"I need all the help I can get to get as many signatures as possible on the petition to get the law changed," says the victim's mother.

"You can pick up a petition at the Keighley News' front office on North Street to take to your work, school, your local pub or just hand it round relatives and neighbours.

"It could be your mother, daughter, granddaughter or neice who find themselves in this situation. The law needs changing to help the victim and not the criminal.

"If you are not guilty you don't need to refuse and ID parade or change your appearance. Only the guilty need do this.

"Keighley police have been very good over this. I dread to think how they must feel."

Editor's note: 'Normally we would not be a collection point for petitions. But in this case we feel it is justified in protecting the girl's identity.

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