‘I want to see justice’, child sex trial is told
10:00am Saturday 2nd February 2013
http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/bullfinc...trial_is_told/
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A YOUNG woman said it had been “painful” giving evidence at the Oxford child prostitution ring trial, but did it as she felt she was “finally being believed”.
The witness, known as Girl 1, overcame illness to take the stand and finish her evidence after six days at the Old Bailey. She claims she was raped and sold for sex by Kamar Jamil and brothers Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, between 2004 when she was 12, and 2007 when she was 15.
Earlier, the court heard the witness had sex encounters with “hundreds”.
Prosecutor Noel Lucas asked her why she had decided to give evidence after speaking to police last year.
She said: “In all these years when I’ve dealt with many, many professionals, it was the first time I felt I was being believed and the first time someone was going to do something about what had been going on in Oxford for a long, long time.
“An issue I believe may have been covered up, well not covered up but people were not doing their jobs properly and reading between the lines, and many, many people I think have suffered this kind of abuse.
“I decided to go ahead with it because I felt like I was finally being believed about what was happening to me “I want to see justice.
“Some pretty awful things happened to me in my childhood.
“At the time I didn’t feel anyone would believe me and nothing was done about it. There was a lot of self doubt.
“I wanted to see the people who did that to me, and potentially other people, punished for it.”
She told the jury she had found it “difficult” to give evidence and recollect what had happened.
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It must be awful for her having to recall hundreds of "rapes" that she'd rather to forget ..... :sad:
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