Rochdale, UK-she is lonely, like a Adolescent Girl: there are no friends, no boyfriends, and there is not much to do with her parents.
So when a man who is decades older than her pays attention to her, buys her trinkets, and gives her free wine, she feels special.
He then took her to a dimly lit room above a barbecue shop and said she had to return something.
His demands are getting higher and higher: not only make love with him, but also with his friends.
The incident lasted for years until police accused nine men of operating the ring with underage girls.
The story of Girl A, as she knows in court, is tragic in any case, but it also becomes explosive.
Because there is no way to solve this problem: Girls are white, men who treat them as sexual toys are Asian Muslims, and most of them are Pakistani people who grew up in Britain.
Not just Rochdale--
A dozen other Asian Muslim men, accused of grooming young white girls, are slowly being tried in northern England, involving hundreds of girls in total.
Today's Britain is proud of being a tolerant and integrated society in which the case has stripped its skin and exposed the broken ethnic wounds below.
This has also sparked outrage over the country's Muslim minority in Asia, a movement led by far-right groups while the economy is stagnant.
Prosecutor Nazir Afzal said: "You can't break away from racial factors, a British Muslim with a family background in Pakistan has ended years of official indifference to the plight of girls and finally brought the perpetrators to justice.
"It's the elephant in the room.
From a distance, Rochdale looks like a picture --
800 perfect British cityyear-
Old Parish Church
Chad is located above the street, and the Victorian Gothic town hall is just below. its clock tower is like the clock tower where Big Ben is in London.
The defect becomes clear.
Like losing your teeth in a big smile, there are quite a few shops in the city center that are blocked or become pawnshops or dueling "pound shops ", almost all items cost £ 1 ($1 ). 60) or less.
Half a century ago, when the cotton mills in the town flourished, the Pakistani community began to develop.
New arrivals, most of them from poor rural areas, are attracted by the promise of stable work and opportunities to educate children in English schools.
Many mosques became part of the skyline, especially the Golden Mosque, which won several design awards.
Today, Muslim men have beards, decorated hats, and women in black robes and veils often appear on the streets of the city center.
There are nearly 1 million Pakistanis in Britain.
More than any other European country.
The Greater Manchester area includes Rochdale, with about 25,000 people settled.
The government's Equality Commission reported that more than half of Pakistanis in Britain live in poverty, far exceeding the average population, and less than 75% do not have formal savings.
They are facing difficulties now.
The closed store is a double sign
Compared with the rich south, including London, the northern part of Britain suffered a more severe recession. to-do suburbs.
The factory has already closed;
Local newspapers are trumpeting pessimism and doom: the number of homeless people has tripled, youth unemployment has risen sharply, and more people are seeking housing benefits.
Even the local McDonald's in the city center has moved away.
One summer night in 2008, it was in this environment that girl A lost control.
After a lot of drinking, 15-year-
Old-fashioned neighborhood of Haywood's Grill, where she met her boyfriend for the first time.
She started screaming and messed up the place.
When the police received a call, she told them that she had been raped. -repeatedly --
Take her semen.
Dyed underwear as evidence.
Investigators at Greater Manchester Police have concluded that the girl, who is under the age of consent, is telling the truth, but lawyers at the Crown Prosecution Service have advised against criminal charges, the jury may not believe a troublesome, difficult reasoning.
Young girls drink and are sexually active.
The implementation of the situation after being quietly dropped --month inquiry.
Abuse has intensified.
The ring of the predator is growing;
The circle of victims has expanded.
There will eventually be at least 47 victims or witnesses.
Girls drive around at night and are forced to have sex with more and more men in a car or restaurant back house or dirty apartment, sometimes up to five times a day.
The man threatened her if she complained.
There seems to be no chance of escape.
She was trapped in a secret world of sex that happened late at night and most of Rochdale's people were safely hidden at home.
Rochdale's man is not in line with the classic image of a British sex offender-
Most paedophile crimes are committed by white men against boys and girls through the Internet.
However, prosecutors, police, social workers and leading state politicians agree that the "street dressing" in Rochdale is dominated by Asian men.
Ella Cockbain, an expert in Crime Science at University College London, said research shows that most Asian men form a group of criminals working together.
Because of the small sample size and sensitive topics, she carefully chose her words.
"There are clear patterns that come up and it's stupid to ignore them," she said . ".
Mohammed Shafik, a British Pakistani who directed the Ramadan Foundation in Rochdale, I angered some people in his own community, because he advised the police not to actively investigate the case because they were afraid of racism because they were obsessed with "political correctness" at first.
Shafiq says a small percentage of Pakistani men think white girls are worthless and immoral.
Can be abused without punishment.
"They know that if they take a person from the Asian community, they will be discovered soon," he said . ".
"But those white girls can get it, so they think they can get away with it.
"The men on Rochdale's sex ring are only notable when they are ordinary.
They are part of British life but on the edge
Most Brits did not really notice such people when they passed by the street.
Many people are taxi drivers and are used to working.
Take a long night break between fares, they often go late at night
Night kebab outlets offering familiar lamb, chicken and farafei dishes.
Their rental stations and kebab shops are often the only businesses that remain open after the bar closes.
Most people are the first or second generation Pakistanis who grew up in Britain.
Only one person has faced previous sexual charges: The 59-year-old leader, Shabir Ahmed, was accused of repeatedly raping a young girl in another case.
Ahmed, known by the girls as "dad", was convicted last week of 30 rape offences in the case.
Some of them have families and small businesses.
The gang, which included Abdul Rauf, 43, who later claimed he had the experience of a Muslim missionary, which local Islamic leaders thought was completely fabricated.
Some have kept in touch with local politicians.
These people are neither rich nor poor.
On the surface, they have a stable life, but there is no obvious development prospect.
After health workers reported a significant increase in the number of underage girls who claimed to have been sexually abused in the Rochdale area, they were finally brought to justice.
The following year, the new district head of the Crown prosecutor's office, Afzal, overturned the prosecutor's earlier decision and decided to move the case forward in court, with Girl A at the heart of the case. "It was a no-
Afzal told The Associated Press: "I am a brainwave . "
"She is very credible.
The police now have extensive online evidence.
"From rape to conspiracy, 11 men were charged with crimes, and police suspect more people were involved.
The men had such a strong psychological power over the girls, and even during the trial, a girl described the accused as her boyfriend.
Parliament launched an investigation, in part because of reports that abuse was much broader than originally thought.
Afzal said his office was dealing with about a dozen similar cases, including one involving 13 men accused of operating with 24 girls.
Afzal said he, as a Muslim, was sick of these crimes.
"Rape, alcohol and abuse are not part of Islam," he said . "
"Just because they have a beard to go to the mosque, they can't be good Muslims.
"With the opening of the Rochdale case, racial and religious issues began to be made public. One far-
Right-wing protesters hold a sign that mentions the meat that many devout Muslims like because it meets strict religious norms.
"Our girl is not halal meat," the sign says . ".
Key defendant Ahmed fought back in court.
He accused everyone.
A racist white jury
He accused a girl of believing that white people were superior and slandering that they were all greedy people who wanted money.
He accused the white society of ignoring their girls, tolerating and even encouraging their bad behavior.
"You white guys train them in terms of sex and drinking, so when they come to us, they are fully trained," he said . ".
The jury found nine guilty and released two.
Judge Gerald Clifton expressed the feelings of many people, but when he accused these men of believing that white girls were worthless, he did not want to speak out loudly because "they are not yours
He then sentenced them to a total of 77 years in prison.
The verdict further divided Rochdale.
Pakistanis are shocked by the stigma of their community and angry at the voices of these people who call them Muslims.
"They are playing Muslim cards and pretending they are good Muslims, but they are not," said Irfan Chishti . " He runs an educational program in a mosque in the town.
"This is a great sin of Islam.
Punishment will be very severe if Islamic law is in place.
"Even as he discussed the case with other leaders of the mosque Council, about 40 protesters from afar --
The British right-wing National Party held an unauthorized rally on the steps of the nearby town hall.
The far-right forces seized on the case, claiming that some British Pakistanis followed the code they believed to be in place in some parts of the Islamic world that allowed men to have sex with girls under the age of 16.
Louis cusnick, founder of the University of Manchester's Center for Ethnic relations resources, said white residents have become convenient --
Including those far beyondRight Movement
Blame sex crimes on Muslims
"You hear people talking about it, it's about Islam," he said . "
"People say they are Muslim men who think women are inferior and they despise white women so it has nothing to do with the rest of us.
He said: "This view first ignores all the issues that make girls vulnerable, and he cites flaws in the school system and the government --
Supported by a child care system that is neglected and abused.
He also said that the prolonged recession has intensified discontent and that whites and Asians are competing for the same "junk" jobs.
"Blaming Muslims has allowed us to avoid solving these problems," he said . ".
"Once we blame the other side, we think we have a reasonable explanation.
Many in Rochdale are cautious about discussing the case.
Heather Eyre, a 25-year-old graduate student, said the trial seriously affected the city.
"It should be okay if they are Pakistani," she said . "
But it provoked hatred.
Some say they should be deported and some in the Asian community say the jury is racist. Then the far-
The right group came in. . .
This case is good for England's defensive league.
First of all, tell the girl in the police abuse incident, now a 19-year-old young woman, who has moved out of the area.
In a brief intensive interview before she withdrew from the public eye, she declined to say that she was guilty of her ethnic nature, but said she was shocked that Muslims would commit such acts.
She said that in 2008, when grooming began, no one was aware of this crime involving Asian men and white girls.
"It's happening everywhere now," she said . ".
"You think Muslims are religious and family --
Good attitude, good people.
That's not what you think. . . I don't know. . .
You just don't think they will.
She said she felt angry and ashamed when the abuse started, then resigned and finally became numb.
"It has been going on for so long after a while and there are so many different men that I don't feel anything about it anymore," she said . ".
"It's just not me anymore.
This is just what I have to do. . . .
Once you get in, you get stuck.
I just think what they did to me was a bad thing.