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Full scale Grooming gang

“She was handed over…simply as a birthday present.” Nigel Bunyan, Journalist & Ghost Writer of ‘Girl A: My Story’“Every time we went up it always led to something sexual.”Lily, Child Abuse victimIn the Greater Manchester towns of Rochdale, and Oldham, girls - children - are drugged, made drunk and then driven all over the North of England to be used for sex by men. Such is the demand, sometimes the men form queues. “…maybe 20 men would be queueing to have their turn.”Nigel Bunyan, Journalist & Ghostwriter ‘Girl A: My Story’If the drink or the drugs have not made the females incapable of resisting, physical violence, or the fear and threat of something worse, ensure their submission.  

If the drink or the drugs have not made the females incapable of resisting, physical violence, or the fear and threat of something worse, ensure their submission. “If he wanted something, it was either ‘yeah’, or, it happen in a bad way.”Lily, Child Abuse victimAnd worse, this perverted world had been made seemingly normal by patient grooming by the predators. To an outsider, it seems unbelievable that children could feel obligated to have sex with adults out of a sense of obligation, but these children are targeted, as Adele Gladden, of Safeguarding Children’s Consent explains, because they’re vulnerable.  “…grooming meets a need. Quite often it meets a need in the young person to feel loved….once you know you’ve got a young person to a position of having complete trust in you, then you will manipulate the situation to make them think…that you’re deserving of something and make them think that it’s totally normal…to demand sex…in exchange for…cigarettes.”