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- 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.[1]
- Girl continued to be exploited for several years and at one point was at risk of being taken to Pakistan by her abusers.[1]
- Report identified at least 96 individuals who potentially pose a risk to children, most of whom have yet to be prosecuted.[1]
- 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.[1]
- Greater Manchester Police took no action in the case of a 15-year-old girl who gave birth to a child of her "pimp".[1]
- 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.[1]
- 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.[1]
- 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".[1]
- 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]