With many thanks to journalist John Scheerhout for the exclusive. We need to get these bastards off our streets and locked up!
Police who smashed the Rochdale child sex ring believe they have uncovered a SECOND grooming scandal in the town.
The M.E.N. can today reveal that several men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing the same girl.
The alleged abuse is believed to have taken place over a six-year period when the girl was in her teens.
Sources described her as ‘extremely vulnerable’. Detectives have carried out video interviews with the girl, who told them she knew the men only by nicknames.
A string of suspects were tracked down by officers and a number of arrests have now been made.
The men in question are all from Asian and Afro-Caribbean backgrounds, the M.E.N. understands.
Detectives are exploring possible links between the men, although none have been established so far.
A file of evidence is expected to handed over to the Crown Prosecution Service within weeks. The news comes just days after nine Asian men from Rochdale and Oldham were jailed over the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 13.
The gang was convicted on the back of evidence from five witnesses, who suffered horrific abuse between 2008-2010.
The team of detectives who investigated the case encountered 47 other girls who they believe were also the victim of sexual abuse.
One is the alleged victim behind the latest arrests.
The suspects do not include any of the men jailed this week.
One senior detective told the M.E..: “Enquiries are continuing. Just because the trial has finished and nine men have been convicted does not mean the operation has stopped.
“We are continuing to chip away, gaining the confidence of the girls.”
The conclusion of the case this week sent shockwaves through the Rochdale community and sparked a major debate about whether the crimes were racially motivated.
Judge Gerald Clifton, jailing the nine, suggested they had targeted their victims because they were ‘not of your community or religion’.
But police and political leaders denied the crimes were about race – saying the men had targeted their victims simply because they were vulnerable.
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Police who smashed the Rochdale child sex ring believe they have uncovered a SECOND grooming scandal in the town.
The M.E.N. can today reveal that several men have been arrested on suspicion of sexually abusing the same girl.
The alleged abuse is believed to have taken place over a six-year period when the girl was in her teens.
Sources described her as ‘extremely vulnerable’. Detectives have carried out video interviews with the girl, who told them she knew the men only by nicknames.
A string of suspects were tracked down by officers and a number of arrests have now been made.
The men in question are all from Asian and Afro-Caribbean backgrounds, the M.E.N. understands.
Detectives are exploring possible links between the men, although none have been established so far.
A file of evidence is expected to handed over to the Crown Prosecution Service within weeks. The news comes just days after nine Asian men from Rochdale and Oldham were jailed over the sexual exploitation of girls as young as 13.
The gang was convicted on the back of evidence from five witnesses, who suffered horrific abuse between 2008-2010.
The team of detectives who investigated the case encountered 47 other girls who they believe were also the victim of sexual abuse.
One is the alleged victim behind the latest arrests.
The suspects do not include any of the men jailed this week.
One senior detective told the M.E..: “Enquiries are continuing. Just because the trial has finished and nine men have been convicted does not mean the operation has stopped.
“We are continuing to chip away, gaining the confidence of the girls.”
The conclusion of the case this week sent shockwaves through the Rochdale community and sparked a major debate about whether the crimes were racially motivated.
Judge Gerald Clifton, jailing the nine, suggested they had targeted their victims because they were ‘not of your community or religion’.
But police and political leaders denied the crimes were about race – saying the men had targeted their victims simply because they were vulnerable.
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