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The victims, aged 13 to16 at the time of the offences (2014 - 2019) were sometimes plied with alcohol or cocaine before they were sexually abused

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A grooming gang in Gateshead who raped and sexually abused a number of teenage girls have been jailed for between 18 months and 14 years.