Twin brothers have been jailed for nearly 30 years between them for repeatedly raping an 11-year-old girl.
Steven and Stanley Muchemwa, 31, were caught after the girl bravely told her head teacher about the abuse.
The trial at Bolton Crown Court, Gtr Mancs., heard how Steven first started touching the girl early in 2016 when she was just 10 years old.
A court heard how one of the brothers, Stanley, told the girl he was “teaching her what to do for when she had a boyfriend”.
While giving evidence, the girl said when Steven first raped her Stanley had walked into a room while it was happening but took no action to stop it.
Prosecuting, Kathryn Johnson, said: “Stanley had seen what his brother was doing. It was following that, that Stanley started to rape her.
“He would tell her he was teaching her what to do for when she had a boyfriend.”
Ms Johnson went on to say Stanley had told the girl she would get into trouble if she told anyone about what had been happening.
She told her head teacher in October 2016, in what Judge Smith described as a “brave decision”.
The girl’s teacher said she was in an “extremely distressed state” when she began to explain her experiences.
Ms Johnson said: “Initially she wouldn’t explain why she was so upset. She told the headteacher she had been abused.
“Police and social services attended and spoke to her and her mother was contacted.”
The girl’s mother told Judge Graeme Smith her world had “come crashing down around her” when she heard what had been happening.
She said she was “completely shocked” after her daughter revealed the ordeal.
There had been a “massive change” in the girl’s personality since the incidents and she had become “clingy” and was not sleeping well due to bad dreams.
Steven and Stanley were jailed for 14 and 15 years sentences respectively.
Both men, from Bolton, initially pleaded not guilty to the charges.
But Steven changed his plea to guilty before the trial began, to two counts of sexual assault and seven counts of rape, both of a girl under 13, one count of assault on a female and a further count of causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity.
Stanley was found guilty after trial of one count of sexual assault of a child under 13 and four counts of rape of a child under 13.-Mirror
