'These people have got away with it for life. This is never going to end.'
In an exclusive interview with Charlie Peters, a survivor of one of Oldham's depraved grooming gangs has opened up for the very first time on the abuse she suffered.
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In an exclusive interview with Charlie Peters, a survivor of one of Oldham's depraved grooming gangs has opened up for the very first time on the abuse she suffered.
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00:00I'd go out on my own at first.
00:07The father of a grooming gang victim, retracing the steps he took when he desperately searched
00:13for his missing daughter.
00:14My heart would have been beating like mad at this bit, and it still sort of is, believe
00:19it or not, because it's just like déjà vu, and you'd be just hoping that this time will
00:28come.
00:29Every time I catch her, I'm in the act, you know, I've got somebody talking to her, somebody
00:35trying to coerce her into the car or anything.
00:38We're keeping him anonymous for legal reasons.
00:41Over eight months, his daughter was regularly going missing from children's homes in Oldham,
00:47being driven away by groups of men.
00:50Her father would search for her and for the gangs who were exploiting her.
00:55Well, at first, for the first couple of nights, it was like five, six hours.
00:59I'd come out around around seven o'clock at night.
01:02I was just anxious all the time.
01:05You'd start looking up every street.
01:08One night, while looking for her with his friends, they noticed a girl in the window
01:12of a derelict home.
01:14Twenty years later, John took us back to the building.
01:18He hadn't been there since the night of the search.
01:22A friend of mine, he turned round and said, there's somebody out that window.
01:26They stormed the building.
01:28Four South Asian men were in the front room.
01:31I was then cherishing my daughter's name, going up the stairs, hoping that it was my
01:36daughter.
01:37I sat at the top of the stairs, I could see somebody in the bedroom, and I'm telling her
01:43that she's safe and all the rest of it.
01:44I couldn't think what to say to her.
01:47I said, you're all right, no one's going to hurt you.
01:50You're safe.
01:51The police are coming.
01:52You'll be all right.
01:53She came a bit closer, and I realised it weren't my daughter.
01:56I told her that we'll look after her, we'll keep her safe, and she came, and she sat just
02:00out of my arm's reach, and I said, have you got a phone number that you know that somebody
02:06can come and get you?
02:07She gave me a phone number, my father's phone number, her dad answered, and he was here
02:11within, what, five, ten minutes.
02:14The police were literally five minutes behind him.
02:17She got me back with her dad, and everything was great.
02:20The police took the four minutes of custody, and went off with them.
02:26Someone came and locked it all up, and we're still sat mulling around, and I'm really upset,
02:31because it weren't my daughter.
02:33I so much wanted it to be.
02:36It'd be over.
02:38But you'd been a hero to somebody else's daughter, you'd saved her.
02:41It doesn't count.
02:42I know it shouldn't, but it doesn't.
02:45But it's your daughter that's still out there, and you don't know what's happened to her.
02:50Jade, not her real name, said she was abused by dozens of men, after she was groomed by
02:56the gangs.
02:58Then they put something in my drink, and then four people raped me.
03:02Four people?
03:04Yeah.
03:06And I still speak to one of the guys that took me round them, which is a bit messed up.
03:13Do you remember trying to get help at the time?
03:15Yeah, they just didn't believe none of us.
03:18I met some of the families though.
03:20I met the wives, the mothers, the kids.
03:23It's just a bit messed up now I think of it.
03:26So some of the men who were abusing you were married?
03:28Mm-hmm.
03:29Did they have children themselves?
03:30Yeah.
03:32What was it like meeting them?
03:35They were awkward.
03:36They just told them that I was a girl that was working at the restaurant.
03:40Did any of them ever speak to you about what was going on?
03:42Yeah.
03:43One of the girls asked me how come my daddy brings loads of girls, but she was only two
03:46years younger than me, this girl.
03:48These abusive men, many of them fathers, would use violence to keep Jade quiet.
03:54Yeah, I'd been dangled off the top storey floor.
03:58My balcony had been dangled off by my feet by that trigger guy.
04:02So they were violent as well?
04:04Yeah.
04:05It wasn't just him who experienced violence, they were physically threatening, beyond just
04:08sexually abusing you as well?
04:10Yes, I'd been tied up and everything.
04:12I'd been stripped naked, tied up, put in a boot, put in a truck to the moors.
04:15They threw a stone at my window at the care home, told me to come out, so I climbed out
04:18the window, and I come down.
04:20And then he was trying to unmanage having none of it, and he took me to a house where
04:24there was two other girls there, and some guys, and these girls were crying and stuff,
04:28and I had to tell them to calm down.
04:30But I let them out.
04:31Because I let them out, they stripped me naked and tied me up.
04:35Were there lots of other situations like that?
04:37Yeah, loads.
04:38Oh, I can't remember most of them.
04:40I'd block them out.
04:43There were just so many traumatising situations?
04:45Mm-hmm.
04:46To the point where I just had to block it out, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to
04:48live my life.
04:49Do they regularly give you drink and drugs?
04:51Yeah, all the time.
04:52They even still try and do it now.
04:55So even now, almost 20 years on, they're still targeting you?
04:59Yeah.
05:00They're still the same people.
05:04Do you have much confidence that the people who were violent and sexually assaulted you
05:08might face justice at some point?
05:10No.
05:11Well, no.
05:12I'm pretty sure that these have got away with it for life.
05:15And they've got other people doing it.
05:17So other people are still going to carry on doing this.
05:19This is never going to end.
05:24Do you remember roughly how many men you encountered?
05:2885 men.
05:29I encountered every single one of them.
05:3185 men abused you in that period?
05:33Yeah.
05:3485 men.
05:35In the space of three years.
05:36And you still see them out and about in town?
05:38Yeah.
05:39What are they like when they encounter you?
05:41They put their head down.
05:43Some of them are like, hey, you all right?
05:45I'm like, yeah, you?
05:47Do you feel safe?
05:48Yeah.
05:50I ain't scared of nothing.
05:53I don't get scared of much.
05:57Unless it's a spider.
06:02When you reflect on how badly it's been for your daughter being targeted over so many years by gangs of men,
06:08and when you also look at how bad you say this problem is,
06:11not only just in the north but around the country,
06:13what was your reaction when the government voted against a public inquiry into the grooming gang scandal?
06:19It's just a massive cover-up.
06:21They're protecting their own jobs.
06:22That's all it is.
06:24I think if people knew what was going on on their doorstep,
06:27and they could actually see it,
06:29it would turn your stomach.
06:32The councils turn a blind eye to it.
06:34The police turn a blind eye to it.
06:36If anybody's turned around and turned a blind eye to it,
06:39I want them to be prosecuted.
06:41I want justice for my daughter.
06:43I want it stopped dead.
06:45And I want the people who are responsible to stand in court,
06:48and if they have to serve time, it'll serve them right.
06:50Perhaps they'll realise that their life could be ruined like mine has.
06:54Because I've got nowt left.
06:55They've took everything from me.
06:56Took my daughter.
06:57Can't take more than that.
07:00Charlie Peters, GB News, Oldham.
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