Charlotte Tetley, victim of the Rochdale rape gangs has died

This is so true in my experience. One of my family members finally got NHS counselling. He was discharged without any human contact because he hadn't come to an appointment BECAUSE HE WAS MENTALLY ILL. No real attempt at contact or finding out why he hadn't come or - goodness here's an idea - actually checking he was ok. None at all. The whole experience made his mental health issue worse. He's fine now, but in spite of the state not because of it.

I remember at the time it was a huge achievement that he'd gone to the GP in the first place so for this to be the outcome was a real kick in the teeth.

Obviously if you're a paedophile child rapist immigrant who needs a taxpayer funded solicitor to prevent you being deported after your insulting 'sentence' for your crimes is served then the red carpet is rolled out.

Edited to add - my family member is a law abiding lovely, fairly quiet and shy white male. He has come in recent years to question why he got so little support at this time (and in other areas other members of our family get so little support now) when the grooming gang rapists have got so much state money given to them to help them stay in the country. I've got to say, this does not seem an unreasonable question at all. And in the context of the victims of grooming gangs getting fuck all mental health or other support, even more stark.

The video of 'Jade' the grooming gang survivor and Maggie Oliver on Triggernometry is really upsetting but an important watch. MO and Jade are clear that the only mental health support she's had is via the MO foundation. None via the state. Despite what they put her through. Maggie Oliver & Jade - TRIGGERnometry

It is impossible to get mental health support unless you jump through hoops in just the right way.

This means if you don't present in the correct fashion they won't deal with you. The jobsworthiness of the whole system is appalling.

It does not remotely surprise me that some of the most vulnerable individuals fall through the cracks as a result because, frankly they are so mentally unwell. It's a lanyard class bullshit issue, where those who designed and run the system haven't the faintest idea about the complexity of the needs of patients.

It's one of those where you are supposed to fit the system and yet these are people who need the system to fit them.

It is not fit for practice.

And by the time you have already lost trust in 'the system' you are already lost. It doesn't deem people in this situation worthy of helping imho.

The police are absolutely shocking in terms of dealing with mental health related issues which only compounds the problem as they end up dealing with issues due to the absence of mental health provision. And they only serve to make matters worse for many whom they deal with as a result of their poor training and understanding.

And obviously here I’m talking about the gangs as a phenomenon in multiple cities and towns.

I think the “fear of being perceived as racist” was more a genuine factor in why the local authority/social services let these girls down. See the Jay and Casey reports (Casey reviewed what lessons had been learned at Rotherham council, I won’t post a spoiler and I’ll leave it to your imagination). I think individual police officers were sometimes implicated, sometimes just didn’t give a fuck and the racism excuse offered them plausible deniability for turning a blind eye because it was easier. That excuse applies to all the multi agency groups though.

Absolutely heartbreaking. Poor Charlotte, let down by everyone who should have helped and protected her.

How very sad. Hope she is at peace now. Disgraceful how she was let down.

Absolutely tragic. These women and girls have been let down time and time again. The police officers who added to her trauma instead of protecting her are absolute scum.

It's so heartbreaking. The abusers should move and stuff any impact on their wider family or community. THEY caused that impact. The victims should get to stay in their community.

I do not understand why this isn't the case? I really want people to lose their jobs over the failure to prioritise Charlotte. They deserve to.

I am so sorry, poor Charlotte.

Many people in authority have blood on their hands.
Each and everyone of them must be put in front of the courts to face justice 😡

I had to stand up and kick something when I read your post. Charlotte wasn’t a “lost cause” — she loved her child, she wanted to live, and she kept reaching out for help. And at every stage she was betrayed. For some reason I had a vision of The Prince of Verona from Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet bellowing— “All are punished” . I wish everyone involved who played a part are serves justice and held to account, but I won’t hold my breath.

RIP Charlotte. I'd like to think think poor Charlotte's death may hold a spotlight up to all the victims of rape gangs and result in better care for and recognition of all survivors. I won't hold my breath though. Very sad

I’m simultaneously incredibly sad and absolutely furious. She was SO badly let down over and over and over again.

RIP Charlotte. You deserved so much more.

God, how very sad. Poor woman.

Bless you, Charlotte. I’m so sorry we failed you.

Charlotte Tetley — failed and failed again.

So what I understand is that she in July 2023 she was forced to move out of Rochdale to Macclesfield because her abuser returned to the area.

Why on earth was she uprooted and destabilised, rather than the man who destroyed her life being restricted or moved? Never mind, I know why...

Charlotte had a long history of suicide attempts and trauma. Despite that, she was discharged from A&E and told she didn’t need an inpatient bed — even though she had said she was thinking of jumping in front of a train. She was even removed from the inpatient bed list before a mental health professional reviewed her that same day.

She was repeatedly classed as high-risk, yet the police decided not to send anyone. The ambulance service also refused to deploy because “her location wasn’t known” — even though she was known to be suicidal and vulnerable.

It’s a catalogue of failures, stacked on top of everything she had already endured as a child in the Rochdale grooming scandal. She bore the lifelong consequences of what was done to her, compounded by a system that continued to let her down over and over.

May she finally have the peace she never had in life.

RIP Charlotte, Let down badly by systems that should have been protecting you, hope she’s in peace now

I'm so sorry Charlotte, you were let down and left to it.

These women have been abandoned and let down for so many years. What an awful indictment of our society.

RIP Charlotte. Totally and utterly failed by those meant to protect you and the other children.

The mental health care of women and girls who have experienced sexual abuse as children, is so poor that it being none existent would be an improvement.

Good grief - so many warnings there - poor poor poor woman