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. [7] Actress Lesley Sharp played the police detective Margaret Oliver in the series. "I tried to say no in a nice way, but he wasn't having it.". He said that of convictions involving child sexual exploitation, 87% were of British Pakistani men and it was a significant problem for that community. 'We are not going to stop' - Mikel Arteta sends Man City title message after Arsenal win, Manchester City now trail Arsenal by five points in the Premier League table after the Gunners beat Everton 4-0 on Wednesday night, Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp learns Real Madrid lesson ahead of Manchester United clash, Liverpool beat Wolves in the Premier League on Wednesday and face Man United this weekend, West Ham manager David Moyes delivers bullish verdict on FA Cup defeat to Manchester United. Must demonstrate independence and competence in the duties on a variety of procedures. It's now 10 years since the start of the police investigation that led to the Rochdale grooming trial. There were fears that press involvement would frighten the girls away. He shouted in court, "Where are the white people? Who were the men in the Rochdale grooming gang and what happened to them? I didnt want other people to feel how I felt. Her courage and Olivers support resulted in a database of abusers whom she identified by names, car registrations, telephone numbers and addresses. The man she accused of assaulting her walked free. But the investigation, according to one officer who was involved, was a car crash. "It will always be there, but I know how to deal with it," she said. And then, in July 2009, an experienced CPS lawyer ruled the victim was not credible and decided that the two men who raped her should be released without charge. Amber was also threatened at gunpoint by a man whom she subsequently identified to the police. I'm only a kid - why is it always me? A second serious case review looked at a separate case involving a seventh girl. There was a string of different inquiries into what went wrong. But she changed her mind when Operation Span came knocking and she was given cast iron assurances the victims would be supported. It is committed by abusers from all walks of life, ethnicities, cultures and classes and it robs children of their childhoods and tears families apart. A serious case review by the Rochdale. It was not until summer 2011 that Nazir Afzal, the new regional head of the CPS, reversed the decision not to prosecute. The testimony of one of the five victims of the Rochdale grooming ring revealed the depth of the exploitation she suffered. Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the countrys most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals. Without Ambers initial evidence there might never have been a trial at all. Nine men between 24 and 38 years old were arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child. A serious case review by the Rochdale. Last month we met Daisy*, who found herself at the centre of the scandal all those years ago. Some of the men involved were arrested, tried and found guilty. He said the investigation was at "an extremely sensitive stage" and street grooming was the force's top priority, "a bigger priority than gun crime". Child sexual exploitation has been uncovered in towns, cities and counties all over the country and it affects both girls and boys from all backgrounds. Shed been the victim of abuse from the age of 14. After a troubled upbringing, Amber had been placed on the child protection register as being at risk of sexual and emotional abuse and neglect. Now they werent prepared to do that. Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. Nazir Afzal, chief prosecutor in the North West - who overturned the original CPS decision not to prosecute over allegations of abuse in 2009 - said: "I absolutely accept that things didn't go well for us and other agencies. Critics say the delays meant more girls were left to be abused while the criminal justice system slowly changed its course. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. Why can't I get a job? Cockbain and Brayley expressed concern that "findings were being overextended from a small, geographically concentrated sample to characterise an entire crime type". [10] The gang worked to secure underage girls to rape and exploit.[11][12]. 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. She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the Honey Monster. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. [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. This vulnerable girl had been failed.. BBC Ones new drama Three Girls launched on Tuesday to five million viewers. had learned about the investigation but after approaching GMP we were told to hold off until the victims had been spoken to. 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. Nazir Afzal, the newly-appointed chief crown prosecutor for the north west, reversed the decision not to prosecute the two who had been arrested and eventually authorised the charging of ten men in June 2011. But not all. "You will be supported and you will be heard.". By then police were investigating allegations from another girl about on-street grooming in Heywood. The men, she said, were friendly at first, simply chatting with the girls now and again in a takeaway shop. One of their victims tells her story. [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. 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. One 13-year-old victim became pregnant and had an abortion. [47] However this report was "fiercely" criticised for its unscientific nature and poor methodology by child sexual exploitation experts Ella Cockbain and Waqas Tufail, in their paper "Failing Victims, Fuelling Hate: Challenging the Harms of the 'Muslim grooming gangs' Narrative" which was published in January 2020. [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. A significant proportion of cases were labelled as no further action needed and the leadership team were not interested in childrens social care. ', "We haven't sorted out a solution to these really complex issues about young people.". Sir Peter said Police and Crime Commissioner Tony Lloyd has set up an independent commission to look into the handling of cases involving teenagers with chaotic lifestyles. *To protect her identity the victim's name has been changed. But when she was just 12, she was groomed and sexually abused by gangs of adult men. 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. 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. Two worked for the same taxi firm and another two worked at a takeaway restaurant; some came from the same village in Pakistan and another two men shared a flat. One father called Children's Social Care (CSC) up to 50 times, reporting his daughter's "uncontrollable drinking, running away and difficult behaviour". [20], Four of the convicted, Shabir Ahmed, Adil Khan, Abdul Rauf and Abdul Aziz, who had dual British and Pakistani citizenships, were denaturalized (stripped of their British citizenship) by then Home Secretary Theresa May in order for them to be deported to Pakistan. Writing for HuffPost UK, chief executive Javed Khan of childrens charity Barnardos described Three Girls as absolutely vital viewing.. [1] The abusers paid small sums of money for the encounters. Id been used. etween 2008 and 2010, a child abuse ring that came to be known as part of the grooming gang phenomenon operated in Rochdale. 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. 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 2009, when Amber was 16, uniformed officers arrived at her mothers house, arrested her and took her to the police station. "That can't make sense.". Department: 7014 LCMT CASE MGMT. [24], The case raised a serious debate about whether the crimes were racially motivated. 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. [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. Harriet Wistrich, director of the Centre for Women's Justice, is supporting Daisy in a civil action against Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service. My name has been dragged through the mud. The men who abused her have never been prosecuted. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said that about 550 officers were working on Operation Doublet in May 2013. 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. She not only suffered at the time [of the abuse] but she continues to suffer because of the criminal records. "Why have I still got a criminal record? 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. The NSPCC offers support to children on 0800 1111, and adults concerned about a child on 0808 800 5000. Some of you acted as you did to satiate your lust, some of you to make money, all of you treated them as though they were worthless and beyond respect.. It was only when she met Oliver in early 2012 that things started to change. Rochdale grooming case: what really happened? [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. What about them? Something went wrong, please try again later. "[36] Narey rejected the idea that such gangs were specifically targeting white girls, but suggested vulnerable girls on the street were more likely to be white since Asian girls were subjected to strict parenting and were more likely to be kept off the streets. Her act of pent-up frustration in the takeaway - followed by her bravery in speaking out - was the first step, a key moment that would lead to questions about the part which racial identity played in sexual grooming of children in the town and in other places up and down the country. We need to remember and learn from the mistakes of the past to ensure they are not repeated. She told me: It wasnt like a forced thing. On one occasion he ordered a girl aged 15 to have sex with Kabeer Hassan, as a "treat" for his birthday Hassan then raped the girl. Three Girls review a brave new focus on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal, Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning. I gave hours of interviews, reliving all the abuse. Rochdale grooming gang members could be deported to Pakistan; . There was a complete lack of understanding of the world in which they existed. She says she was never informed by police either that she was no longer being treated as a victim, or that none of those she alleged to be her abusers was to be prosecuted for her abuse. Abdul Rauf was sentenced to six years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Greater Manchester Police said officers are becoming want to make sure Payton is 'safe and well'. Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The picture which emerged was one of vulnerable young girls, some as young as 10, who were being targeted for sexual abuse and written off by authorities who believed the girls were making their own choices. [32], Hilary Willmer, representing a Leeds-based support group for parents of sexually exploited girls, the Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (Crop), was quoted as saying "The vast majority [of] perpetrators are Pakistani Asians",[35] with sources inside Crop claiming a percentage as high as 80 per cent although, The Independent said that "Kurdish, Romanian and Albanian gangs were also involved". They had to be assured that, as victims of sex crimes, they would be guaranteed anonymity for life. She specifically spoke of her abuse at the hands of two members of the gang who would later be jailed four years. After a while, the girl was being driven to different houses or flats where there would be other men waiting. "It's not an excuse that's the reality of where we are. Willmer added: "We think this is the tip of the iceberg", although she cautioned against treating the matter as a race crime: "It's a criminal thing. The men led the girls to believe they were in relationships with some of them, and it was normal to have sex. 2023 BBC. File on 4 - Groomed, abused and put in prison: Rochdale's untold story will be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Tuesday 14 July at 20:00 BST and repeated on Sunday 19 July at 17:00 BST. Last May. Shabir Ahmed received the longest sentence, 19 years for rape, aiding and abetting a rape, sexual assault, trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Nine men were convicted, of whom eight were of British Pakistani origin and one was an Afghan asylum-seeker. I push thoughts about the abuse out of my head. 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 uncovered would become a national scandal. 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. 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. [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. 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She told me: Police werent arsed with us, really. The organisation defined underage grooming as any situation where a child or young person received a gift in exchange for sexual favours. Abdul Aziz, 51, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Rauf, 52,. The convictions she received as a teen continue to hold her back to this day. Shabir Ahmed, who abused dozens of vulnerable teenagers, was known as "Dadd Operation Span was the investigation launched in December 2009 into allegations made against the individuals who were convicted in 2012, and others. "[The police] messed up, not me. 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. Why has nothing happened to these men? [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." [2][3][4] The men were British Pakistanis, which led to discussion on whether the failure to investigate them was linked to the authorities' fear of being accused of racial prejudice. [32], In 2011, the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre launched a five-month long investigation into whether there was a link between racial profile and the crime of underage grooming. [1][8] Most of the men were married and well-respected within their community. Maggie Oliver was again left fuming when one of the girls she had talked round - a victim of abuse - was placed in the indictment that went before the jury. 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. [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. "[32], The former head of Barnardo's, Martin Narey, said on BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "For this particular type of crime, the street grooming of teenage girls in northern towns there is very troubling evidence that Asians are overwhelmingly represented in the prosecutions for such offences. I think it's wrong that she be held back in this way.". Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. "[45], In May 2017, the BBC broadcast Three Girls, a miniseries about the case. Assistant Chief Constable Mabs Hussain of Greater Manchester Police told the BBC he thought while cases should be reviewed on an individual basis, now was the time for a wider, national debate in cases where young people may have been criminalised as a result of exploitation. Known as the "Rochdale Grooming" case, over 1400 vulnerable children were systematically abused by gangs of men between 2005 and 2013. The abuse then continued, with a number of men who she had not seen before joining in. 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It resulted in the conviction of nine men for offences including rape and human. 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. "Lessons must be learnt from this report and measures implemented to ensure no other vulnerable children are treated as at fault. [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. Amber still sees those whom she says raped, beat and tortured her, out and about in Rochdale. Adil Khan was sentenced to eight years for the same offences. [1][2], The oldest person to be convicted, Shabir Ahmed,[16] was for a while the main trafficker of the victims. Furious, Maggie vowed never to be part of such an investigation in future. This reluctance was because shed been in this position before. She had worked on Operation Augusta in 2004 which examined the sexual abuse of white girls by Asian men in Hulme and Rusholme. At best this was distracting for leaders and influenced the areas that resources were focused on". By entering your email and clicking Sign Up, you're agreeing to let us send you customized marketing messages about us and our advertising partners. In response to Ambers claim that it was wrong to name her on the indictment, it says it was both legally and tactically the correct course to take. Updated 10:47, 10 JUN 2020. 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. [9] The men were aged between 24-59 and all knew each other. In The Betrayed Girls, they speak to survivors, . At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Men alleged to be part of a child-grooming ring in Rochdale were never brought to justice because the evidence of teenage victims was not pursued, according a former police officer. The inspector concluded the abuse could have stopped if the authorities had stepped in sooner. The BBC drama Three Girls was based on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal. Of the 56 offenders convicted since 1997 for crimes relating to on-street grooming of girls aged 11 to 16, three were white, 53 were Asian of which 50 were Muslim, and most were from the British Pakistani community. [52], In December 2013, the case review by Rochdale County was leaked, which highlighted findings from an internal police investigation. [17], Victims were physically assaulted and raped by as many as five men at a time,[1] or obliged to have sex with "several men in a day, several times a week". Behind the scenes, however, there was consternation. The period during the buildup to the trial of the men accused of being part of the grooming gang, was dark for Amber. He said the actions of criminals who thought "white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused" were "bringing shame on our community. Handout pictures released by Greater Manchester police in 2012 show eight of nine men convicted in connection with the child sexual exploitation ring. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. Were told 84% of grooming gangs are Asian. [19] 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 "What they did to me was evil, they ripped away my dignity, my self-esteem," she said. 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 never thought that they would do what they did to me, because you don't think that would happen.". You have only got my kind here. The women, who cannot be named for. Between 2008 and 2010, a child abuse ring that came to be known as part of the grooming gang phenomenon operated in Rochdale, Greater Manchester. We use your sign-up to provide content in the ways you've consented to and improve our understanding of you. 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. 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. 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