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Girl, 12, repeatedly raped hours after police ignored her pleas and kicked her out of station is 'not a unique case'

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The horrific case of a 12-year-old girl who was raped by strangers and let down by authorities in Oldham is ‘not unique’, says the ex-detective who has repeatedly blown the whistle on child abuse failings.

Maggie Oliver, a former detective constable with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), resigned from her job claiming that the force had failed the victims of the Rochdale sex grooming scandal.

She has since been instrumental in Mayor Andy Burnham’s decision to launch a wide-reaching assurance review looking into failures in how police and social services protected vulnerable girls.

The first part of that review, published in 2020, focused on the abandoned ‘Augusta’ police operation which was investigating abuse by mainly Pakistani men in the Rusholme area of Manchester.

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