BREAKING: More than a thousand children were sexually exploited over at least 30 years in Telford amid ‘shocking’ police and council failings, an inquiry has concluded.
Findings published today sharply criticised the police and council for failing to stop the abuse
The report said that child sexual exploitation ‘thrived’ in the large Shropshire town for decades and went ‘unchecked’ because of failures to investigate offenders and protect children. ‘Countless children were sexually assaulted and raped. They were deliberately humiliated and degraded. They were shared and trafficked. They were subjected to violence and their families were threatened.He said agencies, including the council and West Mercia Police , were ‘aware of it in detail’, adding: ‘Failure by agencies to investigate emboldened offenders; failure to safeguard put children at risk.
He said an absence of police action had emboldened offenders, and added: ‘It is impossible not to wonder how different the lives of those early 2000s victims of child sexual exploitation – and indeed many others unknown to this inquiry – may have been had WMP done its most basic job and acted upon these reports of crime.
In 2018, a Sunday Mirror investigation concluded that around 1,000 children could have been sexually exploited in the Shropshire town over a 40-year period, leading to calls for a public inquiry which was commissioned later that year by Telford and Wrekin Council.
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