GLASGOW GROOMING GANG JAILED FOR 15 YEARS FOR RAPING AND ABUSING GIRL, 15, WHO THEY TREATED AS ‘SEX OBJECT’
FOUR men who groomed and sexually abused a vulnerable 15-year-old schoolgirl have been jailed for a total of 15 years.Aivars Hauberts, 21, Ailands Aleksanders, 22, Hardis Gindra, 27, and Ludvigs Rudevics.
35, treated the schoolgirl as a sex object.
Hauberts, Aleksanders and Rudevics, who are all originally from Latvia, were found guilty at the High Court in Glasgow of raping her, but continue to deny this.
Hauberts and Aleksanders were each jailed for four years and Rudevics was jailed for six years.
She sobbed as she told of how Hauberts and Alekanders, who were at the party, at a flat in Burnfield Road, Glasgow, on June 3, 2015, raped her.
She said in evidence that she was intoxicated and falling in and out of sleep.
The victim also told the court that Rudevics raped her at a flat in Ardencraig Road, Glasgow, in July 14, 2015, after offering her a place to stay for the night, and that Gindra had under age sex with her in an unknown location on June 13, 2015.
The woman, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she was introduced to the men by a schoolfriend.
She said initially the men were very polite, but added: “They started speaking sexually to me.
Talking about sex and my body and stuff like that,” She said she went with men she knew as Aivars and Ailands and other men to a ground floor flat in Glasgow.
The witness said after drinking alcohol she felt ill and went to a bedroom to lie down.
She said: “I remember seeing some people coming in.
There were three or four people there.”
