Authorities failed to act over 40 years β despite repeated warnings to social workers. The rape hell of vulnerable young girls in one town β Telford β went on for a shocking 40 years, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
As many as 1, children could have suffered at the merciless hands of perverts and torturers in Telford since the s. Girls as young as 11 have been lured from their families to be drugged, beaten and raped in an epidemic that, say victims, is still ongoing.
Not only whites, young Hindu and Sikh girls in the UK have also been on the radar of these grooming gangs, with the community leaders having backed a British MP for calling out the issue earlier. We found:. The scale of the abuse uncovered in Telford β population , β is feared to be the most brutal and long-running of all. They need to know how abuse took place for so long and why so many perpetrators have never been brought to justice.
They accused more than 70 abusers and claimed that violent rapes were still taking place just months ago. Hours after my second termination, I was taken by one of my abusers to be raped by more men.
Documents which will be passed to the Home Office reveals authorities knew of the horrors a decade before investigating β and shows how they tried to hamper our probe. We have an unfortunate capacity to choose to forget. She said the true scale of the Telford problem might never be known because many victims were unlikely to come forward. Cops also said there could be as many as perpetrators β but just nine were caged and the case was then closed.
