A 'badger baiting' site was uncovered by police, with investigations continuing. The plot of disturbed earth was discovered by a campaigning charity and reported to Greater Manchester Police.
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The horrific case of a 12-year-old girl who was raped by strangers and let down by authorities in Oldham is ‘not unique’, says the ex-detective who has repeatedly blown the whistle on child abuse failings.
Maggie Oliver, a former detective constable with Greater Manchester Police (GMP), resigned from her job claiming that the force had failed the victims of the Rochdale sex grooming scandal. She has since been instrumental in Mayor Andy Burnham’s decision to launch a wide-reaching assurance review looking into failures in how police and social services protected vulnerable girls.
The first part of that review, published in 2020, focused on the abandoned ‘Augusta’ police operation which was investigating abuse by mainly Pakistani men in the Rusholme area of Manchester. The authors, Malcolm Newsam and Gary Ridgway, proved that the force closed down the operation despite knowing that scores of potential paedophiles were preying on vulnerable girls, many living in council-run care homes.
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Now the second part of that overarching review, this time focusing on Oldham and how services handled allegations of child sexual exploitation and protected children, has been published. Its damning findings are all too familiar for Maggie, who describes reading it as being like ‘groundhog day’.
During 2005 to 2006, and 2011 to 2014, the report has found that vulnerable children in the borough were being exploited and let down by institutions which tried and failed to protect them. In an individual case, the review found that Sophie – not her real name – fell into the hands of predators after trying to report a sexual
A 'badger baiting' site was uncovered by police, with investigations continuing. The plot of disturbed earth was discovered by a campaigning charity and reported to Greater Manchester Police.
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admitted breaching a restraining order by sending abusive messages to her ex-husband Kieran Hayler about his fiancee Michelle Penticost. She was sentenced to a medium-level community order and she has been ordered to pay £1,500 in costs over the next 28 days. She has been ordered to serve 170 hours of community service within 18 months - this includes 150 hours, plus the 20 hours added in place of the breach of a restraining order.
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