'Being raped by a gang is normal it's about craving to be accepted'
Former gang member reveals how women suffer shocking sexual abuse in return for 'status'
A female former gang member has exposed the growing levels of sexual violence against young women who join them, saying that many are willing to risk being raped in return for the status of membership.
Isha Nembhard, who was part of an 80-strong gang in Peckham, south London, said some girls readily accepted that they would be sexually abused when associating with male gangs.
The 20-year-old said that the problem had reached a point where being raped was becoming "normalised" among many young women. "Girls who are getting treated very badly know what they are getting into. They sleep with a boy and the boy asks if she will sleep with all his friends.
"It's about low self-esteem and a craving for attention. Even if they know it's wrong, they will do anything to get acceptance," she said.
"A lot of girls are sort of prostituting themselves to have sexual relationships within a gang and get treated in a bad way. For example, she might know about what happens to girls in the gang but still sleeps with all of them just for the status."
Nembhard, who was a teenage drug dealer, said that even those who are abused and called "pieces of ****" by gang members maintained sexual relationships with them because they felt "that they couldn't do better".
She added that cultural and social trends had exacerbated the problem since she left school. "When I was growing up, girls were more boisterous. I used to be a tomboy, but nowadays a lot of girls who go to school are more girly-girly and make sure they put on their makeup and wear the right sort of skirts. It's changed dramatically."
Nembhard said that girls tended to be more sexually active before the age of 16 than before. "In my day it wasn't like that," she said.
Social networking sites like Facebook had, she added, helped to encourage promiscuity among young women. "You've got young girls exposing themselves on there, making it normal, and so others follow suit."
'Being raped by a gang is normal
THE RAPE OF YOUNG GIRLS CONTINUES IN THE UK, THIS TIME AN 11 YEAR OLD
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Girl, 11, raped by schoolboy street gang members in McDonalds restaurant toilet
Involved up to eight members of the same street gang
The sex attacks took place on three separate dates
Thugs beat her up to make sure she kept quiet
By JILL REILLY
Last updated at 6:34 PM on 1st March 2012
An 11-year-old girl was raped in a McDonalds toilet in a campaign of sex attacks involving up to eight underage members of a street gang, a court heard yesterday.
They took it in turns to rape the child a dozen times over several months at various east London locations.
As if the ordeal of being raped wasnt enough, they later beat her up as a warning not to tell anyone about what had happened.
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It sounds like a UK related cultural problem and has nothing to do with Pakistan.
The problem is more than 10 times worst in the US.