A grooming gang ringleader and six of his accomplices were handed jail sentences in a case that highlighted serious government failings, including where the social care system branded a 10-year-old girl a prostitute and did nothing to help her.

Seven men, all Rochdale market traders or taxi drivers, have been handed jail sentences after they groomed young girls between 2001 and 2006 to become “sex slaves”. The girls were “passed around” between the men and hundreds of others for “almost incessant sexual abuse” for years, the court was told.

Mohammed “Boss Man” Zahid, 64, identified as the ringleader of this group, ran a lingerie stall at the Rochdale town market, which he used to meet young girls out shopping, before shower

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