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Members of a Romanian-Albanian gang have been sentenced to prison terms ranging from 18 months to 14 years at Newcastle Crown Court.
Newcastle Crown Court heard how four Romanians and an Albanian targeted girls in Saltwell Park, Gateshead, between 2015 and 2019, sexually harassing and raping them.
One of the six victims was a 14-year-old girl who became addicted to cocaine given to her by the gang and was then sold for sex, prosecutors said.
Called Girl B to protect her anonymity, she told the court that "I don't know if I'll ever live a normal life. I'm anxious all the time, especially if I'm alone." She added that she felt overwhelmed and cried often.
Judge Tim Gittins addressed a message to the girls who suffered the abuse. "I hope they think of themselves, as I do, as survivors, not victims," he said.
Codrin Dura, 27, was sentenced to 13 years in prison for two counts of rape, three counts of sexual activity with a child, attempted rape, blackmail and sexual assault, all in relation to a girl known as Girl A to protect her identity. Dura was also found guilty of two counts of raping a second girl, Girl B, and was convicted of organising the commission of a child sex offence and supplying Class A drugs.
Leanoard Paun, 24, was sentenced to 5 years and one month in prison for sexual activity with a child and one count of rape in relation to Girl B, two counts of organising to commit a sexual offence with a child, distributing an indecent image of a child and supplying Class A drugs.
The court heard the offences were committed when Pau was between 15 and 17 years old, and Judge Gittins said he had sought to “demean” his victims and had used alcohol and drugs to harass them.
Bogdan Gugiuman, 44, was sentenced to 14 years in prison for three rape charges relating to Girl B and was convicted of supplying Class A drugs. The judge said he showed "no expression of remorse" for what he did to the girl, who was 14 at the time.
Albanian national Klaudio Aleksiu, 28, was sentenced to 6 years in prison for one count of raping Girl B and supplying Class A drugs. He was 21 and 22 years old at the time of the offences.
Stefan Ciuraru, 23, was sentenced to 18 months in prison for four counts of sexual assault on girls B, C and D, sexual activity with a child, girl E, and inciting a child, girl F, to engage in sexual activity. The judge said Ciuraru, who was between 15 and 16 at the time of the crimes, had "relentlessly targeted" his victims and felt he had the "right" to behave in this way.
He added that the nationalities of the defendants were “irrelevant to the sentencing process” and the age of most of them at the time of the commission of the criminal offences imposed “a significant limitation on the sentences imposed”.
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