Gangs, Perverts, and Insantiy

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Meanwhile, in the 'Pervert' bracket and on the other side of the Atlantic...

HELLISH ORDEAL I was raped over 100 times from age of 12 by grooming gang
cops secretly took my aborted baby away – I was let down

Ruby was plied with booze then passed around groups of men but her pleas were ignored



'A grooming gang victim who was raped more than 100 times from the age of 12 has revealed
how police secretly took her aborted baby away. The victim, named only as Ruby, says she was
"let down" by cops after she was targeted by Asian gang predators in Rochdale.

She also revealed how police took her aborted foetus away for DNA testing when she was aged
just 13 without telling her. Ruby has bravely decided to speak out against the horror abuse after
a damning report last month found police left children in the city at the "mercy" of grooming gangs.

She told BBC Newsnight she was raped "possibly over a hundred [times]" by men "from all over
the country" for four years. The abuse started when she was 12 after she and a friend were invited
to a flat for a takeaway by a group of older men.

Ruby said at first nothing would happen but after a few weeks, she was plied with a litre of straight
vodka and cigarettes before being led drunk into a room full of people. She said she was raped
"continuously" by up to 40 men, adding: "One would finish [raping me] and then the other one
would come in and it was just like that all night."

Ruby said the gang threatened her and she felt there was "no way out".

They would show up at the victim's school and near her home before taking her away to different
cities where she was repeatedly attacked. Ruby said: "I feel like I just became numb to it."
In 2008, she went to a sexual health clinic for help but was just given condoms and sent away.
Ruby also says she tried to raise the ordeal with school and social services but nothing ever happened.

It was only in 2009 that she was placed on a child protection plan and the police were made aware
of the situation. But instead of protecting Ruby, officers from Greater Manchester Police took her
aborted baby from hospital without telling her. They then placed the foetus in a freezer at a police
station after DNA tests failed to match possible suspects in the grooming gang investigation.

The baby lay forgotten until a "routine property review” several years later, while the girl continued to
be abused. She was left to fend for herself while being threatened by gang members after bravely
coming forward to report her abuser. Ruby's story is just one of dozens revealed in a shocking report
into the scandal, which saw hundreds of vulnerable young girls exploited by Asian men in Rochdale.

One victim told officers she was kept in a cage and "made to bark like a dog or dress like a baby”
but GMP took no action once she left the region and was put in care elsewhere. If any cases did
reach court, young victims were left by officers to be "harassed and intimidated by the men who
had previously abused them" - sometimes at gunpoint, the report found.

Ruby herself was forced to come face-to-face with one of her attackers while in a local shop.
He had been released from jail halfway through his sentence but the victim was not informed.
Ruby said: "At first I double looked because I didn't really believe what I'd seen. Then, when it
hit me he's there, I ran. "Then I just went home and I didn't leave the house for like three months
after that."

The report was authored by Mr Newsam and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent,
following allegations by whistleblowers Sara Rowbotham and Maggie Oliver. The pair's battle to
bring abusers to justice and expose their horrific crimes was revealed in BBC TV documentary
The Betrayed Girls.

Mr Newsham and Mr Ridgeway found they were "lone voices" who had flagged the clear evidence
of "prolific serial rape of countless children in Rochdale". GMP has since apologised and said similar
cases are handled very differently now. But Ruby says more needs to be done to help victims of
sexual assault - including offering them psychological help after police interviews.

She added: "I want every child who goes through the doors of the police station and reports sexual
abuse to feel listened to and heard. "I feel that there's a lot of emotions going on. Instead of taking
it home with them and just having to figure it out on [their] own [they should be] put in a room with
a professional, so they can speak about the trauma."

Rochdale Borough Council said: "We are deeply sorry that the people who were at Rochdale Council
during the period 2004 to 2013, like many other areas of the country, did not recognise or acknowledge
what was happening and failed to take the necessary action to protect children from abuse...'

The Sun:

Well, at least the BBC got their documentary advertised.