Child sex abuse: Girl, 13, "raped in alleyway, market and park"

A JURY has been played a 2003 video interview of a 13-year-old girl telling police she had been raped — a claim which has only just come to court 13 years later.

In the interview the girl, now aged 27, told police she had been repeatedly raped by Sageer Hussain, who was then aged 17, in Clifton Park and Rotherham town centre.

The 30-year-old is one of eight men accused of a number of sexual offences against the girl, said to have been carried out 2003.

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We are referring to Sageer Hussain as Sageer to distinguish him from his brother Basharat, who faces one charge of indecent assault.

Speaking in April 2003, the girl told police Sageer first raped her down an alleyway near Boots a few weeks earlier.

The girl said: “He was telling me to scream so his mates could hear and they all started watching.”

She added he thought he might leave her alone after that but the next time she saw him he seemed like he had been “taking drugs or something”.

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He then took her back to the same spot, she said, and raped her again despite her protesting.

The girl said Sageer would often threaten her and call her a “white slag”, but on other occasions tell her he really liked her and she was “his girl”.

She told police co-defendant Mohammed Whied watched as Sageer raped her in Whied’s car.

“His mate (Whied) was saying: ‘I have had enough’, and he (Sageer) was saying: ‘No you haven’t had enough’ and he was telling me to scream,” said the complainant.

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The girl said Sageer and his friends all wore the same fake Burberry hat and went to Clifton Park because “there were no cameras there” unlike in the town centre.

She told police he would always take “lasses” down an alleyway that led to a bridge and into Rotherham Market and said he carried out a “violent” and “vicious” rape in the market building.

The girl said: “He said he ‘didn't like girls saying no to him’ and ‘doesn’t accept it so he will do it anyway’.

“And then he took my trousers and knickers off in the market stall.

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“All his mates came and watched saying: ‘It’s our turn next’.

“Sageer was telling me to scream, he wanted everyone to hear it and that I wasn’t being loud enough, I told him I didn’t want to have sex.”

The girl said an unknown friend of Sageer’s held her down and asked if she would perform a sex act — but this did not happen.

She said after the rape ended Sageer told her she better not “tell anyone, the police or anything”.

When she said she wouldn’t, he said “You best not.”

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In the 2003 video interview, the girl told police that on another occasion, when Sageer raped her in an alleyway, he told her she shouldn’t protest because he “always gets his own way”.

She said: “I said: ‘I don't want to do it, leave me alone, can’t you bug someone else’ and he said: “No’.”

The girl told the police officer: “I wished it wouldn’t have happened and if I had been more stronger and pushed him away that it might not have happened.”

Sageer Hussain denies all the charges against him, as do all his co-defendants.

The trial continues.