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A grooming victim was given up to 10 ecstasy pills before waking up naked on a mattress in a Huddersfield flat, a court heard.

The female, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, told police she was about 12 years old when she was taken to Brackenhall flats in Berry Brow and locked in a room for hours.

Leeds Crown Court heard the girl was taken at midnight from a takeaway by two males - a member of staff known as Little Manny and Mohammed Akram, also known as Kid - and plied with alcohol and ecstasy pills in the back of a taxi.

The complainant said Little Manny, of Bland Street, Lockwood , Huddersfield, dealt the pills, which would come in various colours and have characters such as Shrek on them.

She said the pair carried her into the flat by the arms and brought her upstairs in a lift before throwing her onto a mattress.

The girl told court that she woke up naked the next morning and discovered the door handle had been removed.

She said she started screaming and someone let her out, telling her to make her own way home.

She said: “Obviously I don’t know what happened while I was there because I was totally out of it.”

The court heard how the girl said she felt ‘dirty’ as she walked home. She described how she had initially been groomed with food by Little Manny when she was aged 11 or 12 and subsequently abused by him.

She said he and other men would follow her in a car and tell her to get in, adding: “If I didn’t do what I was told, I’d be getting dragged in the car.”

The child was then taken into care and she alleges that Kid was one of the men who abused her there also.

She said that on multiple occasions he would sneak into her carer’s home and raped and on one of those occasions he was smoking cannabis and hid behind her bedroom door as her carer checked on the smell.

She also mentioned men by the nicknames of Fred and Dracula and a man called Aleem Javaid.

Speaking about a time when she was aged 15, she said Kid and Dracula picked her up in a car, took her to a car park and gave her alcohol and drugs.

She said Kid asked her to perform oral sex on him and when she refused he sexually assaulted her.

The girl also alleged that she was threatened with video footage of her performing sex acts on men.

She also claims that she was raped by Kid and physically and sexually abused by Little Manny in a house in Huddersfield that she was not allowed to leave for a month, adding: “It just got out of hand, more people and more drugs got brought to the house.”

Akram, 33, of Springdale Street, Lockwood, Huddersfield, denies five counts of rape, sexual assault, abducting a child and trafficking for sexual exploitation.

Khalid, 31, of Brook Street, Lockwood, Huddersfield, denies sexual assault and child abduction.

Shahnaz Malik, 57, of St Anne’s Avenue, Ainley Top, Huddersfield, and Naveeda Habib, 40, of Prince Wood Lane, Birkby, Huddersfield, both deny child cruelty.

The trial, which is expected to last two weeks, continues.