A Pakistani man who "married" a 15-year-old girl in an Islamic wedding ceremony is among eight men to have been found guilty of sexual offences against her.
The victim was groomed and sexually abused by men from the age of 13 and that continued when she was in a Bradford children's home, a trial heard.
A Bradford Crown Court jury was told the "wedding" in the early 2000s to Raja Zulqurnean, was even attended by the victim's key social worker despite care home staff fearing that she was being exploited.
Zulqurnean, now 43, was found guilty of rape and indecent assault and jailed in May for a minimum of 18 years but that was increased to 23 years by appeal court judges.
The BBC is now able to report the convictions of the eight Pakistani men for the first time after reporting restrictions were amended.
Bradford Crown Court heard Zulqurnean forced the victim to wear Islamic dress and eat a halal diet and stopped her seeing family because they were "non-believers."
His trial was told he sometimes locked the victim in a cellar at a property in Bradford, sexually abused her and deprived her of food, education and medical care.
The victim told the BBC: "This was far more than a grooming case. This was an institutional scandal and no one cared for my wellbeing.
"I was married to an abuser. How could a child marry? Social services enabled it," she said.
The BBC understands the victim's former key social worker Anwar Meah was questioned by police on suspicion of malfeasance in public office, but no further action was taken and he provided no further comment to the BBC.
David Greenwood, the victim's solicitor, criticized the actions of social workers and police back in the early 2000s, when the abuse was being carried out.
"Staff in that children's home knew these serious crimes were being committed, not just to this girl but to others at the same time as well," he said.
"It should have been stopped. The police should have been in there immediately and the girls should have been probably dispersed away from that place."
The victim said other girls at the children's home had also complained about sexual exploitation.
"Loads of girls were reporting stuff back then, I'm not the only one," she said.
"The women that have got justice over the last 10 or 15 years are just a snippet of the girls who were abused in Bradford and Keighley.
"There are so many victims who have not been heard."
In total, eight Muslim men have been convicted at Bradford Crown Court in connection with the victim's sexual abuse:
- Raja Zulqurnean, 43, of Bradford, was found guilty of 10 rapes and nine indecent assaults and was sentenced to 23 years in jail
- Basharat Khaliq, 45, of Bradford, was found guilty of three rapes and four counts of indecent assault and awaits sentencing
- Mohammed Naheem, 39, of Bradford, was found guilty of three counts of indecent assault and awaits sentencing
- Safraz Ahmed Latif, 40, of Bradford, was found guilty of four indecent assaults and awaits sentencing
- Wajid Hussain, 42, of Bradford, was found guilty of indecent assault and awaits sentencing
- Nadeem Ali, 39, of Bradford, was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault and awaits sentencing
- Mohammed Imran Akram, 43, of Bradford, was found guilty of two counts of indecent assault and awaits sentencing
- Mohammed Shezhad Hussain, 39, of Keighley, was found guilty of two rapes and three counts of indecent assault and awaits sentencing