ANOTHER PERSON has been jailed after a young Romanian girl from Slough was kidnapped in Crowthorne last year.

Aurelia Stan, 38, helped orchestrate the girl’s abduction from a foster home in February 2021, before she was taken to stay in Sheffield.

Her sentence comes after Alexandru Olteanu, 20, Marius Bucur, 19, Nutel-Virgil Papadache, 41, a 39-year-old woman from London and a 59-year-old man from Slough were locked up for a combined total of 40 years in April.

Last month, this newspaper revealed the ‘incomprehensible’ sexual abuse the girl suffered at the hands of the 59-year-old man over the course of five years having arrived in England from Romania in 2015.

The 59-year-old raped the girl ‘repeatedly’ in these years including in his van and in her own home, Reading Crown Court heard.

During an incident when she was older, the 39-year-old woman encouraged the man to assault the girl and slapped the girl herself three times.

In late 2020, the girl eventually escaped her Slough home through a window.

The girl made her way to Slough train station, crossing live train tracks to escape, where she waited for several hours before being found by police.

She was taken into foster care in November 2020 but it was only in January 2021 that she told police about the sexual abuse she suffered at the hands of the 59-year-old man.

Police interviewed the 59-year-old man and the 39-year-old woman following these allegations.

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It was then that the man and the woman hatched a plot to kidnap the girl, recruiting Aurelia Stan, Papadache, Olteanu and Bucur to assist.

Bucur started up a friendship with the girl by chatting to her online while she was isolated in care.

Reading Crown Court heard how Papadache was set to be paid £2,000 for his leading role in organising the kidnap.

In late February 2021, the group met in South-East London before Bucur lured the girl to Sheffield having been picked up by the group in Crowthorne.

She was with the group for 38 hours before police were able to locate her and take her away from the group before being found by police.

Aurelia Stan was sentenced to four years imprisonment for kidnap at Reading Crown Court on Wednesday, May 26.

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Crown Prosecution Service lawyer Marc Thompson said: “The victim in this case has suffered years of sexual abuse from a grown man. When she thought she had found someone she could trust, he brought her back to her abuser.

“In coming forward to the police with her experiences, this young girl has shown a tremendous amount of bravery. The Crown Prosecution Service is committed to working with the police and supporting victims of these dreadful crimes, so that offenders can be brought to justice.

“The victim may have trouble trusting anyone again, especially when connecting with others online. My only hope is that the conviction and imprisonment of her captors and rapist helps her to regain a sense of safety, and that she might finally get the chance to live the life a young girl deserves.”