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Sexual exploitation of young girls in Huddersfield - again?

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Bowlofbabelfish · 15/08/2018 10:24

Just seen this story. Is this one of the three linked trials that are ongoing or is it an entirely new investigation that’s now coming to court?

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062349/Thirty-men-woman-charged-sexual-exploitation-girls-young-12.html

I suspect we will see the usual rhetoric about working class girls being worth nothing in the eyes of the law.

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TheAlchemist101 · 15/08/2018 15:07

Sadly one raising safeguarding issues is a lot of box ticking and little action with agencies reluctant to act against adults despite overwhelming evidence

ASliceOfArcticRoll · 15/08/2018 15:01

That's not the half of it.

TheQueef · 15/08/2018 14:49

30 rapers is a lot for a small town like Huddersfield.

Poor lasses.

daughterofanarchy · 15/08/2018 14:45

There is a problem with grooming and it is rife in certain ethnic communities. I have witnessed it first hand as it happened to a friend of mine when we were teenagers. She was groomed by a group of men, and passed around their social circle. It ruined her. The care system failed her. To this day she cannot have a relationship with a decent man because her experiences have left her with such low self esteem, that she still thinks being beaten and assaulted are something she deserves.

StylishMummy · 15/08/2018 12:45

3 girls was an awful watch but portrayed those in the situation brilliantly. Absolutely terrifying

trickyboots · 15/08/2018 12:43

Im hearing this is increasingly big business for organised crime. I'm told that children frequently want to go back to the gangs even if removed from the area. It's what they know, who they know, back to the drink and drugs. I often think in just a couple of years time, they will mature further and they will look back and realise they were ritually abused. If lucky enough to escape/ start again, a lifetime of healing will then need to commence. It is heartbreaking.

ASliceOfArcticRoll · 15/08/2018 12:33

Hear hear heresy.

heresyandwitchcraft · 15/08/2018 12:31

A very good friend of mine used to work in children’s homes and has spent thousands of soul destroying hours retrieving children from houses and situations like this, our in the middle of the night to pick up kids who have been dumped places, and battling authorities who insist the girls are there of their own free will - 13 year olds. It’s sickening. Utterly sickening.

I shake my head in horror and despair, and hold the victims in my heart.

YouCalled · 15/08/2018 12:27

BBC link

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Bowlofbabelfish · 15/08/2018 12:05

A very good friend of mine used to work in children’s homes and has spent thousands of soul destroying hours retrieving children from houses and situations like this, our in the middle of the night to pick up kids who have been dumped places, and battling authorities who insist the girls are there of their own free will - 13 year olds. It’s sickening. Utterly sickening.

And I think it’s been going on a long time - men used to cruise past our local chippy and pick girls up at lunch times in their school uniform. This was early 90s.

So widespread. Just horrifying.

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womanformallyknownaswoman · 15/08/2018 11:31

working class girls being worth nothing in the eyes of the law.

and are blamed for putting themselves in harm's way

theOtherPamAyres · 15/08/2018 10:54

I believe that this is the "fall-out" from the original trial.

The original accuseds prostituted the young women. They were taken to houses and kept there, often drugged. The men who raped them now face trials. I'm guessing that the women who have been charged knew what was going on and acted as "jailers" or turned a blind eye..

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Bowlofbabelfish · 15/08/2018 10:24

Sorry clicky link:

www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6062349/Thirty-men-woman-charged-sexual-exploitation-girls-young-12.html

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