[32] Ella Cockbain and Helen Brayley pointed out, "There is no criminal offence of 'on-street grooming' and as a result it is very difficult to measure the extent of the crime based on court statistics. Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the countrys most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals. "They threaten you, and you're scared of them, and that's how they make you do it.". Nine men have been convicted of sexually exploiting young girls in Greater Manchester. She gave the police a list, at an early stage of Operation Span, with nicknames, telephone numbers and other details relating to offenders. Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said that about 550 officers were working on Operation Doublet in May 2013. 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. Amber was understandably reluctant to trust the police. A serious case review by the Rochdale Safeguarding Children Board highlighted failures by 17 agencies who were meant to protect the children. It was outrageous. 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. It was then she told police for the first time what was going on. Abdul Rauf was sentenced to six years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. A much bigger case had been built but, importantly, he simply believed his star witness. I asked Amber what gave her the strength to give evidence to the police, after what she had gone through. She noted that white male predators on the street tend to work alone. She plans to become a social worker, partly due to the ordeal she suffered while still a vulnerable young girl. Read about our approach to external linking. After a while, the girl was being driven to different houses or flats where there would be other men waiting. A significant proportion of cases were labelled as no further action needed and the leadership team were not interested in childrens social care. My name has been dragged through the mud. [2] One gang member convicted of sex trafficking was a religious studies teacher at a mosque and a married father of five. 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. 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. [1] Forty-seven girls were identified as victims of child sexual exploitation during the police investigation. 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"It made me feel like I was pretty. 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. The review recommended a "speedy resolution" to leadership failures. The serious case review looked at six girls who suffered sexual exploitation in Heywood, Rochdale between 2007 and 2010. Shabir Ahmed, who abused dozens of vulnerable teenagers, was known as "Dadd [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". 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. She had a knack of speaking on a human level to estate kids and she was head-hunted by her bosses to persuade them to give evidence in the trial despite the woeful original investigation. 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. "But people can feel some sense of reassurance that we are now bringing more cases to court.". Pay Range: $54.58 - $88.09. Amber was also threatened at gunpoint by a man whom she subsequently identified to the police. 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.. In October 2010 the M.E.N. The convictions she received as a teen continue to hold her back to this day. In subsequent cases, the racial and religious background of perpetrators have been exploited by some - but there have also been accusations that authorities were slow to act on concerns for fear of being dubbed racist. Read about our approach to external linking. The National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac) offers support for adult survivors on 0808 801 0331. "We would get free alcohol and cigarettes, food, free taxis," she said. 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. 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. [34], A report by The Times on 5 January 2011, related to convictions for child sex grooming in the North and Midlands. "Lessons must be learnt from this report and measures implemented to ensure no other vulnerable children are treated as at fault. 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. "You will be supported and you will be heard.". 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There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. "[54], One of the seven officers retired without any sanctions being taken, even though his misconduct was found to have warranted disciplinary action. Kabeer Hassan was sentenced to nine years for rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Instead of being seen as a victim, Daisy was arrested and prosecuted for offences - many directly linked to the abuse she was suffering. 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 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". Rochdale grooming case - what really happened? The man she accused of assaulting her walked free. To date, the CPS has not accepted any failure on its part and instead continues to herald this case as the first successful prosecution of a grooming gang. It revealed that some CSC staff have been subjected to disciplinary action, although no-one is thought to have been sacked. It was only when she met Oliver in early 2012 that things started to change. However, it is not possible to conclude that this is representative of all group-based CSE offending. It was like a casual, Oh, bring your friends. She was a vulnerable child, being sexually abused, controlled and in fear. Man United beat West Ham United 3-1 in the fifth round of the FA Cup at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening. You are also agreeing to our Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. 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. Molly Windsor, Liv Hill and Ria Zmitrowicz feature as a trio of girls drawn into the frightening world of sexual exploitation. 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. have fuelled fight-wing groups opposing multiculturalism and immigration. Furious, Maggie vowed never to be part of such an investigation in future. Last month we met Daisy*, who found herself at the centre of the scandal all those years ago. Speaking at the conclusion of a 10-week trial at Liverpool Crown Court, the woman, who cannot be identified, said she was forced to have sex with up to five different men in a day, at least four times a week. She was vilified and nicknamed in the press as the Honey Monster. I was like, 'why are you not listening? "He asked me to come upstairs and I didn't really think anything of it," she explained. The company's owner said that due to requests, clients could choose to have a white driver but this was reversed after 50 Asian drivers protested. 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. In The Betrayed Girls, they speak to survivors, . [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. Why can't I get a job? [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. 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 grooming and subsequent abuse - which centred around the town of Heywood - began when the woman, now aged 19, was a 15-year-old schoolgirl. 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. Ive got a box in the back of my head, and I just put it all in there and its locked away.. etween 2008 and 2010, a child abuse ring that came to be known as part of the grooming gang phenomenon operated in Rochdale. Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. "I know they believed me, they said to me at the end that something should have been done.". Nine men of mainly Pakistani. 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. "I got picked up so many times by the police and it was always when I was out with adult men," she says. 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. [5], In March 2015, Greater Manchester Police apologised for its failure to investigate the child sexual exploitation allegations more thoroughly between 2008 and 2010. [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]. 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. There was a complete lack of understanding of the world in which they existed. 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. 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. "[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. Sir Peter Fahy said some girls 'don't want to make a complaint because that means they go into the criminal justice system'. When police arrived, she says they did not believe her version of events. One of their victims tells her story. Some of the men involved were arrested, tried and found guilty. The victims, many of whom were from difficult backgrounds and therefore particularly vulnerable, were plied with drugs, alcohol and fast food, and then taken to chill houses across the north of England to be abused. Daisy gave evidence at the Rochdale grooming trial; her testimony about the abuse she witnessed helped put men in prison. [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. Rochdale grooming case: what really happened? 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[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. [25], The findings have been questioned by researchers Ella Cockbain and Helen Brayley, from whose work for the UCL Jill Dando Institute of Security and Crime Science The Times report had drawn much of its evidence. He said the actions of criminals who thought "white teenage girls are worthless and can be abused" were "bringing shame on our community. I agreed to help the police to stop it happening to others, Amber wrote to Oliver in the midst of her campaign for justice. Sheer lack of resource, and also the fact that their bosses seemed reluctant to grasp the nettle for fear of being branded racist, contributed to delays in the investigation. 2023 BBC. The perpetrators would pass the girls to their friends, often to settle a debt. During that period, Amber by now pregnant and living in a one-room flat continued to be targeted by the grooming gangs. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. A second serious case review looked at a separate case involving a seventh girl. 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. Although police interviewed a total of 56 men on suspicion of abuse, only a handful were tried. "[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. "She yearns to put her awful experiences to some value. That nightmare should have ended with the arrest and trial of the perpetrators, but instead the police, Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) and even social services treated her not as a victim but as a perpetrator. 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. said in its review into child sexual exploitation after the trial. Nine men have each been sentenced to up to 25 years in jail for a catalogue of serious sexual offences against teenage girls in Rochdale, exposed following widespread media coverage of grooming. In 2017, the BBC aired the drama "Three Girls" which featured the story of . "That can't make sense.". Abdul Aziz received a similar sentence: nine years (concurrently) for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. 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This resulted in Greater Manchester Police launching Operation Doublet to investigate further claims of abuse with 19 men so far being convicted. 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. On 9 May 2012, the Rochdale grooming trial reached its conclusion. Read about our approach to external linking. More arrests, and more . Jailing them, Judge Gerald Clifton said: You have all been convicted by the jury after a long trial of grave sexual offences which were committed between the spring of 2008 and 2010. Read about our approach to external linking. "At first I thought it was great because nothing sexual had happened, I thought I could just get all of this stuff for free.". "It's not a normal relationship when your boyfriend is getting you to sleep with all his friends for money.". Updated 10:45, 3 JUL 2017. Then, shortly after the ID parade, Oliver was told that they were no longer going to use Ambers evidence. [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. [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. The inspector concluded the abuse could have stopped if the authorities had stepped in sooner. Daisy had ambitions to become a social worker, to use her painful past to help others in the future. 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 The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. 2023 BBC. They had to be assured that, as victims of sex crimes, they would be guaranteed anonymity for life. *To protect her identity the victim's name has been changed. 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. The government would not comment on the Rochdale case but said it had deported more than 51,000 foreign national offenders since 2010. Craving love and attention, Amber was lured into a nightmare, subjected to repeated and often violent sexual abuse. 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