Twins repeatedly raped girl
Steven and Stanley Muchemwa, 31, raped the schoolgirl in their bedroom - sometimes when other children were also sleeping in the same room.
The court heard how Stanley told the girl he was "teaching her what to do for when she had a boyfriend".
The trial at Bolton Crown Court, Gtr Mancs., heard how Steven first started touching the girl early in 2016 when she was just 10 years old.
The pair would go on to rape her in the school summer holidays after she had turned 11.
She told the court when Steven first raped her Stanley had walked into the room while the attack was happening but took no action to stop it.
Prosecuting, Kathryn Johnson, said: "Stanley had seen what his brother was doing. It was following that, that Stanley started to rape her."
She added: "He would tell her he was teaching her what to do for when she had a boyfriend."
Ms Johnson went on to say Stanley had told the girl she would get into trouble if she told anyone about what had been happening.
She told her head teacher in October 2016, in what Judge Smith described as a "brave decision”.
The girl's teacher said she was in an "extremely distressed state" when she began to explain her experiences.
Ms Johnson said: "Initially she wouldn't explain why she was so upset. She told the headteacher she had been abused.
"Police and social services attended and spoke to her and her mother was contacted."
The girl's mother told Judge Graeme Smith her world had "come crashing down around her" when she heard what had been happening.
She said she was "completely shocked" after her daughter revealed the ordeal and "devastated" she had trusted the men to take care of her.
There had been a "massive change" in the girl's personality since the incidents and she had become "clingy" and was not sleeping well due to bad dreams.
Steven and Stanley were jailed for 14 and 15 years sentences respectively.
Both men, from Bolton, had initially pleaded not guilty to the charges - although Steven changed his plea to guilty before the trial began.
Following a trial earlier this year, Stanley was found guilty of one count of sexual assault of a child under 13 and four counts of rape of a child under 13.
His brother Steven pleaded guilty to two counts of sexual assault and seven counts of rape, both of a girl under 13.
He also pleaded guilty to one count of assault on a female and a further count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
source: Dailystar.co.uk
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