Ansar Sadiq jailed for grooming and having sex with underage girl

Ansar Sadiq

A man from Rochdale has been jailed for grooming and having sex with an under age girl.

Ansar Sadiq (born 28/09/1986) was found guilty of engaging in sexual activity with a child at Minshull Street Crown Court on Friday 5 December 2014.

Sadiq, now of Alumwell Road West, Walsall, was jailed for 43 months, made the subject of a Sexual Offences Prevention order and forced to sign the sex offenders register.

The court heard how during the summer of 2012, the victim, who was 15 at the time, met a man she knew as ‘Kash’ through a mutual friend.

This man was Ansar Sadiq.

Over the following six weeks, the victim and two friends would spend time at Sadiq’s flat in Mitchell Hey, Falinge, where they would drink vodka bought for them by Sadiq.

The girls described how Sadiq would keep the door of the flat locked, even when he went out and left the girls inside.

On several occasions the girls would sleep over at the flat, pretending to their parents that they were sleeping over at another girl’s house.

It was during these nights that Sadiq engaged in penetrative sexual activity with the victim, with this taking place several times over the course of the six-week school summer holidays.

Detective Constable Ben Harris of The Sunrise Team – Rochdale’s multi-agency child sexual exploitation team - said: “Sadiq exhibited all the classic characteristics of someone who grooms young people for sex.

“He flattered the victim, bought her alcohol and allowed her to live a lifestyle that her parents would never have allowed, in order to trick her into letting her guard down.

“He was fully aware of how old she was, he knew the girls were on school holidays and that she was under age, but he could not have cared less.

“I would like to commend the bravery of this girl, for her to come forward, disclose and relive the assaults that he committed against her must have been extremely hard.

“I hope now that this sentence goes some way to helping her to resolve what has been an exceptionally difficult time, and that now she and her parents can start rebuilding their lives.”