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| Rotherham child abuse charges: Eight guilty | Rotherham child abuse charges: Eight guilty |
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| Eight men have been found guilty of 16 charges in connection with the sexual abuse of three girls in Rotherham. | |
| The offences happened between 1999 and 2003. | The offences happened between 1999 and 2003. |
| The men, all from Rotherham, are Sageer Hussain, Mohammed Whied, Ishtiaq Khaliq, Waleed Ali, Asif Ali, Masoued Malik, Basharat Hussain and Naeem Rafiq. | The men, all from Rotherham, are Sageer Hussain, Mohammed Whied, Ishtiaq Khaliq, Waleed Ali, Asif Ali, Masoued Malik, Basharat Hussain and Naeem Rafiq. |
| They were remanded in custody at Sheffield Crown Court and are due to be sentenced on 4 November. | |
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| They were found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court, after a jury returned guilty verdicts after more than 17 hours of deliberations in a five-week trial. | They were found guilty at Sheffield Crown Court, after a jury returned guilty verdicts after more than 17 hours of deliberations in a five-week trial. |
| The jury heard how the men "sexualised" their victims and, in some instances, subjected them to acts of a "degrading and violent nature". | |
| One girl and her family told police, their MP and then-home secretary David Blunkett about the abuse, and eventually moved to Spain to get away from the men. |