I was raped over 100 times by a gang of carers from the age of 12… The police secretly took my aborted baby – I was abandoned
A GROOMING gang victim who was raped more than 100 times from the age of 12 has revealed how police secretly took her aborted baby.
The victim, named only as Ruby, says she was 'abandoned' by police after being targeted by Asian gang predators in Rochdale.
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She also revealed how Police took her aborted fetus for DNA testing when she was just 13 years old, without telling her.
Ruby has bravely decided to speak out against the horror abuse after one damning report Last month police discovered children in the city were being left at the 'mercy' of care gangs.
She said BBC Newsnight she was raped “possibly over a hundred [times]' by men 'from all over the country' for four years.
The abuse started when she was 12, after she and a friend were invited to a flat for a takeaway by a group of older men.
Ruby initially said nothing would happen, but after a few weeks she was put through a liter of straight vodka and cigarettes before being led drunk into a room full of people.
She said she was raped 'constantly' by up to 40 men, adding: 'One would finish [raping me] and then the other one came in and it stayed that way all night.”
Ruby said the gang threatened her and she felt there was “no way out”.
They showed up at the victim's school and near her home before taking her to several towns where she was repeatedly attacked.
Ruby said, “I feel like I've just become numb to it.”
In 2008 she went to a sex party health clinic for help, but was only given condoms and sent away.
Ruby also says she tried to raise the ordeal at school and with social services, but nothing ever happened.
It wasn't until 2009 that she received a child protection plan and the Police were aware of the situation.
But instead of protecting Ruby, officers from Greater Manchester Police took her aborted baby from hospital without telling her.
They then placed the fetus in a freezer at a police station DNA the tests failed to narrow in on possible suspects investigation into a grooming gang.
The baby remained forgotten until a “routine property review” several years later, while the girl continued to be abused.
She was left to fend for herself while being threatened by gang members after bravely coming forward to report her abuser.
Ruby's story is just one of dozens revealed in a shocking report the scandalin which hundreds of vulnerable young girls were exploited by Asian men in Rochdale.
I want every child who walks through the doors of the police station and reports sexual abuse to feel listened to and listened to.
Victim Ruby
One victim told officers she was kept in a cage and “made to bark like a dog or dress like a baby,” but GMP took no action when she left the area and was housed elsewhere.
If cases have been reached courtYoung victims were left by officers to be “harassed and intimidated by the men who had previously abused them” – sometimes at gunpoint, the report found.
Ruby herself was forced to come face to face with one of her attackers while in a local store.
He had been released from prison halfway through his sentence, but the victim was not informed.
Ruby said: “At first I did a double take because I didn't really believe what I had seen. When I realized he was there, I ran.
“Then I just went home and after that I didn't leave the house for three months.”
The report was written by Mr Newsam and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective chief inspector, following allegations made by whistleblowers Sara Rowbotham and Maggie Oliver.
The couple's battle to bring abusers to justice and expose their horrific crimes was revealed in BBC TV documentary The Betrayed Girls.
Mr Newsham and Mr Ridgeway discovered they were “lone voices” who had noticed the clear evidence of “prolific serial rape of countless children in Rochdale”.
Abandoned – what the Rochdale report revealed
Report co-author Malcolm Newsam CBE found Ruby's story was just one of the “lamentable” failings of GMP and council bosses.
The 173-page report, which covers the period 2004 to 2013, identifies 96 men who are still considered a potential risk to children, but most of them have yet to be prosecuted.
It warned that the figure is “only a portion” of those involved in the horror.
There were also at least 74 children who were sexually exploited – and in 48 of those cases there were serious shortcomings in child protection
On some occasions no action was taken against grooming gang members, including one who left a 15-year-old girl pregnant.
In a particularly shocking finding, a victim known as Amber was arrested and then released on bail to live with a man who had already been detained on suspicion of child sexual exploitation.
The Crown prosecutordecided, in consultation with GMP, to name Amber as a co-conspirator in a lawsuit involving her abusers.
The report found that this was “deplorable further abuse of a CSE survivor” and “an “incredible example of poor practice”.
Other examples were also described showing 'compelling evidence' of the widespread, organized sexual abuse of children in Rochdale from 2004 onwards.
There was a “serious failure” to protect the children, who were often vulnerable and from poorer backgrounds.
Authorities even identified the gang's leaders but did not investigate further because the children were too scared to help, the report found.
Some police operations – including one in two takeaways involving 30 adult male suspects – were aborted prematurely because police bosses failed to deploy resources properly.
The CPS also ruled that the main child victim was an unreliable witness.
It was not until 2010 – more than two years later – that GMP finally launched Operation Span to tackle the abuse claims.
Nine men were convicted in 2012 after preying on girls as young as twelve alcohol and drugs before being gang raped.
But while police and council bosses presented the verdict as a solution to the city's bullying, the reality was that it had only 'scraped the surface'.
GMP has since apologized and said similar cases are now being handled very differently.
But Ruby says more needs to be done to help victims of sexual violence, including providing psychological support after police contact Job interviews.
She added: “I want every child who walks through the doors of the police station reporting sexual abuse to feel listened to and listened to.
“I feel like there's a lot of emotions going on. Instead of taking it home and just figuring it out [their] own [they should be] putting them in a room with a professional so they can talk about the trauma.”
Rochdale Borough Council said: 'We are deeply sorry that the people present in Rochdale Council from 2004 to 2013, like many other parts of the country, did not recognize or acknowledge what was happening and failed to to take the necessary action to protect the population. children against abuse.
“Much more rigorous practices are in place today and we are determined to ensure these terrible failures do not happen again.”
- Ruby's story will be on BBC Newsnight on BBC2 and on BBC iPlayer at 10.30pm
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