Child sex abuse trial: young runaway "beaten after refusing sex"

CHARITY founder Karen MacGregor forced a young runaway to have sex with several men in one night and beat her when she refused, a court heard.

The alleged victim, now a woman of 36, claimed MacGregor, now of Barnsley Road, Wath, took her in when she was 14 and demanded she sleep with the men in payment for her keep.

On one occasion when she refused, the witness said, MacGregor left her with a black eye.

In police videos shown to the court, the woman she had met the defendant after running away from a children’s home.

“I was just a mess at 14,” she said.

“I just wanted someone to look after me.

“Karen would say: ‘You can't go until you've paid for what you've got to pay for. I’ve been good to you and spent a lot of money on you.’

“She would get me by the throat and hit me because I didn't want to have sex.

“I got a black eye one time and bumps all over my head.”

The woman says Hussain introduced her to Sajid Bostan at the house, where she was tricked into using heroin until she became dependent.

After first assaulting her himself one night, Hussain allegedly then brought Sajid Bostan into the room.

The woman told police: “Ash said to me: ‘You’ve got to do Saj now.’ I didn't want to say no because I knew I would end up getting hit.”

She says her alleged abusers did not use protection when having sex with her.

She described Hussain beating her after she once visited a sexual health clinic.

“I went for the test and Ash asked me if I had said anything [about the alleged abuse] to anyone,” she said.

“I said no, I had only been for the test, but he hit me in the face. Then he hit me on the head with a vase.”

Asked whether she had ever wanted sex with Mad Ash, she told officers: “Not at first. Then for about two or three months I felt like he wanted to be with me.

“So I didn’t mind him doing what he was doing because I thought he was going to look after me and be there for me.

“Then I realised it was just for himself and for making him and his friends happy.”

Five men and two women deny all the charges against them. The trial continues.

 

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