https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45918845
During the trials, the court heard girls would be driven up to remote moorland late at night and abandoned if they refused the men's sexual demands.
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A sheep farmer told the BBC how he found distressed girls on the doorstep of his isolated home on a number of occasions.
One victim said her relationship with some of the gang became "one of those things that you couldn't get out of".
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Victims and their families said they repeatedly told West Yorkshire Police what was happening but no arrests were made until years later.
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Barry Sheerman, Labour MP for Huddersfield, said: "Let's be honest: no-one, local authority leadership, police, many of the people that should have been taking this more seriously earlier did not.
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Basically no one in authority wanted to know.