Girl a

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Girl A (also Child A ) - English for girl A or child A - is the code name of a victim of the Rochdale Sex Trafficking Gang . Under the title " Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them ", an autobiography of the girl who had been sexually abused for years waspublished in October 2013. Girl A launched an investigation into a group of men, some of whom were later convicted. A research report into the Rotherham abuse scandal published in August 2014estimated that around 1,400 children were victims of sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

background

Girl A got caught up in a group of at least 12 men in 2007 when she was 14. A fast food place in Rochdale (near Manchester , England) served as bait. There the leader of the gang, Sabir Ahmed, offered the girl and her girlfriend alcohol and free food for several weeks. He was in his 50s and called himself "Daddy". Girl A had problems at home and at school, little money, an affinity for alcohol and fell for the friendliness. From 2008 onwards, like at least 46 other girls, she was passed around between the families of Sabir Ahmed and his friends over several years and was systematically abused by several men, often several times a day. One of the perpetrators' procedural patterns was “ grooming ”. Girl A quotes her first rapist in her autobiography: “This is part of our deal! I'll give you things, I'll buy you vodka. Now it's your turn to give me something. "

The key figure for the men was a girl who was their victim herself and who at the age of 15 began referring socially unstable minors to the group under threat of violence. In the book this person is called "The Honey Monster", alluding to the "Honey Pot" - the place to go in the fast food restaurant. The "Honey Monster" typically collected amounts of 20 to 50 pounds sterling from "Girl A's" rapists and passed the money on to "Daddy". She threatened the girls with violence if they resisted. Sabir Ahmed and other members of the gang threatened to kill her if she betrayed them.

Failure to help

Both the school and the father turned to Rochdale Social Services. However, they did not help the child, but argued that Girl A had voluntarily chosen a life as a prostitute. During a police interrogation ( Girl A had damaged the restaurant counter), the 15-year-old told of the abuse she suffered. However, the police did not investigate the allegations any further. Two motives played a role: Girls with alcohol problems were not believed; and they did not want to give the appearance of being Islamophobic . Only after another call for help, along with four other girls, did the police arrest the core of the group.

Court hearing

The case came to court in 2012 and was politically charged, as all the men were British of Pakistani origin except for one defendant who came from Afghanistan . The process was viewed critically by the British public. Some observers, like Slavoj Žižek, attest the Pakistani racist motives for explicitly abusing white girls. Alcohol played an important role in this - as a prohibited drug in Islam that made girls compliant. A similar pattern can be found in other cases in central and northern England (including Derby, Rotherham, Oxford and Telford), as well as in numerous smaller cases. Accordingly, there were isolated riots against Islam. On May 8, 2012, the court sentenced the gang members to terms of between 4 and 19 years in prison.

In December 2013, an investigation report commissioned by the police into the collective rape in and around Rochdale was published, which speaks of a failure of all social and official contact points for the girls. Girl A and other victims had made contact with doctors, hospitals, social workers, teachers, the police, but nobody responded to their suffering. The report reports, among other things, that the investigators in the police stations had no sensitivity to the problem; one policeman that Girl A called in yawned with boredom.

literature

  • Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them . Ebury, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-09-195134-4

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ see Rochdale sex trafficking gang in Wikipedia
  2. ↑ Girl A: The truth about the Rochdale sex ring by the victim who stopped them , Ebury, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-09-195134-4
  3. ↑ The Guardian: About 1,400 Rotherham children 'sexually exploited over 16-year-period , August 26, 2014, [1]
  4. ↑ see also Rotherham Sex Grooming Case in the English Wikipedia; Rotherham is about 100 km east of Rochdale.
  5. ↑ Girl A , Chapter 6. Translated from English.
  6. ↑ BBC Radio 4 Women's Hour, October 26, 2013.
  7. ↑ Slavoj Žižek : Frontiers of Multiculturalism , Zeit Online, September 5, 2014
  8. ↑ see Derby sex gang en , Rotherham sex grooming case en , Oxford sex gang en , Telford sex gang en
  9. ↑ Sam Marsden: Police probe three more 'major' child sex grooming rings . The Telegraph . October 24, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2014.
  10. ↑ Guardian on the Rochdale Sex Grooming Gangs Police Report , December 20, 2013