Some quotes from the linked article:
"They always saw me as his equal,” she says. “I was never treated as a victim. I was [seen as] part of his gang, his mistress.” A few days after she turned 15, the police raided his house while they were in bed. “He was pulling up his trousers and looked petrified. I think he thought, ‘I’ve had it’,” she says. But it was Woodhouse they arrested – they found a baton-style weapon that he had given her, which she had hidden in her handbag.
It was as if they couldn’t see what was in front of them – or didn’t see anything wrong with it. It was strange, she says, because the police were always looking for a reason to get this well-known criminal. They would often pull him over and check his car, looking for drugs or weapons, but failed to see the underage girl in the passenger seat.
“People say they didn’t know what grooming was back then. But if a police officer didn’t know it’s wrong for a 14- and a 24-year-old to be involved, then they were in the wrong occupation. I think there were a few different reasons. I think because they were Pakistani Muslims, the police were scared to be called racist.” Could it also be simple misogyny? That Woodhouse, and the other girls like her, were just seen by the police as complicit in their abuse? “Yes,” she says. “We were ‘slags’ and ‘little criminals’. To this day, some people look at us like that.”
It is very upsetting reading. Do you remember with Jimmy Saville, people would say 'why didn't the girls say anything at the time?' And it turned out many had said something, but were ignored and shut down.