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== Stories ==
== Stories ==
* Secretly took the aborted foetus of a 13-year-old grooming victim in order to do a DNA test without telling the girl or her parents and took no immediate action. The foetus was then placed in the freezer at Rochdale police station and forgotten about until a “routine property review” some time later.<ref name="abuse">https://archive.is/IpZKB</ref>
* Children were left at the mercy of their abusers because of an inadequate response by [[Greater Manchester Police]] and [[Rochdale council]]’s children’s social care. Many men were not brought to justice as a result, they added.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* Girl continued to be exploited for several years and at one point was at risk of being taken to Pakistan by her abusers.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* Report identified at least 96 individuals who potentially pose a risk to children, most of whom have yet to be prosecuted.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* When cases did eventually reach court, [[Greater Manchester Police]] left the young victims to be “harassed and intimidated by the men who had previously abused them”, sometimes at gunpoint.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* [[Greater Manchester Police]] took no action in the case of a 15-year-old girl who gave birth to a child of her "pimp".<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* One child told [[Greater Manchester Police]] that her abusers kept girls in cages and "made them bark like a dog or dress like a baby", but took no action once she left Greater Manchester and was put in care elsewhere.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* In an "incredible example of poor practice", one victim, known as Amber, was herself arrested and then bailed to live with a man who had already been arrested on suspicion of child sexual exploitation.<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* The [[Crown Prosecution Service]], in consultation with [[Greater Manchester Police]], decided to name Amber as a co-conspirator in the sexual exploitation of other children in a trial of her abusers, in what the authors describe as "deplorable further abuse of a CSE survivor".<ref name="abuse"></ref>
* Children were left at the mercy of their abusers because of an inadequate response by [[Greater Manchester Police]] and [Rochdale council’s] children’s social care. Many men were not brought to justice as a result, they added.<ref name="abuse"></ref>


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Revision as of 17:26, 11 February 2024

Stories

  • Children were left at the mercy of their abusers because of an inadequate response by Greater Manchester Police and Rochdale council’s children’s social care. Many men were not brought to justice as a result, they added.[1]

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Notes

  1. ↑ Cite error: Invalid <ref> tag; no text was provided for refs named abuse
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