Rochdale grooming gang members could be deported after judges uphold ruling to strip them of British citizenship Khan, who also trafficked a 15-year-old girl to others, using violence when she. The Rochdale case was one of several cases which prompted investigations looking into the claim that "the majority of the perpetrators have been British Pakistani"; the first was by Quilliam in December 2017, which released a report entitled "Group Based Child Sexual Exploitation - Dissecting Grooming Gangs", which claimed 84% of offenders were Part of HuffPost News. 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[21], Following the break up of the first sex ring in May 2012, the police made arrests in relation to another child sexual exploitation ring in Rochdale. What about them? "[30], Tim Loughton, the Minister for Children and Families, said that while there was no evidence that ethnic communities condoned child sexual abuse, he was concerned that some had been slow to report it to the police, and urged police and social workers not to allow "political correctness around ethnicity" to hinder their work to apprehend such criminals. The report came on the same day five men were jailed for grooming a teenage girl. [22] Operation Doublet was launched at the same time as an investigation into child grooming and sexual abuse in the region. The first victim, who was 15 when the abuse began, told the police what had been happening to her in August 2008. [32], Wendy Shepherd, child sexual exploitation project manager for Barnardo's in the north of England, said that since she started working with the organisation, there has been "a shift from the men selling children in ones or twos to something that is much more organised in groups and networks. In other words, victims of horrific abuse had been ignored until one of them - the girl who smashed up the takeaway - finally made her story heard. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A Serious Case Review published in 2013 concluded that the authorities 'struggled to empathise' with the girls, partly because they were from poor backgrounds, giving them a 'skewed picture of their behaviour'. I push thoughts about the abuse out of my head. Now they werent prepared to do that. More arrests, and more . Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. [2], The victims, vulnerable teenagers from deprived, dysfunctional backgrounds, were targeted in "honeypot locations" where young people congregated, such as takeaway food shops. [1] One 13-year-old victim recounted that, after being forced to have sex in exchange for vodka, her abuser immediately raped her again and gave her 40 to not say anything about the incident. I gave hours of interviews, reliving all the abuse. In this case the judge did indicate his belief that the Rochdale gang had deliberately sought victims outside their own community. "It made me feel like I was pretty. The government would not comment on the Rochdale case but said it had deported more than 51,000 foreign national offenders since 2010. Finally, she has been exonerated. [1][2], The oldest person to be convicted, Shabir Ahmed,[16] was for a while the main trafficker of the victims. She added: "The danger with saying that the problem is with one ethnicity is that then people will only be on the lookout for that group and will risk missing other threats. "Any criminal convictions that [Daisy] has, have been as a direct consequence of the abuse and exploitation. "He asked me to come upstairs and I didn't really think anything of it," she explained. Greater Manchester Police said officers are becoming want to make sure Payton is 'safe and well'. Calls to deport 'appalling' grooming trio, Human error to blame for train crash - Greek PM, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. 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She still has a scar on her arm and as far as we know, the man who abused her was never investigated. [32] The inquiry issued its final report in November 2013. Nine men were convicted of being part of the child sexual exploitation ring, Nazir Afzal regrets that the CPS dropped the original grooming case, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. This vulnerable girl had been failed.. When police were called to a report of a 15-year-old girl smashing up the Balti House takeaway in Heywood, they had no idea that the crime they had. 2023 BBC. Nine men of mainly Pakistani heritage were convicted in 2012 after a long, complex trial for offences that happened in and around Rochdale in 2008 and 2009. Rochdale grooming case - what really happened? Officers on the Rochdale division were under pressure at the time to hit volume crime targets like bringing down the number of burglaries and were overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the grooming problem they had uncovered. Because she was not involved in the trial, and therefore did not give evidence, she had no opportunity to defend herself. The testimony of one of the five victims of the Rochdale grooming ring revealed the depth of the exploitation she suffered. NINE men who ran the Rochdale child sex abuse ring were eventually jailed for a string of offences in 2012. She gave the police a list, at an early stage of Operation Span, with nicknames, telephone numbers and other details relating to offenders. She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the Honey Monster. Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. Some of the men involved were arrested, tried and found guilty. Finally, after a gruelling 18 months and several hearings, the judge threw the case out. Police began to investigate child grooming in Rochdale almost by accident. But the consequences of what happened to her are still preventing her from moving on with her life. This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. . ', "We haven't sorted out a solution to these really complex issues about young people.". VideoAt the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, How fake copyright complaints are muzzling journalists, How 10% of Nigerian registered voters delivered victory, Sake brewers toast big rise in global sales, The Indian-American CEO who wants to be US president, Blackpink lead top stars back on the road in Asia, Exploring the rigging claims in Nigeria's elections, 'Wales is in England' gaffe sparks TikToker's trip. Actress Maxine Peake starred in the series as Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health aid worker who first uncovered the patterns of severe abuse in the area, but struggled to bring it to the attention of authorities. Back in the police station, the girl who had just vandalised the takeaway provided a detailed account of the abuse and the perpetrators as well as evidence in the form of her underwear, which carried traces of one of her attackers' DNA. I'm only a kid - why is it always me? Daisy gave evidence at the Rochdale grooming trial; her testimony about the abuse she witnessed helped put men in prison. One example mentioned was the issue of child protection for one of the victims, which was discussed in 40 meetings, without any record of police attendance. She plans to become a social worker, partly due to the ordeal she suffered while still a vulnerable young girl. The patchy training of frontline staff was to blame for the way childrens social care responded to the victims, the Rochdale Borough Safeguarding Children Board (RBSCB) said in its review into child sexual exploitation after the trial. Address: CA Torrance 4101 Torrance Blvd. A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children. She has forced the police and social services to apologise to her for their behaviour. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. Even when the authorities did recognise the problem, their slow reaction allowed the abusers to carry on exploiting their victims for years. One of their victims tells her story. 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The convictions she received as a teen continue to hold her back to this day. A significant proportion of cases were labelled as no further action needed and the leadership team were not interested in childrens social care. Attempts by Rochdale Crisis Intervention Team co-ordinator for the NHS, Sara Rowbotham, to alert police and authorities to "patterns of sexual abuse" were ignored. "I was scared telling them, because I didn't know what the consequences would be from the men. "Lessons must be learnt from this report and measures implemented to ensure no other vulnerable children are treated as at fault. Known as the "Rochdale Grooming" case, over 1400 vulnerable children were systematically abused by gangs of men between 2005 and 2013. I was like, 'why are you not listening? There was a complete lack of appreciation of the world in which some of the girls lived - when in fact that should have framed every conversation . Amber still sees those whom she says raped, beat and tortured her, out and about in Rochdale. News. Grooming victim: "What they did to me was evil. Between 2003 and 2014, Rowbotham made more than 180 attempts to alert police and social services but was told the witnesses were not reliable. In 2019, Amber, along with two other victims, with the help of the Centre for Womens Justice, issued a civil claim for damages against GMP and the director of public prosecutions (DPP). [48][49], A further investigation was carried out by the British government in December 2020, when the Home Office published their findings, showing that the majority of child sexual exploitation gangs were, in fact, composed of white men and not British Pakistani men.[50][51]. [7] A former Detective Constable who was investigating the grooming gangs, Margaret Oliver, resigned in 2012 in disgust of the handling of the cases by the police force and spoke out as a whistleblower to inform the public. Pay Range: $54.58 - $88.09. Writing for HuffPost UK, chief executive Javed Khan of childrens charity Barnardos described Three Girls as absolutely vital viewing.. Numerous opportunities to intervene were missed and only two girls received child protection planning, the report said. Ten months after her case had been dropped, police decided to revisit the case after more complaints emerged. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the countrys most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals. Another night - this time in 2007 - Daisy says she was burnt with a heated metal spoon as punishment for refusing to have sex with a man at a house party. Although a court order prevented her being named, everyone in her local community knew who she was. Assistant Chief Constable Dawn Copley said that, at the time of the earlier investigation, "there was a strong target driven focus, predominantly on serious acquisitive crime. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. But she changed her mind when Operation Span came knocking and she was given cast iron assurances the victims would be supported. She told me: Police werent arsed with us, really. "[39], Nazir Afzal, who as the newly appointed chief crown prosecutor decided to bring the case to trial, said that sex, not race, was the key issue: "There is no community where women and girls are not vulnerable to sexual attack and that's a fact. Of the three not convicted, one was cleared of all charges, the jury was unable to reach a verdict in the case of the second, and the third was not present at the trial after fleeing to Pakistan whilst on bail. "I'm nearly 30 years old, this started when I was 12," she says. [9] The men were aged between 24-59 and all knew each other. On 9 May 2012, the Rochdale grooming trial reached its conclusion. Nine men between 24 and 38 years old were arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child. The recent BBC One drama Three Girls explored the harrowing true story of the Rochdale child grooming case. 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[5], In March 2015, Greater Manchester Police apologised for its failure to investigate the child sexual exploitation allegations more thoroughly between 2008 and 2010. There were fears that press involvement would frighten the girls away. Police failed to tell council about arrest of Rochdale grooming gang leader who was employed as welfare rights officer Casework by police and social care was "very poor" in 10 sample cases [33] After members of the Rochdale gang were sentenced, the UK's Department for Education announced new funding for a specialist foster care scheme to protect vulnerable children in residential care, where some victims had been. She said that seven officers had been served with misconduct notices, but no further disciplinary action would be taken against them. In relation to historical failures, he apologised to Daisy. No further action was taken against Amber, but it would be another two years before the CPS agreed that she should be treated as a victim and witness rather than a suspect. What the police and CPS did to me was worse than the abuse The apology will be a kind of a weight lifted from me. But the nightmare will never really be over. Finally, officers did not challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. Later, Rochdale sexual health worker Sara Rowbotham told an inquiry that all the girls had been treated appallingly by protective services. Must demonstrate independence and competence in the duties on a variety of procedures. She told me: So it didnt happen to anybody else. This eventually led to the successful prosecution of nine men for offences included rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. I think it was because they were afraid of being called racist. 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The trial at Liverpool Crown Court in 2012 heard five girls - aged between 13 and 15 - were given alcohol, food and money in return for sex but there were times when violence was used. Why's nothing happened to the police? The Rochdale child sex abuse ring involved underage teenage girls in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England. They were overlooked, they were discriminated against.. A victim of Rochdale grooming gangs has told the BBC that convictions she received as a teenager - for offences linked to the abuse she was suffering - have destroyed her hopes of a career. But she added: "They're just brainwashing you so you think you love them so you do what they say. They ripped away all my dignity". The report also showed that more than 3,000 children under the age of 18 were reported missing in Greater Manchester in 2014. '", 'We should have listened to he broken teenagers'. Why the Rochdale 'grooming trial' wasn't about race Focusing on the ethnicity of the men convicted of child sex offences in Rochdale detracts from the real issue: this was ultimately about. Nine men of mainly Pakistani. The ID parades were particularly gruelling for Amber, who did 12 in one day alone, correctly identifying 10 of her abusers. He shouted in court, "Where are the white people? She was being shared around paedophiles across the north of England. [24], The case raised a serious debate about whether the crimes were racially motivated. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) - Failure to recognise child sexual exploitation in the early stages, Rochdale Social Services - Lack of organisational priority over child sexual exploitation, an unstable duty and assessment team and a "chaotic" duty system, Health services - GPs had explicit information that some of the girls were at risk "that could have helped them identify the possibility of sexual exploitation at earlier points", Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) - Recognition of child sexual exploitation in the early years "was very poor", resulting in missed prosecution opportunities in 2008. As always you can unsubscribe at any time. "[32] Further research has been pursued since late 2011 by the Office of the Children's Commissioner. He said that of convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 87% were of British Pakistani men and it was a significant problem for that community. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. [17] Abdul Aziz, a married father of three, took over from Shabir Ahmed as the main trafficker and was paid by various men to supply underage girls for sex. [2] One gang member convicted of sex trafficking was a religious studies teacher at a mosque and a married father of five. "The biggest issue to come out of this report is that Greater Manchester Police (GMP) were effectively discriminating against poor, white, working-class girls, so that's not about a failure to spot abuse, that is about actively ignoring abuse that was going on when it was brought to their attention," he said. [22] Suggestions emerged that police and social work departments failed to act when details of the gang emerged for fear of appearing racist, and vulnerable white teenagers being groomed by Pakistani men were ignored. Video, At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece, Harry and Meghan told to 'vacate' Frogmore Cottage, Fungus case forces Jack Daniels to halt construction, Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart, Ed Sheeran says wife developed tumour in pregnancy, China and Belarus call for peace in Ukraine, Dozens of girls treated after new Iran poisonings, Havana Syndrome unlikely to have hostile cause - US, Man survives 31 days in jungle by eating worms. It is worth remembering though that none of it would be happening without a frightened, angry girl who had been raped venting her rage in a takeaway in Heywood and then being courageous enough to speak about what had happened. Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet Amber was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end. She continued to receive phone calls from her abusers, and cars with drivers she recognised were parking outside. Despite one victim going to the police in 2008 to report the child grooming, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute two men, invoking the witness's lack of credibility. [I] cant remember exactly what they said, but it was something along the lines of being a madam, she recalled. Nine men from Rochdale and Oldham were sentenced for up to 19 years in prison in May 2012 after being convicted of offences including rape. Man United beat West Ham United 3-1 in the fifth round of the FA Cup at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening. An independent report commissioned by Rochdale council said three employees had spoken of victims making life choices rather than being rape victims. I shouldve been helped, not punished.. It was like a casual, Oh, bring your friends. She was a vulnerable child, being sexually abused, controlled and in fear. As a responsible publication the M.E.Ns editors respected this request from senior detectives at GMP and eventually our story was published a few months later. Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk (Labour) said agencies had actively ignored the abuse and that "social services believed these girls were making lifestyle choices". "She yearns to put her awful experiences to some value. Ive got a box in the back of my head, and I just put it all in there and its locked away.. Social workers focused on young people's high-risk behaviour and "not their vulnerability", the latest review found. [16], The trial concluded in May 2012 with the nine convictions. They werent bothered when youre from a shit home. But when she was just 12, she was groomed and sexually abused by gangs of adult men. One in five children and young people who go missing from home or care is at risk of serious harm, with major concerns about the links between children running away and the risks of child sexual exploitation, it said. [44], One study suggested that the British media's portrayal of South Asian men as perpetrators of sexual violence against white victims is an example of a moral panic. RN Case Manager - Case Management at Providence Little Company of Mary Torrance Hospital $20,000 hiring bonus for eligible external hires that meet required qualifications and conditions for payment Read about our approach to external linking. Then, shortly after the ID parade, Oliver was told that they were no longer going to use Ambers evidence. It meant she was regarded by the prosecution as a member of the grooming gang whose members would go in the dock, even though she was not charged and would not stand beside them in court. Amber had, under pressure from the abusers, taken some of her friends to the takeaway where the ringleaders operated from. [citation needed], Twelve men were initially charged with sex trafficking and other offences including: rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. [18] Among the incidents recorded by the police were a 15-year-old victim too drunk to recall being raped by 20 men, one after the other; and another victim so drunk that she vomited over the side of the bed as she was being raped by two men. "They threaten you, and you're scared of them, and that's how they make you do it.". It's now 10 years since the start of the police investigation that led to the Rochdale grooming trial. The men, she said, were friendly at first, simply chatting with the girls now and again in a takeaway shop. Molly Windsor, Liv Hill and Ria Zmitrowicz feature as a trio of girls drawn into the frightening world of sexual exploitation. "[3], Sayeeda Warsi, co-chairperson of the Conservative Party, in an interview with the Evening Standard, said "You can only start solving a problem if you acknowledge it first," and added, "This small minority who see women as second class citizens, and white women probably as third class citizens, are to be spoken out against." [8] The victims, plied with drugs and alcohol, were passed around friends and family,[18] and taken to various locations in the north of England, including Rochdale, Oldham, Nelson, Bradford and Leeds. Girls aged between 13 and 15 were trafficked, prostituted, raped and assaulted by the gang. The investigation slowly built a compelling case, away from the public gaze. "It's not a normal relationship when your boyfriend is getting you to sleep with all his friends for money.". Why is it me that suffers still?". 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