Jurors have heard how she met three of the defendants, Kamar Jamil, Akhtar Dogar and Anjum Dogar, in Oxford while playing truant from school.

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She told the court she and a friend would play truant from school when she was about 13 to meet the men, who were nice to her at first.

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He tries to convince truant children to come to school.

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In Jacksonville Florida, schools use home visits to stress the importance of school with the parents of chronically truant students.

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By the time she was in secondary school, the girl was smoking and playing truant and hanging around Oxford city centre to avoid home.

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If the students continue to truant, their parents can be arrested for failing to ensure their children attend school.

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Ireland is indeed sitting a rather long and uncomfortable class at the school of hard knocks and tough surprises, its children may be playing truant and heading for the private tuition of Canada and Australia but the lesson will be remembered.

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