Jail for men on fringes of Banbury grooming gang that 'treated schoolgirls like meat'
A pair of Banbury men on the fringes of a sordid grooming gang that plied schoolgirls with drink, drugs and cash have been jailed.
Samuel Osei-Bempong’s victim, who fell pregnant to one of the leaders in the gang, described herself as ‘just a bit of meat’ to the men.
Now dad of three Osei-Bempong, 50, was handed 10 years for raping the teenager in the early 2000s. He was convicted of two counts of rape, and cleared of molesting another girl.
His co-defendant, Bashiru Umar, 53, who was arrested at Heathrow Airport on a layover flight from his native Nigeria to New York in April, was found guilty of indecently assaulting a third victim and jailed for three years.
The sexual abuse was carried out in properties in Orchard Close, Woodfield (pictured, today) and Bretch Hill, a jury heard Picture: Oxford Mail (Image: Oxford Mail)
Sending the men down, Judge Michael Gledhill KC described the actions of the grooming gang, whose leaders have fled the UK, as a ‘parent’s worst nightmare’.
“You, on the edges of what was happening, can only have known what was happening. You could not have been unaware of what was going on under your very noses,” the judge said.
“You may not have plied those girls with alcohol or cannabis, you may not have pressurised them to indulge in the sexual activity.
“But what you did was to take advantage of what you knew was going on around you, that these girls had been pre-programmed as it were to regard having sex with these older men as being perfectly normal and acceptable, and you had sexual relations with them.”
Samuel Osei-Bempong Picture: Thames Valley Police (Image: Thames Valley Police)
He said: “In the early 2000s, a group of men living and working in Banbury abused a large number of teenage girls and who were at school together and/or friends, again in Banbury.
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