OF TELFORD SCARED TO SPEAK OUT BY SHAME
Leader of Telford Council Shaun Davies
about me, even though I was raped and abused like all my white friends.
“My life was hell too, but people think these things don’t happen to girls like me because of the colour of our skin. In the end, I had to get out.”
When we urged her to contact the police, she insisted: “I’ll probably never tell, it would be so painful for my family.”
But when she sees far-right groups coming to Telford she feels her suffering has been ignored, that girls like her “don’t matter”.
Another girl, now in her 20s, told how she was preyed on by a relative linked to a notorious group of abusers, who raped her from the age of 11.
Like countless others, she was taken to local beauty spot The Wrekin, to be abused away from
prying eyes. She said: “The first time, I was 11. He put the bonnet up on his car so passers-by couldn’t see. I was trembling. “I was in so much pain but I didn’t scream. I felt he’d broken me. He said to go home and bath. After that it was three or four times a week for five years.“Her abuser is now dead. Files on another girl, targeted at 15 by two suspected Asian drug dealers, show she fell pregnant four times in six years. Social services, teachers and mental health services were aware of the girl’s plight – but did not inform police. The Sunday Mirror has seen case notes that show authorities admitted failing on “concerns of physical abuse and sexual exploitation”.