Seven men used two teenage girls as ‘sex slaves’ in Rochdale

https://news.sky.com/story/seven-men-used-two-teenage-girls-as-sex-slaves-in-rochdale-13382222

by Ramy__B

37 comments

  1. i’m impressed they had the courage to show their faces, good job sky

  2. According to the victims, it was up to 200 men – 7 have been convicted

    The girls were 13 when it started

    4 of the men convicted, have other convictions for the same offences.

    BBC article below which has a bit more detail than the Sky one.

    [https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o)

    edit – edited ‘previous’ to ‘other’ as the convictions/incidents seem to overlap

  3. Sadly, this is the future we are building for our children and grandchildren.

  5. >He added: “The men abused, degraded and then discarded the victims when they were just children. This horrific abuse knew no limits, despite their denials throughout this lengthy investigation and court case.

    >”They had a callous disregard for these women when they were girls, and continue to show no remorse for their unforgivable actions all these years later.”

    Luckily people like this usually get the “special” treatment the moment they arrive in jail and other inmates know what they did.

  7. May they suffer unspeakable things I can’t say loud.

  8. This is no surprise. Too bad we can’t mention the obvious in here.

  9. Is my understanding correct that they all belong to same cultural ethnicity / background?
    Then that probably explains how these criminals manage to form a ‘ring’ of abuse.

  10. Notice anything about them other than that they look like they have been using drugs

  13. Why would grown up men have any sexual desires to a 13 year old minor?
    This is too much 😔

  14. Always the Same people when you hear storys like this

  16. Some of the activists who uncovered these things referred to these groups not as “gangs”, but “families”.

    They’re all members of an extended family or social clan, regularly meet each other during family events.

  21. Girl B, who was living in a children’s home when she came into contact with the men on the market, said **police and social workers knew what was going on but “weren’t concerned enough to do anything about it”**.

    “**It was in my file, when I looked it up**. I read it,” the woman, now aged in her 30s, told the court.

    “I was **picked up by the police for LOITERING AND PROSTITUTING from the AGE OF 10.”**

    I don’t even know what to say…I mean where does it leave us, when the official authorities don’t seem to care about something this horrendous. It’s a really sad world we’re living in.

  27. Disgusting. I hope each and everyone who’s guilty will be convicted and locked up for life so they can’t ever do something like this again to anyone.

  28. I am astonished that things like the Telford sex scandale is still something that taught no lessons.

  29. > , believed to have been committed between 2001 and 2006, over 72 days

    So fast…

  30. >Jurors deliberated for **three weeks** before delivering their unanimous guilty verdicts.

    Umm, what’s there to talk about for three weeks in this case?

  31. Can we make Automatic Emasculation a thing for stuff like this please? Thx

  32. When will men stop this senseless violence against women and children? Absolutely disgusting. These girls were failed by every single adult around them.

  34. At some point in the last years it dawned on me that when I was a kid, our neighbour was keeping her orphaned 9-10 year old niece as a maid. It also dawned on me that every adult in the neighbourhood was aware of this and never said anything about it.

    I ran into the girl’s cousin outside a bar before the pandemic, and I bluntly asked him about her. He pretended he couldn’t remember who I was talking about (she was his actual cousin, their parents were siblings), then after a while of me staring at him, he said “oh yeah I don’t know what happened to her”.

    To tell you this haunts would be an understatement. I don’t remember her first name so I can’t look for her, and I just know the girl was being trafficked.

    Moral of the story: willful blindness is a rampant disease.

  35. >Girl B, who was living in a children’s home when she came into contact with the men on the market, said police and social workers knew what was going on but “weren’t concerned enough to do anything about it”.

    >”It was in my file, when I looked it up. I read it,” the woman, now aged in her 30s, told the court.

    >”I was picked up by the police for loitering and prostituting from the age of 10.”

    [From the BBC article about this](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cdd2rld9mj2o.amp). In other words the police did not want to help the victims. This seems to be a pattern with the police there. This is less about who the perpetrators were and more who the police refuses to help, and that frequently ends up being vulnerable women stuck in bad situations they can’t get out of without outside help. Something the police and especially social workers *should* be giving, but refuses to. [This link](https://www.victimsupport.org.uk/new-research-shows-police-failing-to-act-on-domestic-abuse-reports-ethnic-minority-victims-worst-affected/) someone else posted shows it’s a pattern.

  36. It doesn’t get more disgusting than this.

    Remember the actual trivial shit that politicians have been talking about, and they never have the guts to talk about this. It’s deliberate. They’re all complicit.

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