A TWISTED teenage girl acted as recruiter for the Newcastle grooming gang - luring vulnerable girls from the streets to be drugged and raped by a succession of older men.

Carolann Gallon was the only female member and only white person in a child sex ring that was exposed after a mammoth investigation involving 450 suspects and hundreds of young victims.

7 Carolann Gallon was just 17 when she joined the evil Newcastle grooming gang Credit: Facebook

7 She lured vulnerable underage girls to sex parties where they were drugged and passed round to be raped Credit: Facebook

7 Left to right and top to bottom: Abdul Sabe, Habibur Rahim, Badrul Hussain, Taherul Alam, Hassan Ali, Nadeem Aslam, Eisa Mousavi, Prabhat Nelli, Mohibur Rahman Credit: PA:Press Association

7 Left to right and top to bottom: Abdulhamid Minoyee, Jahanger Zaman, Monjur Choudhury, Mohammed Azram, Yassar Hussain, Saiful Islam, Nashir Uddin, Redwan Siddquee, Carolann Gallon Credit: PA:Press Association

Today it was revealed lesbian Gallon joined the gang aged just 17 and hosted noisy late night parties involving groups of Asian men.

She also befriended girls and lured them off the streets for the men to prey on.

Her role was to bringing fresh victims into the vile "sessions", which were also held in the city's West End and were attended by the paedophiles "every single day" for years.

Underage girls were plied with booze and drugs before being passed around from one man to another for sex.

Gallon became central to the police investigation, which can be reported after she and 17 men were convicted of offences including rape and child trafficking at a series of trials.

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Officers were at first unsure if Gallon was working with the abusers or was one of their victims, reports the Daily Mail.

The decision to charge her went all the way to the Director of Public Prosecutions before it was decided she was an active part of the gang and was not herself a victim.

Gallon, now 22, admitted three counts of trafficking children for the purposes of exploitation and will be sentenced next month.

Frightened neighbours in a council block say they have been trying to get Gallon removed since she was charged in 2015.

7 Carolann Gallon was the only woman among a gang of 18 convicted of abusing white youngsters Credit: ncjMedia

7 Gallon admitted three charges of trafficking children for sexual exploitation Credit: ncjMedia

7 Investigators fond she was not a victim and was actually a key member of the child sex ring Credit: North News and Pictures

One mum in the block of maisonettes in Newburn, Newcastle, told the Mail: "We have been very concerned about her living here ever since she was charged.

"Those of us with kids are very worried by her association with the kind of people she has connections with.

"She has men round to her flat and has held noisy parties until late at night, they are always Asian men.

"There has been a campaign to get her out but she is still living here two years later."

Those prosecuted were mostly British-born men of Bangladeshi, Pakistani, Indian, Iraqi, Iranian and Turkish heritage.

Northumbria Police has come under fire for paying a convicted child rapist £10,000 to spy on the gang.

Chief Constable Steve Ashman defended the tactic after child protection experts said they were "appalled".

Mr Ashman also said Asian communities must do more to shame predators.

He told the BBC today: "In some communities, we’ve got to the point where it’s acceptable for people to behave in this manner and that’s where we need to focus the efforts if we’re going to prevent this happening in the future.

“It has to be driven out in terms of its social acceptability.”

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