A WOMAN who claims she was repeatedly raped and sexually abused by men as a child has denied 'making up' her account.

The alleged victim of child sexual exploitation was also told by defence barristers she had got 'kindness, food and accommodation' in telling her story.

She called the assertion she had fabricated her account 'crazy' from the witness box at Oxford Crown Court yesterday.

The woman - who cannot be named for legal reasons - claims that when she was in her early teens she was groomed and abused by a number of men at various locations across the city.

Four men - Naim Khan, 41, of no fixed abode, Mohammed Nazir, 44, of Wood Farm Road, Oxford, Raheem Ahmed, 42, of no fixed abode, and Afzal Mohammed, 42, of Randall Street, Oxford all deny a string of charges including rape, conspiracy to rape and indecent assault.

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Jurors at the trial have already seen a series of video recorded interviews with the woman where she detailed the allegations, including abuse at parks and at various houses.

As the trial continued yesterday the woman answered questions from defence barristers representing her alleged abusers, from the witness box.

For Naim Khan, Tracy Ayling QC put to the alleged victim - who sat behind a screen - that the account she gave to police was not true.

She said: "I am going to suggest that all of the video recorded interviews that you made in relation to Naim Khan have been made up.

"Straightforwardly fabricated by you."

The woman answered: "No. They are not made up."

Ms Ayling went on: "The more you said [to police] the more attention you got."

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The alleged victim answered: "Do you really think I would want to sit here in the box and have to go through this to make it up?

"It's crazy."

Ms Ayling also put to the woman that an earlier statement she gave did not include allegations involving sexual activity with Khan.

The alleged victim explained: "I didn't want to tell anyone.

"I have just been putting it to the back of my head all my life.

"It has just destroyed me, absolutely destroyed me."

As the cross-examination continued the woman said that previously she had been homeless and had been using class A drugs.

She also admitted before the jury shoplifting to fund her drugs habit, which she said mainly involved the use of crack cocaine.

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She added: "It's not nice, that life.

"I was living on the streets, what sort of life is that, to just try and get by day by day, try to find somewhere to sleep if you can.

"You have got to just try and take drugs to not feel like you are there basically."

Explaining some of her recent offending the woman said she had let 'men take the p**s.'

She said: "I felt that is what I deserved.

"If I have been treated like s**t from a young age, from men, I have grown up thinking that is all I deserve."

Ms Ayling also put to her that during her more recent police interview,s in which sexual allegations were made, the woman in turn received a number of benefits.

She said: "From the moment that you started to tell officers about sexual abuse by Asian men you received accommodation, food, and basic kindness, which you had not received before.

"They were nice to you weren't they?"

She replied: "They were doing their job and they were nice to me."

It was also put to the woman that during the process of recording interviews that that 'support and help' continued.

The woman agreed and accepted that she had been given a deferred sentence at Reading Magistrates' Court for breaching a community order because of her involvement as a witness in this case.

Earlier in the trial jurors were told that the woman was plied with cannabis before being raped or sexually assaulted at parks, in cars and at homes across the city.

It is claimed that she was 'pimped out' to men and the abuse is alleged to have involved three girls, aged from 13 to 15, between 1999 and 2001 in Oxford.

All four men deny the charges and the trial continues.