Grooming victim's mum speaks out at 'nightmare ordeal' in East Lancashire (From Lancashire Telegraph)
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Grooming victim's mum speaks out at 'nightmare ordeal' in East Lancashire
12:30am Wednesday 15th June 2011 in Keep Them Safe campaign
By David Watkinson, Deputy news editor
PARENTS’ FEAR The mum of a grooming victim addressed a police conference
A MUM whose 13-year-old daughter was plied with drugs and alcohol by a gang of Asian men who groomed her for sex has spoken of her ‘nightmare’ ordeal.
The woman, a mum-of-seven, who cannot be named for legal reasons, said she feared her daughter would be lured into drug addiction, prostitution and finally killed before the authorities intervened.
She said her daughter was targeted when she came to live with her in East Lancashire after the relationship with her father broke down.
“She was isolated. Her older siblings had friends but they were 18 and 19. She sort of latched onto them really.”
But soon the worried mum became concerned that her daughter was spending too much time with her so-called new “friends.”
“She was always texting the friends of her older brother, she was meeting with them and started staying out at night and if I tried to ground her she would go ballistic.
“I used to wait until she had gone out then call the police. When she came home she had no explanation of where she’d been or who she’d been with. She was a stranger to me.”
The abuse came to light when some graffiti of a sexual nature was found scrawled on the girl’s bedroom wall. It had been written by a man who had visited the house in the middle of the night.
It later emerged the girl had been receiving texts from several much older men who would take her out in their cars and give her alcohol. Everything came to a head when she was given cocaine and taken to a hotel.
She said: “I gave my permission for the police to intervene and seize her mobile phone. I didn’t know what was going on at the time.
“I felt helpless and angry. I tried to confront the perpetrators but they just laughed at me. They found it highly amusing.”
The girl and her family were helped by Operation Freedom, a multi-agency task force set up to protect girls and boys from child sexual exploitation.
Months on the girl has returned to school and is looking to the future.
“She is a totally different person now. I’m really proud of her. I would urge any parents who are worried about their children being exploited to talk to them. Just make sure. If you are wrong fantastic.”
She was speaking at a conference designed to tackle child sexual exploitation, organised by Lancashire police.
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Comments (26)
1:52am Wed 15 Jun 11
moggy669 says...
The only way to keep these vile excuses for human beings from taking advantage of young girls is to dish out some serious sentencing, i wont hold my breath...
Well done to the police and teams trying to stamp it out, its just a pity the judges dont share their enthusiasm.
2:24am Wed 15 Jun 11
Ronnietate says...
2:38am Wed 15 Jun 11
Community leader is not a legitimate term says...
This is indicative of the type of people the police and authorities are dealing with although years too late. Jack “spineless “Straw buried this problem for 15 years. 100’s, if not 1000’s of unnecessary extra victims have been created by Jack Straw and Labours’ Political correctness.
Political correctness has destroyed lives and European Human Rights legislation has **** on the remains. Lives have been destroyed, lives have been taken. It doesn’t end when the victims are rescued; they carry their nightmare with them.
8:04am Wed 15 Jun 11
burner says...
8:17am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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if the police know who they are then what is the problem and why are they still on the streets?
9:18am Wed 15 Jun 11
ibby128 says...
It's no good the government and co complaining about these bastards when the sentences their judges hand out are so pathetic. Hows that ever going to get rid of the problem.
Castration is the answer. It kills two birds with one stone.
Think about it, they would never be able to do anything like that again and it would be a very effective deterrent.
9:32am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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the gangster culture is the problem when it comes to drugs alchohol and group sex, and of course not forgetting the 60's generation who plied with LSD brought this behaviour into the mix. whether we like it or not we have a generation of damaged minds who see women as whores and themselves as m&m and 50p, aka low life wankers.
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in their abuse by society and the schools and indifferent parents, lots of children just ain't what they used to be, so if we are looking for blame look in the mirror as apathy is the major factor from those who claim a morality but only after eastenders and then only a fleeting thought....
9:35am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
9:40am Wed 15 Jun 11
past it says...
9:47am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
chaos with consent=fascist regime to bring order out of that chaos=new world order=hell.
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20 years ago dads would have kicked the living daylights out of these hyenas and it would go away, today the hyenas are protected by the free masonic police because they like it like that...
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lets get back to great britain and deal with these low life, if you get cheek smack it, if they do it again leather the little sods.... and the police...take the little sods home so their father can do the same.... don't arrest the dads...O I forgot the same state has removed the dads and so children only have mums...poor children no protectors and the state is waiting to remove the children as they blame mums for not being like rambo....
the UK state...what a load of crap
10:04am Wed 15 Jun 11
MerlinTheVoiceofReason2 says...
10:08am Wed 15 Jun 11
MerlinTheVoiceofReason2 says...
10:09am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
10:25am Wed 15 Jun 11
Community leader is not a legitimate term says...
What the telegraph didn't say was that it has only been in the past 5 years that they have taken this on board.
For 13-15 years they denied there was a problem along with the Politically Correct brigade. They refused to publish letters from the average working man that knew what was going on. They dismissed it as Right Wing propaganda.
(what-safe... I'm sure they take the Pee with passwords)
10:35am Wed 15 Jun 11
Community leader is not a legitimate term says...
11:08am Wed 15 Jun 11
jack daniels says...
11:12am Wed 15 Jun 11
jack daniels says...
11:13am Wed 15 Jun 11
ibby128 says...
I'm sure that with the right support and police protection, these girls can correctly identify the scum that exploited them.
11:15am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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its the result of our excitement in demolishing anything and everything that comes with the label religion, which is not surprising given we here in blighty have suffered the evangelical Christian ethos instead of the old school ethos...
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throwing the baby out with the bathwater is correct here.
11:19am Wed 15 Jun 11
jack daniels says...
I'm glad it's being picked up more by the national press and it's good that the LT is contributing to the awareness of these type of crime. Lets hope it makes a difference.
11:27am Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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like I have said before we need to remove the statute based UK and get back to an improved great britain with a new constitution t sit on the throne.
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and end to speculative masonic systems also known as pyramid schemes in order fair play is the backdrop instead of corporate monopoly.
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in our lack of wisdom and the following of gnosticism as our main thrust, we have lost morality which cancels out any and all fight within to stand for what is right, and o course all the cannabis usage which makes everything cool man...
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kill the hippy keep the heightened awareness=fight for right=win win sanity....
12:09pm Wed 15 Jun 11
jack daniels says...
Where does the bit about religion come from????
12:42pm Wed 15 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
1:07pm Wed 15 Jun 11
George Khan says...
12:00pm Thu 16 Jun 11
Lifeinthemix says...
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if we as society remove the elites wish to see black and white, literal...and position the battle as it is, gangland culture being sponsored from the top, then we can and will remove this mindset by throwing those who wish to exist as such, do so in jail.
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that means we need to support artists who are sane as opposed to those presented by the same elites. that means a ban in the home on all forms of sickness aka hip hop.
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its all about were we as a people spend the money....
12:04pm Thu 16 Jun 11
Troy McCLur says...