She was a vulnerable underage girl living at a Middlesbrough children’s home when former youth worker Jarnal Singh befriended her.
He picked her up and took her out in his car, giving her alcohol and grooming her more than 20 years ago, Teesside Crown Court heard.
He wanted her to work as a prostitute and took her “over the border” in Middlesbrough, encouraging her to work on the streets.
When the teenage girl balked at the idea, he turned nasty.
He intimidated her, acted as if he owned her and subjected her to a string of degrading and humiliating sexual attacks, the court was told.
He drove her to the “avenue of trees” in Acklam, threatened to slit her throat, pinned her down and raped the frightened girl in his car.
He told her she had “better work for him as a sex worker”, said prosecutor Christine Egerton today.
He sexually assaulted her and twice raped her in his van.
He took her to a Middlesbrough bedsit and left her to be raped by his cousin Hardev Singh, a married dad-of-four who had sex with her against her will despite her protests.
Jarnal Singh, in his 20s at the time, told her she would sleep with more men as she was working for him.
He took her to a Stockton house where she was gang-raped by three unknown Asian men in their 30s.
Judge Tony Briggs said: “This was a devastating and wicked exploitation. It was clearly extreme degradation and humiliation. It was commercially motivated.
DNA evidence proved he had sex with the girl and he tried to explain it away, claiming he had sex with her in a nightclub toilet.
He denied any wrongdoing, saying he was “livid” at the allegations.
Jarnal previously did youth work in Middlesbrough with vulnerable young people and adults, worked in schools, with race relations, with a food bank and was a family support worker for asylum seekers and refugees.
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