“I was near the Marsascala Bocci club, together with the group. It was around 7pm. Ozzy started telling me he wanted to have sex with me. I told him: “Leave me! And don’t speak to me like that in front of the others.”

He then went and opened the door of Chris’s car. He came up to me, grabbed me and dragged me to the car. He entered from the driver’s side, locked my door, forced his seat down and mine too, and stripped off. I did not want him to touch me, nor did I want him to strip. I told him: “Stop! Leave me!” but he started swearing and began stripping off my clothes.

When he started having sex with me, Jane and Joyce came to the car and started peering in. Then Ozzy opened the window and swore at them. I dressed quickly, opened the door and ran away. He ran after me and caught me.

He took me by my hand and forced me to walk with him to Ta’ Monita. By then it was pitch dark. Again, he stripped off and again against my wishes he had sex with me for around 10 minutes.

Adrian had been pestering me for a long time and asking me “When are we going to?” I never answered him. Once we were at Marsascala and he told me “Today, we go.” Jane and Marvic were with us and we four walked together. Adrian and Marvic took me to the back of the cinema at Marsascala. We entered a building under construction behind the cinema. Jane waited outside. Adrian and Marvic wanted to have sex with me at the same time. I told them “No! I don’t want” But they just went ahead and did it.

Then they came back for me and told me “Come on. Let’s go.” But I did not want to go with them. I wanted to stay on my own because I felt very depressed. I did not want to see them again.

Once Joey, Daniela, Chris and myself walked to Chris’s car and got in.

I thought we were going for a drive. Instead, Chris drove in the direction of Zonqor. We went behind the swimming pool. It was dark and we stayed in the car. Daniela and Chris went out and walked towards the sea while Joey and I remained in the car. He pulled down the seats and started kissing me. He wanted to have sex with me. I did not even fancy him, let alone wanted to have sex with him. I wished I could tell him “Stop!” But I did not know what to tell him.

One of our friends, a girl, used to get drunk every weekend. She would go round swinging from side to side. I saw her many times and I know the boys knew she would get drunk with just a little drink. So they would give her drinks so after they could go and have sex with her.

Once I saw Joey touch her as they walked up the steps behind the bocci club. Then I saw her going off with Peter, Oscar, and with whoever was there.”

“I had sex with Adrian. He was the one who took my virginity. Before that, I had no boyfriend. We had sex for the first time when he took me to Ta’ Monita, a derelict place with many abandoned apartments. I did not want to go in because I was afraid.

He told me to strip but I did not want to. He insisted. I kept saying No, but he told me I was a tease. I felt he was ridiculing me and bullying me. I was very hurt by these words. I surrendered because he would have continued to make fun of me.

He stripped me and forced me up against him and had sex with me. I told him “Stop! You are hurting me!” but he did ignored me and continued.

I pushed him back because he was really hurting me. I did not want to lose my virginity. I loved Adrian but I never wanted to have sex with him because I was still young.

Then he took me back to the Marsascala public garden. When we arrived, Stanley started shouting “Look how she’s walking” and making fun of me.

I started stealing money from my aunt, which she kept in the drawer of her wardrobe. At first I used to take Lm10. Later on I stole hundreds of liri. I am very sorry I robbed my aunt.

I used to give the money to my friends. I gave some Lm30 to Jane to pierce her belly button and her eye. She used to threaten me saying she would tell my mum that I had sex with Adrian and Stanley.

Stephanie threatened that she would break up my relationship with and Adrian and that she would tell my mum I had sex with the boys. I also paid for mobile cards, body piercing and tattoos for the boys.

Once Nathan called me a ‘hot cat’ and I replied to him in kind. Angry he rushed at me and told me “I will stub out this cigarette in your eye”. Had it not been for Marvic, he would have done so. The cigarette was just an inch away from my eye.

Around the end of October, I was very depressed because my mum got to know of everything. My aunt had told her that I stole money from her. My mum was very angry and beat me up.

I was very sad. I looked back and realised what I had done and what others had done to me. I felt abused by all my friends.

One day I swallowed three pills, I did not know what they were, and drank some wine. I grabbed a belt and tightened it with all my strength around my neck. I wanted to end it all.”

“The boys in the gang abused me. Many times I started crying because I could not stand it any more. But they only laughed more at me.

In all my 17 years I had never done these things. I also tried to report them to the police but I was always too scared of them.

Once I was walking and Adrian and Oscar came after me and started talking to me.

When we came to the back of the Boys Muzew Oscar started stripping me and sat down. I resisted but it was all for nothing. He pulled me onto him and had sex with me. I told him I was hurting but he carried on.

Then three others came. I didn’t know them and I had never seen them before. I told them as well that I did not want to do it. But they sat on the same step and all did it to me.

When they were ready, all five of them, I felt like a dirty woman and I wept all night at home.

Once I told the woman doctor who takes care of me because I have mental problems.

One other time we were near the swings at Marsascala, Jimmy came to me and told me “Come with me”. I had to go.

When we got to a place, I saw other people but I did not know all of them. They forced me to undress and held me. I cried and told them “Leave me alone” but they all held me down. Jane picked up a iron bar from the ground and inserted it into my vagina. I started crying and covered my eyes with my hands.

I tried to get up but could not because they continued holding me down.

When she had enough, Jane stopped. Then I went back with them because I did not know the place enough. Jimmy then told me “See you don’t tell anyone, because we will pay you back if you do.”

When I got home I told no one because I was terrified. The next day I was still in pain.

Right now I am terrified. My head hurts and I am afraid to stay alone at home. I turn the stereo full on so as not to be afraid.”

“I got to know Jane before the summer holidays, during the exams. We soon became friends. At first we stayed with the others, but then she started keeping me all to herself. She used to tell me she loved me, she would embrace and kiss me, lick me and do such things. She always warned me not to tell anyone.

Once she kissed me on the lips and when I reacted she picked me up and threw me into a rubbish skip. Sometimes she dragged me on the ground and beat and punched me.

I remained with her because I was afraid of her and also because of pressure from my friends who did not know she abused me. Once we were lying on her bed and she started embracing me, then she tried to abuse me. I was shocked and told her “What are you doing?” and removed her hand. She grabbed me from my waist and pressed me to her. I struggled and succeeded in standing up. Sarcastically, she told me” I don’t believe you are not enjoying this.” She also told me that Graziella, a 10-year-old, used to allow her to do such things to her.

A certain Oscar was a leader among the boys. He used to have false currency which he used to give out so that people buy things with it. He used to steal and he used to get my friends to steal car tyre rims. Once I saw Nathan stealing some hubcaps from cars parked behind the bocci pitch at Marsascala.

There was also Marvic, a 17-year-old, who was on drugs. Sometimes he used to sniff in front of me with Lm2 notes. Once he showed me two bags full of drugs and told me they cost Lm80.

Once at the Marsascala festa, we were in the public garden. There was a foreign woman who was drunk and started swaying. Marvic, Wayne and Adam went to her, stole money from her purse, and her mobile as well and the three then had sex with her.

Today I am afraid of these youngsters and my stomach kicks in when I see them or when they phone me.”