Wasn’t Oliver the one who exposed what was going on in Rotherham?
That had always been my understanding, however I am now wondering whether I should review my opinion
I had always held Maggie Oliver in high esteem, not least of all because I have experience of grooming gangs myself. I have reported various grooming gangs to the police over the years, some bearing many similarities to the ones Oliver exposed and some extremely different.
Does it sometime happen that the police do not take reports of grooming gangs and sexual exploitation seriously? In my experience this can and does happen. This happened when, in the 1980s I reported being trafficked and tortured and the detective I spoke to NFAd my complaint. It has happened to me much more recently also.
One of the serious concerns I have about Pizzagate, Qanon etc. is that they make many people, including the police, much less likely to take reports of real cultic abuses, including sexual abuses against children, seriously.
I worked with girls exploited by pimps and grooming gangs decades ago and the girls (minors) were treated as criminals rather than as abused children. I have met several extremely corrupt senior police officers.
I have also met many good cops. I keep an open mind about what might be happening in all kinds of situations.
Oliver is the author of this book
Survivors: One Brave Detective's Battle to Expose the Rochdale Child Abuse Scandal Paperback – 11 July 2019
www.amazon.co.uk/Survivors-Detectives-Battle-Rochdale-Scandal/dp/1789460859/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=maggie+oliver&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1599107939&sr=8-1
She went on to become a media celebrity “shero” and appeared on the TV show Celebrity Big Brother and even did a stint in pantomime.
This article may interest you. I do not know the author, Richard Bartholomew, personally, but he is someone whose blog I keep up to date with as, like me, he is interested in skeptical perspectives on conspiracy theories generally and satanic ritual abuse CTs specifically.
Police Whistleblowers’ Group Raises Concerns about Jon Wedger and Maggie Oliver
barthsnotes.com/2019/01/02/police-whistleblowers-group-raises-concerns-about-jon-wedger-and-maggie-oliver/
The IPSG page listing concerns about Wedger and Oliver is here
www.ipsg.co.uk/the-whistleblowing-bandwagon
If you have concerns about Maggie Oliver and her recent conspiraloon associates it might be worth contacting the Independent Police Support Group (a group of apparently genuine police whistleblowers). I know from watching Jon Wedger’s videos that he is feeling stressed out by being researched by them and has recently issues threats against them.
Maggie Oliver’s recent associates include Shaun Attwood
You can see Oliver with Attwood here
Attwood is a former ecstasy “kingpin” who appears alongside such luminaries as Sonia Poulton, and David Icke, promotes Qanon, Pizzagate etc, and has recently been involved in raising funds to help an apparently trafficked drug addicted, vulnerable, autistic woman to “get off the game”.
This last issue has caused quite a scandal in the last few days as photographs of this women in lingerie, taken at Attwood’s flat, have appeared advertising her services on escort / sex work websites.
A video of the woman dressed as and play acting as a child, calling a man who appears to be Attwood and calling him “Daddy” whilst unzipping his trousers has also been uploaded. Attwood’s face is not in the video and the groaning sounds (which are definitely him) could have been edited on, however the beige sofa in the clip is the same as the sofa in fundraising videos showing Attwood and the woman together. The clip is extremely disturbing and I am very concernd that this vulnerable woman is being expoilted by Attwood in various ways.
I’m definitely not denying the existence of grooming gangs and it may be that Maggie Oliver has done some wonderful, courageous work in the past, however her current associates are extremely dubious and unsavoury and many are criminal.
I cannot pretend to understand what is going on.