Teenager reveals she became pregnant after being raped during Cologne sex attacks

The 18-year-old's terrifying ordeal emerged as a parliamentary inquiry contnues into the mob attacks on women in Germany on New Year's Eve

It is thought 2,000 men sexually assaulted 1,200 women at the party (YouTube)

A teenager who claimed she was raped in the New Year’s Eve attacks in Germany said she discovered she was pregnant soon after the attack.

The 18-year-old alleged she was held down and raped in the middle of a crowded square outside Cologne Station during the mob attack.

Her story was detailed in testimony to a parliamentary inquiry from the Cologne Lobby for Young Women.

Hundreds of women were sexually assaulted outside the city’s main station on New Year’s Eve but this is the first details of a rape claim said to have resulted in a pregnancy.

Head of the Lobby for Young Women Frauke Mahr told the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament, according to the Local, how the woman was jostled between two men then pushed to the ground.

Ms Mahr said: “Eventually she ended up on the ground with a man on top of her. She could see his face. She could see another girl lying on the ground a few metres away and tried to signal to her to close her eyes, but the man turned her head away.”

A police officer pulled the man from her and she is reported to have run off in panic.

After being treated in hospital for severe injuries, she later discovered she was pregnant.

Although the teenager could not be certain the pregnancy was as a result of the attack, she decided to have an abortion. She is still having counselling, according to the Lobby for Young Women, but had chosen not to report it to the police.

At least one other woman had contacted the Lobby for Young Women claiming to have been raped in similar circumstances, according to Ms Mahr.

Police believe up to 2,000 men were involved in the New Year’s Eve attacks in Cologne and other major German cities including Hamburg and Frankfurt, with more than 1,200 women thought to have been victims of sexual assault.

The majority of the attackers are believed to have been asylum seekers and illegal immigrants, who had entered Germany under Chancellor Angela Merkel’s “open-door” policy.

Only 120 suspects have been identified so far by police and just four men convicted.

In February, the government of North Rhine-Westphalia launched an inquiry into how such a large number of sexual assaults and other crimes were able to happen in one night.