A 26 year old Oldham man has been sentenced to sixteen-and-a-half-years after being found guilty of 14 offences, including grooming and sexually abusing one child, and inciting another child to engage in sexual activity.
The investigation into Junedh Ahmed of Shield Close began when the victim bravely disclosed the abuse to officers at Central Park Police Station.
Detectives from our complex safeguarding team launched a detailed investigation, which uncovered a disturbing pattern of grooming, coercion, and sexual violence.
As part of sentencing proceedings, the girl bravely prepared a personal impact statement which was read aloud the court and included these words: “Jay Ahmed made me lose pieces of my childhood I can never get back.
“There were times I felt like I was drowning in silence — too scared to speak, too ashamed to ask for help.
She continued to say: “It’s taken a lot of strength just to speak these words. But I’m speaking to them because I need the court — and the world — to understand what this kind of harm does.”
Her mother also provided an impact statement, which read: “I have watched my daughter battle pain and confusion no child should ever know.
As her mother, I have fought every day to remind her she is not broken; she is strong, she is loved, and this was never her fault.
Jay Ahmed betrayed our trust, damaged a young girl’s life, and many other young girls and shook our family to the core.”
A second girl was also identified as a victim in the case and in relation to her, Ahmed was found guilty of inciting a child under the age of 13 to engage in sexual activity.
Investigators conducted a thorough digital analysis reviewing social media data, search history, and mobile phone downloads to build a strong evidential package.
This investigative work was conducted despite Ahmed refusing to provide the PIN code for his mobile phones. As such, he was convicted of a criminal offence under section 53 of RIPA for failing to comply with our investigation by preventing police from reviewing the data contained on his devices.
Through the investigation, police determined that offences took place between December 2020 and February 2022, during which time Ahmed gained the trust of the victim’s family and used his position to obtain unsupervised access to the child.
Ahmed proceeded to groom the girl with gifts, alcohol, and emotional manipulation, before subjecting her to repeated sexual abuse and recorded several instances on his mobile device.
