A Keighley mother has accused the BNP of hijacking her daughter's traumatic experiences for its General Election campaign.

The mother, whose daughter fell victim to a sex abuse gang, has demanded the party stops making her ordeal a political issue.

The woman, who cannot be identified for legal reasons, spoke out to present the truth about the grooming of young girls by older men. A recent change in the law gives lifetime anonymity to victims of sex offences.

She said the party's General Election literature raised the issue to prey on parents' fears, but offered no answers.

BNP leader Nick Griffin, who is standing in Keighley, has called for a public inquiry into child grooming.

But the mother said: "They've hijacked the issue of grooming and are trying to use it as a political issue for their party.

"All the BNP has said is that it's a problem -- but what are they going to do about it? They're not saying what they can do.

"It's not just in Keighley. It's not just any town that has Asian people, there are lots of men of any colour who are exploiting young girls."

The mother said the BNP had not suggested solutions because it did not understand the problem.

She said: "They don't have people who have suffered. No one knows how it feels unless it happens to them.

"It was like a size 12 boot in the guts to hear from my daughter that she had been raped and drugged."

She is proud that successful prosecutions were carried out after she and other mothers provided police with the names of 60 alleged abusers.

She said: "There are men in prison for doing things to other girls as a direct result of my campaign. It's nothing to do with the BNP."

The mother is featured on a DVD recently sent to local homes to publicise the campaign of Labour's prospective parliamentary candidate Ann Cryer.

An in-depth interview about her and her daughter's ordeal also featured in last weekend's special Keighley issue of anti-BNP magazine Searchlight.

The caring mum first revealed her daughter's ordeal last year in the Keighley News.

She later collaborated anonymously with Channel 4 on a documentary, Edge of the City, which focused on claims that organised gangs were preying on young girls in Keighley.

At the age of 12 her daughter started dating an Asian man aged 29, who seduced her with rides in expensive cars, presents, alcohol, cigarettes and eventually drugs.

The man passed the young girl around his relatives and friends, and she began staying out overnight then going missing for weeks on end.

She had to leave Keighley for two years for her own safety, and now back home still suffers harassment at the hands of her former abusers. Her mother said the BNP's claims that further action was needed to stamp out the "scandal" was misleading.

She said: "Police and the authorities are doing as much as they can. Their hands are tied. There needs to be a change in the law so a parent as well as the daughter has the right to complain.

"It's a massive issue yet there have only been a few prosecutions, but it's because the children won't complain.

"These men are drawing them in to win them over, then they turn nasty.

"These girls are under the impression that they're their boyfriend. I wanted to protect my daughter. I was the second victim. What those men did to my daughter, they did to me. I didn't need to see what happened to know."