Rape or sexual assault: what do I do now?

Rape or sexual assault: what do I do now?

TEGAN Wagner was just 14 when she was violently raped by a gang of brothers in 2002.

More than 16 years later, she and another victim of the Pakistani-born rapists have started a campaign to have them deported.

In a new petition on change.org, Ms Wagner, 30, described how the attackers approached her after her friends drove her to a house party in Sydney’s western suburbs all those years ago. She was just a teenager and had never been kissed before or drunk alcohol.

“I was subjected to the most horrifying experience a woman can endure, gang-raped over and over again by four Pakistani brothers, scared they would stab me to death if I did not submit,” she wrote in the plea to Immigration Minister Peter Dutton to deport the convicted men to Pakistan.

The renewed focus on the attackers — known as the Ashfield Gang Rapists — comes as one of the brothers, known as MMK, who was 16 at the time of the attacks, was released on ­parole from prison yesterday.

In April 2004 he was sentenced to a maximum of 22 years for nine counts of gang rape.

“He arrived in Australia from Pakistan in 2000 and was raping teenage girls within two years but because he was given citizenship before he was caught, our laws mean he gets to stay here,” Ms Wagner wrote.

“I do not want this man and his brothers to live in our beautiful country. They do not deserve it. The law needs to change.

“How can these men commit such terrible acts and be allowed to stay if they had only lived in Australia for two years? Their only contributions here are as rapists and living off the taxpayer in jail for their awful crimes against me and others who suffer to this day.”

The notorious group was responsible for a series of violent sexual attacks on at least six girls in the Ashfield area over a six-month period in 2002.

The mother of another victim — identified only as Y. I — also addressed Mr Dutton in the petition saying her daughter “still lives with the emotional devastation” of the attack.

“She has tried to hurt herself on numerous occasions and even tried to kill herself,” she wrote. “These men destroyed her life and because of it, have destroyed mine. They stole my girl from me.”

Mr Dutton said legislation proposed to parliament last year to strengthen citizenship require­ments had been blocked in the Senate by Labor and the Greens.

“If I could kick them out tomorrow, I would. They’re horrible individuals,” Mr Dutton told the Seven Network.

“I’ve cancelled the visas of 3500 people who have committed crimes, including 44 people who have committed rape or sexual offences. If I could kick them out of the country tomorrow, I wouldn’t hesitate.”