Women groomed, raped and abused by gangs in Rochdale receive police damages
Their trial heard how young girls were plied with alcohol and drugs and gang-raped in rooms above takeaway shops, and were ferried to different flats in taxis where further abuse took place, sometimes with cash changing hands.Mr Watson told the women it was "a matter of profound personal regret that your childhood was so cruelly impacted by the dreadful experiences which you endured".The force settled the claim before the matter got to court.
She was later forced into prostitution and at 13, became pregnant by one of the men, Adil Khan, and had an abortion. The second woman was 14 when the abuse began. She later gave police the names or nicknames of 45 males who abused her or other children. On one occasion, she was picked up by police on the moors, miles outside Manchester, and told officers she told a man she did not want to sleep with him and he had taken her coat, thrown orange juice over her, and left her to walk home with no socks or shoes on.
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