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[Ripclawe]

The Times did screw up, they put a G in Zulfar Hussain name. The only other paper who is reporting this is the Lancashire Telegraph(Gannett owned) in any detail.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...wed.men_abducted_vulnerable_girls_for_sex.php

Men abducted vulnerable girls for sex
By Pete Magill

TWO teenage girls were abducted from social services care by older men, who plied them with ecstasy and alcohol and had sex with them.

Zulfar Hussain, 46, from Blackburn, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from Burnley, were both jailed for five years and eight months for "exploiting" the vulnerable under 16s.

Passing sentence, Judge Andrew Gilbart QC said: "This is a truly shocking offence. When young girls such as these are placed in care it can be because they need protection from themselves.

"They need nurturing. They need help."

After the case police said the men were detained as part of Operation Engage, which targets men who groom vulnerable young girls for sex.

And they praised the Keep Them Safe Campaign, launched by the Lancashire Telegraph last year, for raising awareness of the issue and the need for it to be tackled.

Blackburn with Darwen Council said that the community needed to realise there was a problem and take a stand against it.

The court heard that the immigration authorities were currently making efforts to deport Naveed, but not in relation to the current case.

After the hearing, Chief Inspector Alice Knowles said: "This case came about as part of the on-going partnership work with children's services and other agencies looking at sexual exploitation under Operation Engage, which in conjunction with the Lancashire Telegraph's Keep Them Safe campaign has helped us to raise awareness and encourage people to speak out about it.

"These girls were vulnerable and more susceptible to their grooming techniques of offering them drugs and alcohol."

Peter Morgan, the council's children services strategic director, said: "The sentences are a clear warning to others that they will be found and punished.

"Despite this, we are not complacent. We have said, and we continue to say, that the public need to be aware of this problem, and to take a stand against it."

 

[Cerebral Assassin]

Other papers are probaby not reporting on it as they would have done so last year when the men were charged.

 

[oldboy1]

The Times did screw up, they put a G in Zulfar Hussain name. The only other paper who is reporting this is the Lancashire Telegraph(Gannett owned) in any detail.

http://www.lancashiretelegraph.co.u...wed.men_abducted_vulnerable_girls_for_sex.php

A much more balanced article which really puts the The Times piece to shame & exposes it for the crap that it really is.

 

[Ripclawe]

But for the Times story to be untrue, a whole bunch of people would have to be lying including a Labour MP and the chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques.

 

[oldboy1]

But for the Times story to be untrue, a whole bunch of people would have to be lying including a Labour MP and the chairman of the Lancashire Council of Mosques.

It's not untrue, they've just twisted the story to make it more shocking.

If it really was as bad as The Times would have us believe, it would have been covered by a lot more newspapers & at the very least would have been mentioned on one of the news channels.