A man at the centre of a child sex exploitation ring raped a sobbing under-age girl before telling her: "Don't cry - I love you," a court heard.
He allegedly plied the vulnerable schoolgirl, who had run away from home and was under 16, with vodka to make her "comfortable and relaxed" and showed her pornography before he is alleged to have sexually attacked her on a bare mattress in a room above a takeaway shop.
The court heard how the man expected sex in return for the alcohol he had bought her.
During an interview, the girl told officers: “He said it was part of the deal - “I buy you things and you give me things.
“I was scared. I didn't want to do it. He's an older man. He just said: 'Please, please be good friends.'
“He said to lay down on the bed because I would feel more relaxed. And I did.
“I tried to get up and he said: 'You have to do it.' I was crying while he was having sex with me.
“He started saying: 'Don't cry - I love you,' and all of this.
“Afterwards, I washed myself and I went downstairs.
He said: 'Have you been crying?' I said: 'Yes because of what you have just done to me'."
The incident in 2008 was one of a series the girl outlined to police just weeks later, a court heard.
She gave the statements after being arrested at a takeaway following a confrontation with the older man.
The jury has already heard that the Crown say it was 'regrettable' that the police took no further action at that stage.
The Crown say her alleged attacker was a 59-year-old man said to be at the centre of a sex exploitation ring involving girls as young as 13.
The man, who cannot be named for legal reasons, and 10 others all from Rochdale, deny a series of sex offences at their trial at Liverpool Crown Court.
They are accused of sexually exploiting five girls by molesting them and providing them to other men for sex as far afield as Bradford.
The men, according to the crown, used an older girl to help introduce them to other girls in return for cash.
The defendants, some of whom worked as taxi drivers, were known by nicknames, including Master, Tiger, Car Zero and The Ugly One, among the girls they are accused of abusing.
On the second day of the trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the jury was played a series of lengthy video interviews of the girl which took place at the end of 2008 and the beginning of 2009.
The teenager sobbed as she told an officer during an interview she had been repeatedly molested at a takeaway.
She told officers the older man had taken her to a flat in Oldham where she was again plied with drink and forced to have sex with two men, one after the other.
On another occasion, the older man forced her to have sex with a second man and then the older man paid her £20 to "keep her mouth shut", the court heard.
When the girl told the older man she didn't want to carry on, the court heard he is said to have told her: “In his country, you are allowed to have sex with girls from the age of 11.”
The jury heard on another occasion the girl was taken to a house in Rochdale, where she was expected to have sex with four different men.
After she was taken to a bedroom to have sex with the first, she slapped the man, who kicked her, and she ran off.
Kabeer Hassan, 24, Abdul Aziz, 41, Abdul Rauf, 43, Mohammed Sajid, 35, Adil Khan, 42, Abdul Qayyum, 43, of Ramsay Street, Rochdale, Mohammed Amin, 44, Qamar Shahzad, 29, Liaquat Shah, 41, and Hamid Safi, 22, are charged with conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children under the age of 16.
They have all pleaded not guilty along with the 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons. He also denies two counts of rape, aiding and abetting a rape, one count of sexual assault and an allegation of trafficking within the UK for sexual exploitation.
Hassan, of Lacrosse Avenue, Oldham, and Shahzad, of Tweedale Street, Rochdale, also deny rape.
Aziz, of Armstrong Hurst Close, Rochdale, denies two counts of rape and one allegation of trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Khan, of Oswald Street, and Rauf, of Darley Road, both in Rochdale, have also pleaded not guilty to trafficking for sexual exploitation.
Sajid, of Jepheys Street, Rochdale, denies trafficking, two counts of rape and one allegation of sexual activity with a child.
Amin, of Falinge Road, Rochdale, denies sexual assault. Shah and Safi, both of Kensington Street, Rochdale, each denied two counts of rape and Safi has also pleaded not guilty to trafficking.
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