A victim of the Rotherham paedophile ring said the authorities made her feel like she was being 'racist' when she reported her rape as a teenager.

The woman, called Emma, said she was 'silenced' when she gave her traumatic account to police as a 13-year-old and was eventually forced to leave the country in fear of reprisals from her attacker.

Emma made the startling revelations during an interview with Katie Hopkins on her LBC radio show.

A victim of the Rotherham paedophile ring said the authorities made her feel like she was being 'racist' when she reported her rape as a teenager (file photo)

She said: 'As soon as I said the names, I was made to feel as though I was racist and I was the one who had the problem.

'That continued all the way through to the Jay Report coming out in Rotherham.

'I knew I wasn't racist, but that was used as a way to silence me.'

After a child sex abuse investigation in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, 18 people being were jailed for child sex offences between 1999 and 2001, with sentences totalling more than 280 years.

There was public outcry when a subsequent report revealed that 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, with the authorities failing to act over fears they would be labelled racist.

Mother-of-one Emma, who was a victim of multiple rapes, claimed she was 'specifically told not to comment' on the ethnicity of her attackers.

She said: 'I actually reported my abuse 14 years ago. I went to the authorities, my parents did. I sat and gave video interviews with the police, I was willing to work with them.

Rotherham gang: Brothers Basharat Dad (left), 32, Nasar Dad (right), 36, and Tayab Dad, 34, were jailed after two young girls were sexually abused in Rotherham between 1999 and 2001

Tayab Dad, 34, (left) was jailed for 10 years for rape and Amjad Ali (right) was locked up for 11 years after admitting to have sexual intercourse with a girl under 13

'I never once looked at my perpetrators for what race or religion they were. I simply looked at who they were and what they'd done.'

Emma was first groomed by her attackers when she was 12 and later spent time with them as a 13 year old in Rotherham town centre.

They introduced her to alcohol and soft drugs and started abusing her on a regular basis.

She said: 'The first time I was actually raped, I was a virgin, I was 13. I was held down and raped.

'That's when it started. It would be once a week, every week and they started passing me around.

Matloob Hussain, 41, (left) and Mohammed Sadiq, 40, (right) were found guilty of sexual intercourse with a girl under 13

'When I was 14 I was taken to a property and they locked me inside the property and took it in turns to sexually assault me, one by one. That was my life.'

'They started to blackmail me about the drugs and alcohol and said they would tell my parents and that I owed them money.

'They then started threatening that they would gang rape my mum if I started speaking about it.

'They knew where I lived because I told them in that grooming process, they knew my school. I couldn't get away.'

When asked by MailOnline columnist Hopkins if she was pleased that she had a son rather than a daughter, Emma replied: 'Yes. I think if I'd have had a girl, when she got to a teenager, it would have driven me mental really.

'To me, I'm glad I had a little boy.'