Child sex abuse trial: Raid cops "arrested young victim, not her abuser"

The alleged victim, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she hid under the bed when officers broke down the door.

She said police found her and identified her by name, before arresting her for possessing an offensive weapon.

The incident made headlines shortly after the publication of the Jay report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham in 2014.

The woman had previous dealings with the police, she said, so officers knew who she was.

In the interview played at Sheffield Crown Court today, she said: “We were upstairs having sex and suddenly the door went in and it was the police.

“I just put a pair of pants on and jumped under the bed, but my legs were sticking out.

"They said: 'Come on, come out. We've just seen you at the station.

“So I was arrested because I had something in my bag which Ash (said to be defendant Arshid Hussain) had given me. I think you call it a truncheon. Then they put me in the police car.”

The woman told police Hussain, also referred to as Mad Ash, first had sex with her, three weeks after meeting him when she was 14.

The last time they had sex she was aged just 15, she claims, when she was pregnant by him for the second time.

Lawyers representing Hussain claimed that he did not have sex with the woman before she was over 16.

The trial continues.