They were overlooked, they were discriminated against.. . 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. In 2014 an inquiry led by MP Ann Coffey suggested sexual exploitation of children had become normal on some streets and estates in Greater Manchester. "[32] Further research has been pursued since late 2011 by the Office of the Children's Commissioner. 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. Sign up and we will email you daily with the best of our political and news coverage while also giving you a taste of our most-popular lifestyle, opinion and personal blogs. This reluctance was because shed been in this position before. They dont give a fuck when youre not from a wealthy background.. One delivered a takeaway to my house a few weeks back, she tells me. "[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. The three-part series tells the story of the victims of an infamous child grooming and sex trafficking scandal in Rochdale, and continues on Wednesday night. A serious case review by the Rochdale. Nine men of mainly Pakistani. Updated 10:47, 10 JUN 2020. "The report paints a shocking picture of the inability of these agencies to protect these young people successfully," said Jane Booth, chair of the safeguarding board. Police and social workers failed the girls who were "passed around for sex" by a gang of men, it said. The abuse continued for months, until one evening she was arrested by police for smashing the counter at a takeaway where some of the men met the girls. "It will always be there, but I know how to deal with it," she said. 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. The perpetrators would pass the girls to their friends, often to settle a debt. 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. The investigation slowly built a compelling case, away from the public gaze. "He asked me to come upstairs and I didn't really think anything of it," she explained. [35] "The citations are correct but they have been taken out of context," Cockbain told The Independent; "Nor do they acknowledge the small sample size of the original research, which focused on just two large cases." But the situation changed and she was raped by one of the men. *To protect her identity the victim's name has been changed. Nothing happened. Running though them is repeated mentions of the fact that many in authority believed that the girls had brought the abuse on themselves. Those failings allowed seven youngsters, and potentially dozens more later identified by police, to be exposed to a catalogue of horrific sex abuse at the hands of manipulative predators. Abdul Rauf was sentenced to six years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. She later went on to positively identify a number of offenders, which enabled charges to be brought against them all. News. She told me: Police werent arsed with us, really. 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[55], Last edited on 19 February 2023, at 10:03, UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science, Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, List of sexual abuses perpetrated by groups, Post-assault treatment of sexual assault victims, "Rochdale grooming trial: gang convicted for sex trafficking", "Rochdale child sex ring case: respected men who preyed on the vulnerable", "Rochdale grooming trial: Nine found guilty of child sex charges", "Rochdale grooming trial: how the case unfolded", "Rochdale child sex ring: did political correctness delay justice? Sun Online looks at the group from Rochdale and Oldham, who exploited girls as young as 1 [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]. "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. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. "That can't make sense.". She was being shared around paedophiles across the north of England. The networks of men come from different backgrounds: in the North and Midlands many have been British Asians; in Devon it was white men; in Bath and Bristol, Afro-Caribbeans; in London, all ethnic mixes, whites, Iraqis, Kurds, Afghans, Somalis". I hoped that I would be able to persuade the elders to go knocking on doors and say 'this behaviour is un-Islamic and I want it to stop because I'm going to tell the whole community about you and what youre doing if you dont'. ", "Police 'sorry' over Rochdale child sex abuse failures", "This is what happened to Three Girls whistleblower Sara Rowbotham", "Nine men found guilty of sexually abusing vulnerable girls in Rochdale", "Senior judge slams lawyers for obstructing Rochdale child sex grooming gang deportation case", "Members of paedophile gang treated victims as 'worthless', "Gang To Be Sentenced Over Child Sex Crimes", "Profiles of Child Sex Abuse Gang Members", "Rochdale Grooming Scandal Whistleblower Defends Sarah Champion And Slams Austerity", "Rochdale child sex grooming case originally dropped", "Nazir Afzal: 'We tackled grooming gangs. The women, who cannot be named for. After a while, the girl was being driven to different houses or flats where there would be other men waiting. Why can't I get a job? 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. 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. Ive got a box in the back of my head, and I just put it all in there and its locked away.. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said that about 550 officers were working on Operation Doublet in May 2013. The exposure of the grooming, sexual assault and trafficking of young girls in Rochdale was made public in 2012. 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. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. Between 2003 and 2014, Rowbotham made more than 180 attempts to alert police and social services but was told the witnesses were not reliable. Social workers told him she was "a child prostitute", and he accepted this "because he did not know that it was wrong", the review said. 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 grooming scandals in Rochdale and similar ones in other cities which involved Asian men, including Oxford and Rotherham, have fuelled fight-wing groups opposing multiculturalism and immigration. At best this was distracting for leaders and influenced the areas that resources were focused on". The amounts listed are the base pay range; additional compensation may be available for this role, such as shift differentials, standby/on-call, overtime, premiums, extra shift incentives, or bonus opportunities. It revealed that some CSC staff have been subjected to disciplinary action, although no-one is thought to have been sacked. [10] The gang worked to secure underage girls to rape and exploit.[11][12]. Finally, she has been exonerated. But not all. The uncomfortable truth would eventually come out despite the botched original police investigation which concluded the girl, who would later become the prosecutions star witness, was not credible. [23], In March 2015, ten men aged between 26 and 45 were charged with serious sex offences against seven females aged between 13 and 23 at the time. As a result of police failures to respond to evidence, the men who had groomed the three children were able to continue . Read about our approach to external linking. A ringleader of a grooming gang has avoided being deported so it would therefore be wrong to deport two other gang members, a tribunal has heard. However, Sir Peter said the report failed to confront a "fundamental" problem faced by police officers, who are repeatedly asked to track down and return young people missing from children's homes, only for them to run away again. Even when the authorities did recognise the problem, their slow reaction allowed the abusers to carry on exploiting their victims for years. Police began to investigate child grooming in Rochdale almost by accident. The first victim, who was 15 when the abuse began, told the police what had been happening to her in August 2008. "Eventually I moved out of the area as I couldn't stay there anymore.". The men, she said, were friendly at first, simply chatting with the girls now and again in a takeaway shop. Speaking to BBC Five Live, Sir Peter Fahy, chief constable of Greater Manchester, denied his officers had failed to investigate allegations of rape made by underage girls before a decision was taken not to prosecute in 2008. Indeed one witness, said in the course of the trial that he did not wish to be seen with young white girls in his community in Oldham.. "Our understanding [of these crimes] at the time wasn't as developed and our practice wasn't as improved as it is today. Who were the men in the Rochdale grooming gang and what happened to them? She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the Honey Monster. Abdul Aziz, 51, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Rauf, 52,. In October 2010 the M.E.N. The review recommended the Greater Manchester Police establish a monitoring system and commit to maintaining a child sexual exploitation team. I gave hours of interviews, reliving all the abuse. The victims were coerced and bribed into keeping quiet about the abuse by a combination of alcohol and drugs, food, small sums of money and other gifts. A June 2008 report to Rochdale safeguarding children board had identified 50 children at risk of sexual exploitation. Career Track: Leadership. [46], 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 of South Asian heritage. In relation to historical failures, he apologised to Daisy. I shouldve been helped, not punished.. 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The review acknowledged that police officers might have discriminatory attitudes towards the victims, that the victims were interviewed by detectives without training in child exploitation and no strategy when victims returned to their abusers. A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children. The review recommended a "speedy resolution" to leadership failures. More arrests, and more . [14] The CPS's original decision was overturned in 2011 when a new chief prosecutor for the region, Nazir Afzal, a first generation British-Pakistani,[15] was appointed. Man United beat West Ham United in the FA Cup fifth round and here are how the players rated at Old Trafford. 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. A new investigation, dubbed Operation Span, was launched. [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. Pay Range: $54.58 - $88.09. She told me: So it didnt happen to anybody else. [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. Tellingly, he added: I believe that one of the factors that led to that was that they were not of your community or religion. Posted: February 21, 2023. It was not until summer 2011 that Nazir Afzal, the new regional head of the CPS, reversed the decision not to prosecute. One of the victims given the fictitious name Amber in Three Girls, the BBC One drama about the abuse was 14 when she was targeted by gang members. I think it's wrong that she be held back in this way.". [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. "This is something I feel very strongly about," she says. The organisation defined underage grooming as any situation where a child or young person received a gift in exchange for sexual favours. I felt sick, got upset nothing never no one from police came to me to explain why I was no longer going to court. When a local teenager was caught smashing up a glass chiller at the Balti House takeaway in Heywood in August 2008, police dismissed it as a simple act of vandalism. The testimony of one of the five victims of the Rochdale grooming ring revealed the depth of the exploitation she suffered. 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. I agreed to help the police to stop it happening to others, Amber wrote to Oliver in the midst of her campaign for justice. In this case the judge did indicate his belief that the Rochdale gang had deliberately sought victims outside their own community. Without Ambers initial evidence there might never have been a trial at all. But after a while it had been going on for so long and with so many different men, I didn't feel anything towards it anymore. He said that of convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 87% were of British Pakistani men and it was a significant problem for that community. [41][42][43], Two of the convicted gang members worked at Eagle Taxis, which was taken over by Car 2000 after the scandal. Last Tuesday Amber, with two other victims of the Rochdale grooming gang, finally received an apology delivered personally by Stephen Watson, the chief constable of Greater Manchester police (GMP). Operation Span was the investigation launched in December 2009 into allegations made against the individuals who were convicted in 2012, and others. 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. But once the CPS advised the GMP that she was no longer seen as a suspect, she was persuaded by Oliver to begin a series of video interviews and ID parades. [34], A report by The Times on 5 January 2011, related to convictions for child sex grooming in the North and Midlands. 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. "[37][38] Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the Ramadhan Foundation, accused elders of the Pakistani community of "burying their heads in the sand" on the matter of sexual grooming. Kabeer Hassan was sentenced to nine years for rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Oliver had been headhunted to join the grooming gangs case as detective and victim liaison officer in 2010 because of her experience working with vulnerable victims. 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[9] The men were aged between 24-59 and all knew each other. "I've had a lot of problems in the past, suicide attempts and drinking, but now I know something is being done to prevent it happening again. When we met in a hotel in Rochdale last month, Amber was accompanied by Maggie Oliver, a former police detective who walked out of the job in protest at the way Amber had been treated. There were therefore many still walking free that had evaded detection. At the time, she was living with an older victim but when she became pregnant by one of the men, she moved back in with her parents. But she changed her mind when Operation Span came knocking and she was given cast iron assurances the victims would be supported. 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