Another Rochdale?

[I'm With Stupid]

I've got a lot of family in Barrow and there's a girl has just gone public about the abuse she's received at the hands of a gang of men who have been bringing her round the North West and elsewhere to have forced sex with men. She's 19 now, and has come out publicly, but I think she says it's been going on for a while. The girl herself has been arrested for perverting the course of justice and breaching bail conditions (though it'd unclear whether this is linked to her publicizing her case, or why she was on bail in the first place), but there are allegations that there's another cover up.

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Interestingly, there were allegations from one girl of something similar in 2016 but seemingly nothing was done about it. This girl also alleges that she was shrugged off by police when she tried to report it.



Cumbria police are seemingly denying that it's anything other than an isolated crime.



Those tweets btw are from Maggie Oliver, a former GMP detective and consultant for the drama Three Girls about the Rochdale sex abuse ring.

Sorry it's the Daily Mail.

The girl has gone public herself and her original post is still on Facebook if you want to read her statement.

Hopefully it isn't another Rochdale, but let's be honest, Barrow is exactly the sort of deprived area that these gangs target.

 

[PannickAtTheDisco]

nothing to see here...

 

[Southern]

99% of these ‘Asian’ groomers are of Pakistani or Bangladeshi extraction.

 

[Aphex]

Well they’ve broke the 2 metre rule already.

 

[I'm With Stupid]

Not great to bring this thread back up, but just to catch everyone up...

A girl alleged that she was being groomed by an Asian gang in Barrow. Facebook groups were started, protests emerged outside the police station and local newspaper who'd been accused of covering it up. But they knew something everyone else didn't, and they weren't able to reveal it. It turned out she was lying and went to prison for perverting the course of justice. I watched the documentary about it. She went to insane lengths to make it look like she'd been the victim of sexual assault, including injuring herself with a hammer.

Except that it turns out she was telling the truth all along. Not about every aspect, but it turns out that one of the men she accused had been grooming kids for 14 years, including her. He was convicted last month and she's finally been able to speak out on Channel 4 News.

Seems like another huge failure of the CPS, social services, the police, whoever you want to blame. One of the most surprising aspects of it is that it was the police who originally contacted her parents to say she was being groomed, not them contacting the police.

 

[M23 Citizen]

Even Tommy Robinson went up and did a documentary in support of the Asian bloke she’d accused after it had originally been deemed that she’d supposedly ‘lied’.

Poor girl(s).