Thirteen men have been convicted of a string of child sex crimes in Bristol involving the abuse, rape and prostitution of teenage girls.
Bristol Crown Court heard one victim, aged 16, was assaulted by five Somali men after she was moved to the city while in the care of another authority.
Her 14-year-old sister was violently raped by one member of the same gang.
The inquiry led to police uncovering another gang of Somali origin who had been abusing four other girls.
The four teenagers were paid £30 or given drugs, alcohol and gifts to perform sex acts on older men from the Somali community.
The court heard some were persuaded to have sex with other gang members as they were told by the gang it was Somali "culture and tradition" and "men always have sex with each other's girlfriends".
One 13-year-old victim was raped four times by three different men in a Premier Inn in Bristol city centre.
A serious case review is now being carried out.
Exploiting girls
The thirteen men, all from the Bristol area, were convicted of charges including rape, sexual activity with a child, facilitating child prostitution, trafficking and paying for the sexual services of a child.
Six were jailed following a trial during the summer. The remaining seven were convicted on Wednesday.
Details of the two cases - which showed grooming and abuse dating back to 2011 - can only now be revealed after reporting restrictions were lifted.
The first trial centred on a group of drug dealers from Easton in Bristol and their exploitation of primarily one teenage girl.
She had been moved into a flat on her own in the city and left almost unsupervised by social workers from outside the area.
The second trial focused on another group of young men and their grooming and subsequent sexual abuse of young girls.
Tried in July and sentenced for up to 13 years in jail:
- Mustapha Farah, 21, Liban Abdi, 22, and Arafat Osman, 20, were each jailed for 13 years for paying for the sexual services of a child and supplying Class A drugs
- Abdulahi Aden, 20, was jailed for 13 years for rape and supplying Class A drugs
- Mustafa Deria, 22, was found guilty of rape and was jailed for seven-and-a-half years
- Idleh Osman, 22, was jailed for 10 years for facilitating child prostitution and supplying Class A drugs
Tried in November and due to be sentenced on Friday:
- Sakariah Sheik, 21, Abdirashid Abdulahi, 21, and Jusuf Abdirizak, 20, were found guilty of rape
- Mohamed Dahir, 22, was found guilty of causing child prostitution
- Omar Jumale, 20, found guilty of having sex with a child
- Said Zakaria, 22 was found guilty of rape and having sex with a child
- Mohamed Jumale, age 24, found guilty of sex with a child
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