Child sex abuse trial: Accused "forced girl to have abortion"

Sajid Bostan faces charges of rape, attempted rape and indecent assault, allegedly committed between 1990 and 2001.

At Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, one of the alleged victims also claimed he made her terminate a pregnancy against her will.

The 36-year-old woman, who cannot be named, told police Bostan had raped her several times as a teenager, sometimes teaming up with friend Arshid Hussain.

But the she and Bostan began a “relationship” when she was 20 — even though Bostan was married with three children.

“He only came to see me when he wanted to,” she told police in a video interview played for the court. “He would usually just have sex and leave again.”

The woman claims she soon fell pregnant by Bostan. When he found out, she says, he became angry.

“That's when things started going bad,” she said. “He came to the house I was living at and took me up to hospital in Doncaster, to make sure I went for my appointments [at the abortion clinic].”

Asked if she would have had the termination had she not been “forced,” she replied: “No. Not because I wanted a kid, but because I didn't want to go through all that.”

She added: “I think I just wanted attention at the time. I wasn't in a good way.

“I had gone back into heroin and I was using about £10 worth a day.”

The woman alleges that Bostan and Hussain each raped her at the Prince of Wales Hotel in Masbrough just a few months before she and Bostan began their “relationship”.

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She explained her change of heart as the result of loneliness.

“I just didn’t really know anyone at that time,” she said. “I knew Saj and that seemed better than nothing.”

Hussain and Bostan both deny all charges against them. The trial continues.