Prosecutors allege the stepfather had decided to abuse the girl after discovering she was sending sexually explicit videos to boys on Snapchat (left, file photo). He created a Snapchat account for her to use on his phone and then secretly logged in from a different device to watch the indecent videos she created for his own sexual gratification, the court heard. But he told police he had given the girl the phone which he allegedly used to groom her so she could use it to study the Qu'ran on WhatsApp. But instead the girl used it for TikTok and Snapchat and threatened to make 'an allegation' against him if he informed her mother, jurors were told. The abuse allegedly escalated to the defendant raping her twice, sexually touching her while she was resting while fasting during Ramadan and sending her sexual communications, all during the course of last year, jurors were told. Eventually, the girl - who cannot be identified for legal reasons - disclosed what was happening to her mother, Reading Crown Court (right, file photo) heard.
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