"Countless children known to be at significant risk of harm were left unprotected and their abusers left to continue to exploit children with impunity." A shameful paragraph from a damning new report which has found there was widespread child sexual exploitation and abuse over years in Rochdale but - despite being presented with a glut of evidence - both the police and the council failed to act and left children 'at the mercy' of paedophiles.
The report - authored by Malcolm Newsam, a renowned child care expert, and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent - lays bare in painful reading the vast extent of the abuse endured by children at the hands of older men.
And crucially, it also reveals their harrowing stories; testimonies that were 'ignored' by all but a small team of NHS health workers who battled to get those in power to listen to them, and listen to the girls. Try MEN Premium now for FREE...
just click here to give it a go. Mr Newsam said a huge quantity of records and detailed case files of 59 children were researched for the review.
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