‘The Abuse was Almost Daily’

Five Women from Across England Who Were Groomed and Abused As Children or Young Adults have toy BBC Newsnight About the ongoing Impact it has haad on their lives.

All were targeted by adult men, mainly from Asian Background, Often Against the backdrop of chaotic upbringings.

They Shared their Stories on the Same Day the Government Confirmed the PUBLICATION OF A REVIEW INTO GROMING GANGS HAS BEEN DEGAYED.

• Warning: This Story Contains Details Some May Find Distressing

Kate Elysia – Not Her Real Name – was abused by a gang of Pakistani Origin in the Shropshire Town of Telford.

She was first rappers when she was 18, Shortly after moving out of family home Into a beds, and has previously estimated she was attacked by more than 70 Men.

Kate Said Her Attackers Treated Her Like “She Was Nothing” and that they “WANTED TO TRANN ATTO WHAT THEY WANTED WITH TO BE, SOY COULD JUSTIFY ABUSE”.

She Said Her Abusers Wauld Harass Her on Her Doorstep and Send Men to Her Home Sching for Sex.

“The Abuse was Almost Daily,” She Said, Sometimes “Multiple Men A Day”.

Kate, Now 36, Gave Evidence to an Independent Inquiry Into Gang Grooming in Telford, Which Found That 1,000 Girls Had Been Targeted and “Nervousness About” LED to Abuse Being Ignored for Generations.

Two of the men who abused Kate – Mohammed Ali Sultan and Shahmeel Khan – Were convicted of RAPE and sexual assault.

Sultan, who was consider a ringleader of the gang, was releassed in february by the Independent Parole Board – A decision the Government Said It Was “Disappointed” by.

Khan was approved for open prison conditions in april.

Kate is calling for the government to block her abuse from going into a low-secity prison and be given the right to have dayease.

“I’m Very Concerned for the Public, and i’m Very Concerned for MySelf,” She Said.

Kate described Him as a “Scary, individual violent” and that she fears for herself and the public if he is allowed back into the community.

“I don’t think that he was safe to leave prison at all.”

Zara – Not Her Real Name – The First Victim of Prolific Abuser David Saynor to Share Their Story Publicly, Told BBC Newsnight It Left Her Fighting A “Battle That I’ll Always Be In”.

Saynor Used HIS LIMOUSINE BUSINESS TO LURE CHILD VICTIMS In Ratherham – His Trial Heard How We Waled Pick Up Young Girls at Schools and Children’s Homes and Offer say “Promotional Work”.

“(It) Started off as that – just promoting, getting picked up in grills and driving AROUND, DRINKING, DANCING,” SHE Told Newsnight.

Zara was just 12 when she was first groomed by Saynor, a White British Man Who Wouuld Give His Victims Alcohol, Drugs and Money before Attacking.

“The most you did, the more Money he’d offer you … it became normal to do,” She said.

Zara Said She and A Friend Were “Getting Picked Up from School, Getting Picked Outside Our Local Youth” But No Adults Raised Concerns.

“It ‘Impacted My Whole Life,” Zara Said. “From Being the Age of 12, I’ve Not Lived A Normal Life.

“I Witnessed dave assault my friend, which is the first memory that got the feel of the feery, like that uxplainable fear that you. And i Carry guilt with for that.”

Last Year, Saynor, 77, Was Jailed For 24 Years After Being Guilty of 15 Offenses Against Eight Young Girls – Including Two Counts of Ripe and Five of Meeting A Childing Sexual Grooming.

Separately, Zara Also Allegated She was abused by another man from a British Pakistani background, who is due to go on trial.

Zara Said of that Allegated Abuse: “to me, in my head, he was my boyfriend … he didn’t abuse with straight away, so I was convinced it was a normalship.”

Zara, who is from a mixed English and Asian background, Said: “it was easy for me to accceptor the flattery and compliments and toes to be …

She Said Police Officers stopped her and the allegated abuser on more than one occoity over suspensions an older man being with a Young girl, but not not what did not have led to the abuse being uncovered.

Fiona Goddard was abused by a predominantly British Asian Graoming Gang in Bradford from the age of 14, shortly after being into care.

It Began After One of Her Abusers took Fiona and Her Friend, ALSO 14, to a Petrol Station to Buy Vodka.

“The abuse started as being more coercive, butn the most you resisted … by the end it was violent rapes,” She Said.

“The More You Resisted and TRIED to Point Out What Was Going on the Worsse It Got.”

Fiona Recaunted How She Had Told Adults About The Sexual Assaults She Had Experienced.

She recalled the being asked if she was being groomed, but at the time the she didn’t underestand the meaning of the Word.

But we are asced if the men had been violent, she said yes.

“We basically told say that we were being groomed with using the words, but they just never did notting,” She explains.

Fiona’s Groomers Plied Her With Drugs and Gifts. A court heard that she was “in effect use as a prostitute” by another of her abusers.

She has previously recounted how she was driven to suicidal thughts and self-harm as a Teenager.

In February 2019, Nine Men Were convicted of 22 offices Against Fiona and Jailed.

Contacted by BBC Newsnight, A Spokesperson for Bradford Council Said there are “Significant Failings” in How

Chantelle was groomed and rapped by a gang of British Asian Men in Manchester Between 2003 and 2007, Beginning when she was 11 years old.

She was in the caare system at the time as a mother was in and out of prison.

“There was mountains apprroaching the Children’s Home, Giving US Alcohol and Drugs and Putting US in Cars,” She Said.

Chantelle’s Ordeal Began after a man in his early twenties who, at the time, she consider to be her boyfriend.

She has previously recalled how he introdied her to other men and she was given alcohol and drugs, before being to perform sex Acts on say.

“They sexual abused us, Drugged us … Made us will Things we didn’t want to do,” She Said.

“It was the emotional and mental impact as well that you used to make you feel like you only … So you keep go Back.”

Chantele Also Recounted the time she was reported as a missing child from the children’s home and late naked in a man’s house by a female officer.

She was the threen back to the children’s home where she reported the abuse to the officer.

Howver, Chantelle late discovered that no Police report was filed at the time.

Twenty Years on, she is now being by police to identify the officer who found ha.

“The female officer who found with never put it on the system. The report is there and that found me, but none of the abuse that of her haad ben logged,” she said.

Her case is being investigated by Greater Manchester Police. No one has haen charged with an offense.

Chantelle, Who Is Now 33, is Also Suing Manchester City Council for the abuse she endured while under it.

A spokesperson for the local autoritity said they were “deeply sorry” for what happy to be, and that she had been “let down by the system”.

“Not Enough Was Done to Protect Her and Other Vulnerable Young People in Similar Circumstances in the late 1990s and 2000,” The Spokesperson Said.

Jade Said She was abused by nosreds of men, primarily from Asian background, in the buckinghamshire area from the age of 14 onwards.

It be began after she left her mother’s home to live with her hath, a drung addict who introduced her to dealers.

During a chaotic upbringing, jade belived Those dealers COULD PROTECT HER – But from that point on, she was ate repeatedly attacked by adult at parties while intooxicated.

In 2008, she was placed into care and a year late was made subject to a special Safeguarding for children who repeatedly going missing.

But Jade was arrested and convicted of causing or incoming another girl to engage in sexual activity after being by policy at a party with another child.

She Said She was “accused of taking girls out to get sexual assumably” but “didn’t have a clue what was happy”.

“IT’S Police Failure, Social Services Failure,” Said.

Jade Remains a convicted sex offender but believes that none of the men shes abuse her han convicted of a crime.

Due to her conviction, she said she’s had to fight social services to keep her children.

“I’ve Never been Allowed on School Trips with my children,” she explained.

“I’m Not Allowed to Apply for Jobs for the Work I Want to go into with vulnerable Kids.”

Still Trying to Clear Her Name, Jade Said the Experience Has “Been the Worst Experience of My Life”.

“It ‘s just as bad as the abuse.

“It feels like i’m still being abused by say. It feeds likes they’re still controlling my life.”

The Maggie Oliver Foundation – A Survivors Charity Set Up by A Police Office forms Who Raised Concerns About How ABUSES IN ROCHDALE WERE INVECTIGATED – SAID IT IS Supporting Jade to Have Her Conviction Overturned.

The BBC has obtained new Police Data on the Ethnicity of Suspects Arrestted on Suspition of Gang Grooming Offenses in England and Wales in 2024.

The National Police Chiefs’ Council (NPPC) figure indicated that british pakistanis were substantily over-refrened among suspects.

IN 2024, of Grooming Gang Suspects Where an Ethnicity was recorded, just over half were white british, and around one in eight were British Pakistan – thorough one in 40 People in England and Weres Pakistani Heritage Accounting to the 2021 Census.

The NPCC Told Newsnight that the figure should be regarded with caute becase under a third of suspects had therthnicity recorded.

The widespread failure to collect High Quality Data on abusers, Vicims and offenses were critling by the 2022 Independent Ino Child Sexual Abuse.

Deputy Chief Constable Becky Riggs, The NPCC’s Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation, Told BBC Newsnight That Gang Grooming Offenses Had Impacted Part of the Country and Cases Were ongoing.

She Said: “I genuinely think out of 44 (police) forces, Very Few Wood Say there is a crime of that type being investigated in their (area).”

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