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A grooming gang victim was drugged, repeatedly raped and forced to have eight abortions after she was snatched outside a Tesco as a teenager, it is claimed.

Now 26, the white Briton was held against her will for 12 years, ordered to wear traditional Islamic clothing and forced into two marriages while treated as a sex slave.

Until she finally escaped, Sarah said, she had to cook and clean for hours every day and was banned from speaking English.

Her case has now been taken up by House of Lords crossbencher Baroness Caroline Cox, who described it as one of the worst examples of sex grooming in Britain.

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Sarah (not her real name) told the Daily Mail she was a shy teen when she was abducted outside a Tesco in 2005.

She had had never had a boyfriend, was studying at college and dreamed of becoming a midwife.

But everything changed when her mobile phone rang as she was outside the Tesco near her home, and a man with a Northern accent told her he was watching her and asked her to approach his car because he had something to give her.

She got in to find out what he had, but he immediately drove off, she said.

Sarah thinks the man - the gang's leader - got her number from his friends who worked at a minicab firm she had used days earlier.

She was taken to a house next to an industrial estate, where she was held in a tiny room with a bed and raped by gang leader Jerry (not his real name) on the second day.

She said of the attack: "I was pulling back from him and I was scared. I felt angry, dirty and disgusted after he had finished."

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Her family claims the police refused to investigate her disappearance, even when they tracked her down at the house.

Over the 12 years she was held captive, she said she was drugged, raped, beaten, forced to do chores and only allowed outside if she had a chaperone.

She said she was forced to have eight abortions, including three in illegal backstreet clinics.

To hide her away from her family, Sarah said, the gang moved her from house to house and banned her from using a mobile phone or computer.

Now living in hiding, she claims she was forced to learn the Quran and allowed only to speak in the Pakistani languages of Urdu and Punjabi.

Sarah said Jerry one day told her he had married her, showing her an Islamic wedding certificate.

But he later ended the marriage and in 2012 she was married off to a man she had never met before.

She said her new husband raped her on their wedding day.

The abuse continued until she escaped one day while Jerry was sleeping.

Sarah said she used his mobile phone to call a taxi and took £20 from his jeans to pay for it.

She added: "When the taxi arrived I was in Islamic clothes. I raced out through the back gate and told the driver, a white man who kept asking if I was all right because I was so pale, to take me to where my brother lived."

She said she soon moved into a flat on her own, but Jerry found her and raped and beat her again until a neighbour called the police.

The police are investigating but no-one has been charged.

Baroness Cox said: "Every sex grooming case is terrible. But the length and cruelty of her abduction make it the worst I have known."