish him

In July, he announced that he will become prime minister A full national legal investigation of care gangs In England and Wales.

Sir Keir Starmer said that Barones Louise Casey accepted the suggestions of a control to the data and evidence of group -based child sexual abuse to the nature and scale of the nature and scale.

The investigation is expected to include new local investigations that will have the power to give evidence and to force witnesses.

• If you are influenced by sexual abuse and sexual abuse or violence, help and support details in the UK BBC Action line.