[22] Operation Doublet was launched at the same time as an investigation into child grooming and sexual abuse in the region. There was a complete lack of appreciation of the world in which some of the girls lived - when in fact that should have framed every conversation . 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). Abdul Rauf was sentenced to six years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. I'm only a kid - why is it always me? 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. [13], As a result of the CPS dropping the case, the police halted their investigation, which was resumed when a second girl made complaints of a similar nature in December 2009. Operation Span was the investigation launched in December 2009 into allegations made against the individuals who were convicted in 2012, and others. Afterwards, she told me: I went home, put it to the back of my mind to be honest. 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. Department: 7014 LCMT CASE MGMT. One in five children and young people who go missing from home or care is at risk of serious harm, with major concerns about the links between children running away and the risks of child sexual exploitation, it said. [41][42][43], Two of the convicted gang members worked at Eagle Taxis, which was taken over by Car 2000 after the scandal. Were told 84% of grooming gangs are Asian. etween 2008 and 2010, a child abuse ring that came to be known as part of the grooming gang phenomenon operated in Rochdale. [10] The gang worked to secure underage girls to rape and exploit.[11][12]. 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. [2] One gang member convicted of sex trafficking was a religious studies teacher at a mosque and a married father of five. Speaking before the airing of a new BBC1 drama, Three Girls - which tells the story of three victims in the 2012 Rochdale sex grooming case - Margaret Oliver said police had still not learned. 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. Cryer said, "Neither the police nor social services would touch those cases. The report also showed that more than 3,000 children under the age of 18 were reported missing in Greater Manchester in 2014. You have only got my kind here. The ID parades were particularly gruelling for Amber, who did 12 in one day alone, correctly identifying 10 of her abusers. She added: "The danger with saying that the problem is with one ethnicity is that then people will only be on the lookout for that group and will risk missing other threats. In a disused hotel ballroom just off the M60 in Greater Manchester, she describes to us how the authorities knew she was at risk, but failed to stop the abuse. She told me: It wasnt like a forced thing. I didnt know what that meant. She was held in custody for hours before being released on bail. The police were called. Another night - this time in 2007 - Daisy says she was burnt with a heated metal spoon as punishment for refusing to have sex with a man at a house party. "[The police] messed up, not me. Nine men between 24 and 38 years old were arrested on suspicion of sexual activity with a child. May stated the revocations were "conducive to the public good". Her evidence helped put abusers behind bars, yet Amber was vilified by the authorities and says her torment will never end. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. There was a "shocking" inability to protect seven vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation, a report into the Rochdale grooming case has said. "Lessons must be learnt from this report and measures implemented to ensure no other vulnerable children are treated as at fault. Even when the authorities did recognise the problem, their slow reaction allowed the abusers to carry on exploiting their victims for years. Kabeer Hassan was sentenced to nine years for rape and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. They were overlooked, they were discriminated against.. But before what turned out to be the final interview, Oliver says she started to notice a change in tone from senior officers, and felt they were now deliberately trying to push this victim away. 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. "We have got a number of girls in Rochdale that we believe are being abused and many of them will not talk to us and, even if they did, will not tell us about what is happening and certainly don't want to make a complaint because that means they go into the criminal justice system.". Abdul Aziz, 51, Adil Khan, 51, and Qari Rauf, 52,. What the police and CPS did to me was worse than the abuse The apology will be a kind of a weight lifted from me. But the nightmare will never really be over. It was only when she met Oliver in early 2012 that things started to change. [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 they did to me was evil, they ripped away my dignity, my self-esteem," she said. [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. Her mother was not allowed to be with her during the interview, and there was no mention of an appropriate adult. But when the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) reviewed the case in summer 2009, it was decided that the girl "would not be viewed as a credible witness" - a decision not appealed against by GMP - and no prosecution was brought. 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. The review recommended a "speedy resolution" to leadership failures. [22] Suggestions emerged that police and social work departments failed to act when details of the gang emerged for fear of appearing racist, and vulnerable white teenagers being groomed by Pakistani men were ignored. A serious case review by the Rochdale. The serious case review looked at six girls who suffered sexual exploitation in Heywood, Rochdale between 2007 and 2010. Finally, officers did not challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. At the crash site of 'no hope' - BBC reporter in Greece. Instead, when she became upset and disruptive, she was arrested and later convicted of disorderly behaviour. "We have to remember that in most of those cases, the girls themselves did not regard themselves as victims and were not willing to make complaints and that is still the situation now," he said. Amber was also threatened at gunpoint by a man whom she subsequently identified to the police. Critics say the delays meant more girls were left to be abused while the criminal justice system slowly changed its course. [5], In March 2015, Greater Manchester Police apologised for its failure to investigate the child sexual exploitation allegations more thoroughly between 2008 and 2010. 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. Updated 10:45, 3 JUL 2017. '", 'We should have listened to he broken teenagers'. 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. [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. 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. Actress Maxine Peake starred in the series as Sara Rowbotham, the sexual health aid worker who first uncovered the patterns of severe abuse in the area, but struggled to bring it to the attention of authorities. Handout pictures released by Greater Manchester police in 2012 show eight of nine men convicted in connection with the child sexual exploitation ring. It was outrageous. 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. I push thoughts about the abuse out of my head. The investigation was suddenly scrapped with no-one arrested or charged. [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. Rochdale grooming case - what really happened? "Why have I still got a criminal record? Mohammed Sajid was sentenced to 12 years for rape, sexual activity with a girl under 16, trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. Craving love and attention, Amber was lured into a nightmare, subjected to repeated and often violent sexual abuse. 2023 BuzzFeed, Inc. All rights reserved. Cockbain and Brayley expressed concern that "findings were being overextended from a small, geographically concentrated sample to characterise an entire crime type". A June 2008 report identified 50 children in the town at risk of sexual exploitation. A serious case review by the Rochdale. A June 2008 report to Rochdale safeguarding children board had identified 50 children at risk of sexual exploitation. Three women who were groomed, raped and abused by gangs of men in Rochdale have received "substantial" damages and an apology from Greater Manchester Police. Finally, she has been exonerated. Research has found that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. [9] The men were aged between 24-59 and all knew each other. 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. [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. Because she was not involved in the trial, and therefore did not give evidence, she had no opportunity to defend herself. Three Girls: Maggie Oliver says known paedophiles are still abusing girls in Rochdale and authorities are 'more interested in covering up mistakes', according to one officer who was involved. 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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 think it's wrong that she be held back in this way.". I felt sick, got upset nothing never no one from police came to me to explain why I was no longer going to court. Rochdale is also being considered as part of the Independent Inquiry Into Child Sexual Abuse, which is examining whether authorities across the country took the problem seriously. 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. Known as the "Rochdale Grooming" case, over 1400 vulnerable children were systematically abused by gangs of men between 2005 and 2013. Five of the girls had "clearly" needed help and intervention by safeguarding agencies before the abuse began, the report said. The BBC drama Three Girls was based on the Rochdale child sexual abuse scandal. "I wouldn't go out of the house for nine months on my own without my mum or dad, because I was frightened," she said. Speaking at the conclusion of a 10-week trial at Liverpool Crown. Stephen Watson says force had lacked professional curiosity when it came to young victims of grooming gangs 19 Apr 2022 Rochdale victim: 'I was groomed at 14, then the courts came for my. They dont give a fuck when youre not from a wealthy background.. The testimony of one of the five victims of the Rochdale grooming ring revealed the depth of the exploitation she suffered. 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. A much bigger case had been built but, importantly, he simply believed his star witness. But the consequences of what happened to her are still preventing her from moving on with her life. [25] Furthermore, The Times article alleged: "with the exception of one town there is scant evidence of work being undertaken in British Pakistani communities to confront the problem" of "pimping gangs" largely consisting of "members of the British Pakistani community". I asked Amber what gave her the strength to give evidence to the police, after what she had gone through. 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. "[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. What about them? [1][8] Most of the men were married and well-respected within their community. 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. 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. Police said the victims were from chaotic, council estate backgrounds and as many as 50 girls could have been victims of the gang. Or by navigating to the user icon in the top right. Another five-year sentence was given to Abdul Qayyum for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children, while Hamid Safi received four years for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. When police arrived, she says they did not believe her version of events. FA Cup quarter-final draw in full as Manchester United and Man City discover opponents, Four Premier League sides remain in the competition, Manchester United vs West Ham LIVE highlights and reaction from FA Cup as Garnacho scores. Daisy had ambitions to become a social worker, to use her painful past to help others in the future. I think it was because they were afraid of being called racist. She plans to become a social worker, partly due to the ordeal she suffered while still a vulnerable young girl. 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". Two members of the grooming gang the gangs ringleader Shabir Ahmed and Kabeer Hassan were arrested and released on bail. 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This means that we may include adverts from us and third parties based on our knowledge of you. Greater Manchester Police has been accused of 'blanking' three Rochdale grooming victims who have been trying to progress legal action against the force for over 18 months. She's now in her late 20s. "Our understanding [of these crimes] at the time wasn't as developed and our practice wasn't as improved as it is today. [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. One victim was forced to have sex with at least 20 men in one night; another was forced to drink vodka, and was vomiting over the side of the bed while being raped by countless men. 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. [53], On 13 March 2015, Greater Manchester Police apologised for its failure to investigate child sexual exploitation allegations more thoroughly between 2008 and 2010. There was a string of different inquiries into what went wrong. A senior police officer has joined calls for a review on criminal records of child exploitation victims. She has forced the police and social services to apologise to her for their behaviour. [31], In late 2011, the Office of the Children's Commissioner began a two-year long inquiry into child sexual exploitation by street gangs. In relation to historical failures, he apologised to Daisy. Man United beat West Ham United 3-1 in the fifth round of the FA Cup at Old Trafford on Wednesday evening. Their treatment encompasses a range of catastrophic errors in one of the countrys most harrowing child sexual abuse scandals. She said that seven officers had been served with misconduct notices, but no further disciplinary action would be taken against them. Taxi drivers with nick-names like Car Zero and Master Aziz, a pillar of Rochdale's Pakistani community known as Tiger and a Muslim preacher were . At best this was distracting for leaders and influenced the areas that resources were focused on". 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Read about our approach to external linking. 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 continued to receive phone calls from her abusers, and cars with drivers she recognised were parking outside. Abdul Aziz received a similar sentence: nine years (concurrently) for trafficking for sexual exploitation and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with children. 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. Why can't I get a job? Read about our approach to external linking. "[45], In May 2017, the BBC broadcast Three Girls, a miniseries about the case. 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'. "[32] Further research has been pursued since late 2011 by the Office of the Children's Commissioner. [25][26][27] A report by the deputy children's commissioner in 2012 said that 33% of child sex abuse by gangs in Britain was committed by British Asians, where Asians are 7% of the population, but concluded that it was "irresponsible" to dwell on the data. But because of an obligation to disclose criminal convictions, she has been prevented from pursuing her chosen career. It drew statistics from organisations such as Barnardo's but the findings were considered inconclusive by expert academics because not all the figures had been compiled in the same way and ethnicity had not always been noted with each reported crime. But the investigation, according to one officer who was involved, was a car crash. He said there was no doubt she was a victim of horrendous abuse and exploitation and he accepted that the police response "could and should have been better". "I tried to say no in a nice way, but he wasn't having it.". The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The report came on the same day five men were jailed for grooming a teenage girl. And more than that, she was among a band of white girls who were being specifically targeted by a gang of largely Pakistani-heritage men because, as the trial judge would later acknowledge, the mens victims were not of your community or religion. "They threaten you, and you're scared of them, and that's how they make you do it.". 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. 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.. Police began to investigate child grooming in Rochdale almost by accident. Address: CA Torrance 4101 Torrance Blvd. Id been used. This reluctance was because shed been in this position before. 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. [16], The trial concluded in May 2012 with the nine convictions. 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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 BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. The trial of nine of the grooming gang was pending, and in the meantime, despite never having been informed, arrested or cautioned, Amber was added to the indictment by the CPS as a co-conspirator. The man she accused of assaulting her walked free. 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