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<span style="font-weight: bold"><span style="font-size: 11pt">Young women are being exploited and subjected to sexual violence as a result of gang reprisals, according to a report</span>.
Interviews with more than 350 women and girls by the charity Race on the Agenda revealed the use of rape to punish girl gang members and relatives of rivals.
The women and girls interviewed were all associated with gangs in London. </span>
She described one interview with a girl who had been arrested for selling drugs for a gang.
"Upon her bail, she was kidnapped and she was raped by a number of the gang members as a punishment and to silence her," she said.
"Those gang members have no problem in just putting a gun in your mother's mouth - these things happen on a day to day basis."
Interviews with more than 350 women and girls by the charity Race on the Agenda revealed the use of rape to punish girl gang members and relatives of rivals.
The women and girls interviewed were all associated with gangs in London. </span>
She described one interview with a girl who had been arrested for selling drugs for a gang.
"Upon her bail, she was kidnapped and she was raped by a number of the gang members as a punishment and to silence her," she said.
"Those gang members have no problem in just putting a gun in your mother's mouth - these things happen on a day to day basis."
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