BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal

Subject: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 03:57 PM

How does an abused teenager get a criminal record while her abusers walk free? This is untold story of the Rochdale grooming scandal - how one young woman has been denied justice and how her attackers are still at large. For the very first time, 'Daisy' tells her harrowing story to File on 4. How, from the age of 12, she was groomed, raped and abused by a gang of men. The abuse led her to be involved in some criminal behaviour - but when the police investigated and she told them what was happening, she says she was ignored. She was sent to prison, where, for the first time since the abuse started, she says she felt safe. But when she was released, it started again. The police have admitted some failures but, a decade after they launched their investigation into systematic and organised abuse, Daisy and two other young women, who were also abused, are now taking civil action against Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service.
Producer: Sally Chesworth
Reporter: Alys Harte
Editor: Carl Johnston
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000kv7v

Subject: RE: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: Steve Shaw
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 04:50 PM

It was a very disturbing listen, for sure.

Subject: RE: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: Mrrzy
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 05:57 PM

Also sounds like the story is being told, now. And about time, thanks for helping tell it.

Subject: RE: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: Jack Campin
Date: 19 Jul 20 - 07:29 PM

The ultimate blame for this lies much further back in time, to 1990, when the Rochdale police were persuaded by a group of American fundies that there was a Satanist cult abusing children on their turf. The result was that 19 children were legally kidnapped and it took ten years for their families to clear themselves of these delusional accusations.

Now put yourself in the position of a Rochdale cop a decade later when you get ANOTHER sexual abuse gang accusation. Are you going to let yourself in for a repeat performance of making a catastrophic fool of yourself and your force?

The "Satanic Ritual Abuse" mythmakers (notably Ray Wyre) have a hell of a lot to answer for.

Subject: RE: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 01:26 AM

Jack that is debatable.Have you listened to the programme?I would have thought that certain procedures should ALWAYS befollowed regardless of American fundies or whatever.
coincindentally this was the area where Cyril Smith MP practised abusing childrenIn 2012, following allegations of child abuse, the Crown Prosecution Service formally admitted that Smith should have been charged with the sexual abuse of boys during his lifetime. Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the boys "were victims of physical and sexual abuse" by Smith.[6][7] In November 2012, GMP Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood said there was "overwhelming evidence" that young boys were sexually and physically abused by Smith.[8] In April 2014, it was reported that there had been 144 complaints against Smith from victims as young as eight, but attempts to prosecute him had always been blocked. Public authorities including Rochdale Borough Council, the police and intelligence services have been implicated in covering up Smith's crimes.[9] In 2015, it emerged that Smith had been arrested in the early 1980s in relation to these offences, but a high-level cover-up reportedly led to his being released within hours, the evidence destroyed and the investigating officers prevented from discussing the matter under the Official Secrets Act.[10]

Subject: RE: BS: Rochdale Grooming scandal
From: The Sandman
Date: 22 Jul 20 - 02:13 AM

Public authorities including Rochdale Borough Council, the police and intelligence services have been implicated in covering up Smith's crimes.Rochdale police AGAIN