'We should have had victim raped,' said girl gang thug after stripping and whipping rival, 16, in street | Mail Online
A teenage girl was stripped naked and beaten by members of a notorious girl gang.
The 16-year-old victim was humiliated by a gang known as 'Girls over Men' because she had supposedly 'disrespected' the leader's mother.
Later, one of the attackers said she wished the gang could have got a man to rape their victim.
The teenager was abducted at knifepoint as she walked with a friend in daylight in Stratford, East London, a court heard.
Five gang members took her to an alley where her jeans, T-shirt and knickers were slashed from her body.
The girl was whipped with buckled belts before another girl arrived and snapped the traumatised victim on her mobile phone, texting the images to friends.
The gang fled the alley, leaving the injured girl to wander naked through the streets.
A judge described the attack as 'ferocious, deliberate and chilling'.
He jailed the 17-year-old gang leader for four and a half years and a 16-year-old member for three years.
A third gang member, Sophia Austin, 18, who took the mobile phone pictures, received six months in a young offenders' institution, suspended for one year.
Paris Gentile, 18, who was accused of 'egging on' the beating, was cleared by jurors following a direction from the judge.
Jurors at Snaresbrook Crown Court were shown photos of the girl's injuries.
'They clearly show the indentations of the buckle or motif that was on the belt,' said prosecutor Jonathan Dunne.
He said that while on remand the 16-year-old gang member had bragged to fellow inmates about the attack.
She was overheard by a member of staff telling girls at the Oakhill secure training centre in Milton Keynes that she wished the gang could have got a man to rape their victim.
'She said that photos had been taken and if she could have got one of her boys down, she would have made her have sex,' said Mr Dunne.
The 16-year-old pleaded guilty to causing grievous bodily harm with intent while Austin, of Stratford, admitted causing the girl actual bodily harm. The 17-year-old denied assaulting and stripping the girl, telling police the youngster had taken off her own clothes 'like a flash'.
Giving evidence, she admitted intimidating and pulling the victim's hair but denied kicking, punching or lashing her. She was convicted of kidnapping and actual bodily harm with intent.
Judge William Kennedy said: 'This was a premeditated group attack in daylight in a public place where the vulnerable victim, like you a young woman, suffered a number of injuries which were in totality serious enough to amount to grievous bodily harm.
'She is left with scars and psychological trauma.
'She offered neither provocation nor much resistance, you degraded her by the forced removal of her clothes, the assault was with belts which came to hand at the scene.'
The victim's mother said her daughter, who cannot be named for legal reasons, will live with the horror of the attack for the rest of her life.
The 38-year-old said: 'Every time she closes her eyes she sees what happened.
'My girl was not in a gang, she was an innocent victim.
'We are trying to move away from here. We need a fresh start. The whole family has been affected by this. It is very rough around here. There are lots of gangs and the kids have to be streetwise to survive.'
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