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A brutal sex gang raped as many as 1,000 young girls over 40 years in what may be Britain's 'worst ever' child abuse scandal.
Girls in the town of Telford, Shropshire, were drugged, beaten and raped at the hands of a grooming gang active since the 1980s.
Allegations are said to have been mishandled by authorities, with many perpetrators going unpunished, while it is claimed similar abuse continues in the area, reports the Sunday Mirror.
Home Office figures show there were 15.1 child sex crimes reported per 10,000 residents in the year to September 2015.
Telford's population is 155,000 – meaning a potential 225 victims.
However, it was revealed she had suffered two years of sex abuse at the hands of a grooming gang, which began when she was 11.
In tragic diary entries she told of how she was forced to 'sleep around'.
Her mother, Torron Watson, went to the police on a number of occasion and even handed them a list of suspects.
But nothing was done.
She said: 'Girls like Becky were treated like criminals. I was crying out for help but it felt like I had nowhere to turn. If Becky's abuse had been properly investigated by the authorities more girls could have been saved from going through this hell.'
Vicky Round, a friend of Becky’s, was abused by the same gang.
They forced her into a crack concaine addiction aged 12.
By 14 she was taking heroine regularly.
She died aged 20 after a suspected drug overdose.
And it has now been revealed that two whitstleblowers who wanted to raise their concerns about the crimes were hushed and one woman even lost her job.
According to the Mirror, police chaplain Keith Osmund-Smith was suspended after he passed papers to the newspaper and a report commissioned by the council revealed social workers knew of the sex crimes before the turn of the millennium.
Meanwhile, a woman who was hired by sex abuse charity Axis Counselling, based in Shrewsbury, was forced to leave her role after she tried to speak up.
An official investigation into the systemic abuse in Telford, U.K. wasn’t launched until roughly a decade after authorities first learned of it, according to the Sunday Mirror.
British authorities failed to meaningfully address an epidemic of child prostitution that claimed as many as 1,000 victims over the past three decades, according to a new report by the Sunday Mirror.
The report reveals that authorities in the town of Telford became aware of the scale of the problem in the 1990s, but failed to prevent the continued drugging, beating, and rape of hundreds of girls, some of whom were as young as eleven, until an official investigation was launched roughly a decade later.
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Police avoided sharing information about the abusers with Telford’s Asian community for fear of being called racist, the report alleges. Social workers in the town, meanwhile, treated the victims as “prostitutes,” according to police records.
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The Telford scandal resembles those exposed in the British towns of Rotherham and Rochdale, but is longer running and likely claimed many more victims.
originally posted by: bigfatfurrytexan
From what I can gather based on the UK headlines over the last 3 years: "Officially", it is wrong to rape children. But officially, its just fine and dandy while being punishable to speak out on it.
The Telford child sex abuse ring consisted of a group of British-Asian men grooming local children for sex between 2007 and 2009 in Telford in the English county of Shropshire. Up to 100 girls are believed to have been affected[4] and around 200 perpetrators were suspected.[5] According to the Home Office, as of 2015, Telford had the highest rate of sex crimes against children of any city in the United Kingdom. Telford has a population of just under 170,000 people.
A brutal sex gang raped as many as 1,000 young girls over 40 years in what may be Britain's 'worst ever' child abuse scandal.
Girls in the town of Telford, Shropshire, were drugged, beaten and raped at the hands of a grooming gang active since the 1980s.