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Teenaged victim of a grooming gang was arrested 5 times

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BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 21/05/2019 08:55

The abuse began when she was 11

She spent five years being repeatedly raped and says police turned a blind eye despite knowledge of what was happening. When her rapists plied her with drugs to make it easier for them to assault her police arrested her and issued a warning for possession.

Sad I'm sat at my desk feeling like I could cry for Cassie and her lost childhood

The fact that she was a girl stopped the police seeing that she was a child didn't it? misogyny wins over compassion, every, every fucking time

This is what happens to children who don't have parents to advocate for them. Why is the state failing children so comprehensively?

metro.co.uk/2019/05/19/police-arrested-grooming-victim-who-was-raped-by-100-men-9600860/

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Genderfreelass · 21/05/2019 10:13

The police care more about protecting the male perpetrators reputations than vulnerable young girls 😕

littlbrowndog · 21/05/2019 09:32

Yes Bernard exactly

It reminds me a bit off the woman who was murdered by the ex boyfriend and the police actually fined her 80 quid for I think it was wasting police time

What is wrong with the police. Surely they know what is happening
Or is some girls life’s not important and they deserve it

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BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 21/05/2019 09:32

god I feel like emptying my savings account and putting the whole fucking lot into Harry's campaign (I'm not going to do that).

How can we get the police to show some responsibility? how can we hold them to account for their institutionalised misogyny?

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LangCleg · 21/05/2019 09:25

I'll bet it's much easier to go and hassle a home counties SAHM about being mean on twitter than protect a child from being raped, when they probably won't even thank you for it.

This.

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BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 21/05/2019 09:23

West Yorkshire police told me only 3 weeks ago that a 14 year old drinking with 5 men and then getting in the back of a van with the, was her ‘lifestyle choice’. She is in a group home

That was a child, being abused. No child can consent to sex. No child should be drinking. It's not a lifestyle choice they can make.

My Mum was a social worker, and she said to me a couple of times 'abused children are often hard to like at first, you have to ignore that and do your job'.

I'll bet these children are a fucking nightmare to deal with. I'll bet they're angry and abusive because of what they've been through, suffering from stockholm syndrome, so partially siding with their abusers.

I'll bet it's much easier to go and hassle a home counties SAHM about being mean on twitter than protect a child from being raped, when they probably won't even thank you for it.

lazy, lazy dereliction of duty on the part of the police

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LangCleg · 21/05/2019 09:19

The police are still doing this across Rochdale, Calderdale and Kirklees. West Yorkshire police told me only 3 weeks ago that a 14 year old drinking with 5 men and then getting in the back of a van with the, was her ‘lifestyle choice’. She is in a group home. The men know they can do as they please.

This makes me so fucking furious there aren't enough swear words to communicate it.

Mrsjayy · 21/05/2019 09:18

bigbadbadger your post brought a lump to my throat a fucking lifestyle choice jesus wept that poor girl what chance has she got. And poor Cassie it is horrific.

LangCleg · 21/05/2019 09:17

The attention given to non crimes just seems even more egregious when you read this doesn’t it

Yes, it does.

She's not the only victim of street grooming to have been arrested for facilitating either. At least one has even been prosecuted.

bigbadbadger · 21/05/2019 09:13

I knew it would be WEST YORKSHIRE POLICE. I knew it would be Calderdale.

The police are still doing this across Rochdale, Calderdale and Kirklees. West Yorkshire police told me only 3 weeks ago that a 14 year old drinking with 5 men and then getting in the back of a van with the, was her ‘lifestyle choice’. She is in a group home. The men know they can do as they please.

West Yorkshire police hate women, it is simple. Savile, Yorkshire ripper, grooming gangs, Karen white, the endless list of misogyny and sexual offences against vulnerable women who are dismissed as prostitutes.

In Leeds you can legally buy a woman for sex in the morning, get your self ID changed on line and ‘be a woman’ entering women’s private spaces in the afternoon.

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BernardBlacksWineIcelolly · 21/05/2019 09:09

The attention given to non crimes just seems even more egregious when you read this doesn’t it

I’m so fucking angry I can barely sit still. I am going to make another donation to Harry the Owl’s campaign. The police need to sort their fucking act out

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BluebonicPlague · 21/05/2019 09:07

Maybe because this sort of thing has been going on for generations and the assumption that some girls are 'no good' is ingrained in police culture? And class maybe has a role to play too. Would a working class or traveller or immigrant mother advocating for her daughter in these circumstances even be listened to?

What a sickening story. Maybe our newly woke police can turn their attention to seeing what's really happening in these cases.