Anguished teen reveals she had a termination after she was raped in the Cologne mass sex attacks
She said she was thrown around a group of men before eventually falling on the floor, where she was raped
AN 18-year-old aborted her pregnancy after she was raped in the mass assaults during New Year's Eve celebrations at Cologne station.
She said she was separated from her partner before being thrown a group of men and raped on the floor, next to another girl.
The night where more than 1,200 sexual assaults were reported across Germany by gangs of men, reported to be mainly immigrants.
Up to 1,000 men may have been involved in the assaults on women in Cologne.
In this case, one of the first to be reported on a night which shook Germany and sparked concerns about immigration and women's rights.
Dozens of witnesses were questioned following the assaults and Frauke Mahr, 63, manager of project for Girls in Cologne, revealed the teenager became pregnant after being raped in front of the train station.
She told investigators: "She was separated from her girlfriend, and ended up being shoved from one man to another. She was then thrown to the floor and raped.
"She told me that a few metres away she saw another girl lying on the ground, also being raped.
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"She had tried to signal to the other girl that she should close her eyes, but the man then grabbed her own head and forced her to look at him."
Eventually a policeman pulled the man away and she ran home in panic
She did not report the crime to the police as she was so embarrassed and had never talked about it, but did go for a check-up at the hospital.
After it was discovered she was pregnant, an abortion was arranged but she was not sure if her attacker was the father of the baby.
A leaked police document found the bulk of the mass sexual crimes were committed in Cologne and Hamburg with 600 and 400 assaults on women were reported respectively.
Only 120 people have been identified, and half of those were foreign nationals who had recently travelled to Germany.
Four people have been convicted so far, but two escaped jail for sexual assault.
Chief Prosecutor Ulrich Bremer stated at the time that the overwhelming majority" of suspects were asylum seekers and illegal immigrants.
Germany has taken in millions of refugees, with 2.1millions migrating to the country in 2015.
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