Telford abuse scandal

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As abuse scandal of Telford is the gang- organized sexual abuse of children and adolescents , child prostitution and trafficking of children and adolescents in the UK Telford, West Midlands , respectively.

The incident became known to the public in particular through research by the Daily Mirror . They were supported by Liz Kelly from the Child and Woman Abuse Studies Unit at London Metropolitan University . In September 2016, the Conservative MP for Telford, MP Lucy Allan , had asked for an investigation.

Up to 1,000 girls are said to have been forced into prostitution by British-Pakistani pimps between the 1980s and 2010s . The youngest victim was eleven years old. The girls were usually white British.

In 2000, one of the pimps set fire to the family home of one of the victims, killing the abuse victim, his sister, and his mother. The act has since deterred other abuse victims from defending themselves.

In the police files, the girls concerned were identified as “prostitutes” and not as victims of abuse. Doctors who performed abortions and pharmacists who sold the morning-after pill were also silent. As with other abuse scandals in the UK, the authorities and social workers did not react because they feared serving racial prejudice. Out of 200 men suspected of pimping, only nine were sentenced to prison terms.

The case is similar to the Rotherham and Rochdale abuse scandals .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Nick Sommerlad, Geraldine McKelvie: Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even killed. In: Daily Mirror , March 11, 2018
  2. ↑ Harriet Agerholm: Telford MP calls for inquiry into 'extremely serious and shocking' abuse in the town. In: The Independent , March 11, 2018.
  3. ↑ Claudia Becker: Authorities, doctors, pharmacists - a whole city looked away. In: Welt (Online), March 13, 2018.
  4. ^ MP Lucy Allan calls for Telford child sex abuse inquiry. In: BBC News, October 26, 2016.
  5. ↑ Tanja Unterweger: "No worse than in any other place in England" In: FAZ (Online), March 19, 2018.
  6. ↑ Harriet Agerholm: Telford MP calls for inquiry into 'extremely serious and shocking' abuse in the town. In: The Independent , March 11, 2018.
  7. ↑ Claudia Becker: Authorities, doctors, pharmacists - a whole city looked away. In: Welt (Online), March 13, 2018.