Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)
SCANDAL: VICTIMS WERE IGNORED
I was pregnant 6 times during 4 years of abuse
hooked on crack at 12 and heroin by 14. She died at 20 of a drugs incident. Sister Emma said: “Those who made her life hell still walk the streets.”
Police probe Operation Chalice, identified at least 100 potential victims between 2007 and 2009 – but just nine were jailed and the case was closed.
Among them were: Mubarek Ali, 34, jailed for 14 years, and brother Ahdel, 27, for 18. They were both convicted of a string of horrific child sex crimes at Worcester crown court in 2012.
Police said there could have been as
A TEENAGER says she begged cops to investigate her rape five times but they only took action when her MP helped.
The girl, now 19, claims she told social workers she was being groomed online aged 13, in 2013, but they did nothing.
She says the man, described as white and in his 30s, lured her to his home and attacked her two years later. The many as 200 abusers. But Professor Liz Kelly, of London Metropolitan University’s Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit, estimated the number of victims, based on our investigation, as up to 1,000. Freedom of Information Act papers revealed two predatory paedophiles had begun targeting girls from a local children’s home in 1981.
Today we can also reveal officers were allegedly told as early as 1996 about one of the key players who is said to have made thousands grooming girls and selling them for mixed-race girl claims she contacted police repeatedly but they wouldn’t probe allegations or take a statement.
She was eventually interviewed at MP Lucy Allan’s office and it is understood the man she accused has been arrested. sex. One victim gave so much evidence to police in 2010 that officers launched a probe, called Operation Thesis, around her evidence. But this led to no prosecutions.
When the victim last year asked for her police files to understand why nobody had faced justice, the officer handling her request admitted she had “expressed concerns” to a senior detective.
He also played a leading role in Operation Chalice. He sent an officer to the victim’s home who allegedly tried to discourage her. When files were provided months later, the first disk was unreadable. Whistleblower Chaplain Osmundsmith has returned to work.
Police said: “An internal investigation was carried out and made a number of recommendations which we have worked with him to address.”
The second whistleblower won an out-ofcourt settlement on a no fault basis. Axis Counselling declined to comment.
Since 2014, Campion and predecessor Bill Longmore have A SCHOOLGIRL was pregnant six times in four years after being targeted by abusers in 2004.
She was just 15 when a suspected drug dealer in his 20s and another man preyed on the girl for four years.
The girl had a baby to each man, and three abortions and one miscarriage.
She lived in fear of violence. Council given Axis Counselling nearly £1million in grants. Campion denied knowledge of the woman’s situation.
He said: “I’ve bolstered specialist support for victims of sexual violence, and Axis has a record of delivering the right support to extremely vulnerable people in Telford and Shropshire.”
Former Shadow Equalities Minister and Rotherham MP Sarah Champion last night joined Ms Allan’s calls for a government inquiry. She said: “It’s definitely time.”
Telford council leader Shaun Davies says he will ask for the Telford aspect of a national child sexual exploitation probe to be moved forward.