Debbie: Do click on the post below, read the whole story, listen to Sara, look through the responses…
SHE FILED 181 REPORTS. POLICE TOLD HER THE CHILDREN WERE NOT RELIABLE WITNESSES.. Sara Rowbotham was an @NHS sexual health coordinator in Rochdale. From 2004, she started documenting what everyone with the authority to act had decided not to see.
Girls as young as 13. Groomed, trafficked, and raped by groups of men. She wrote it all down and reported it. 181 referrals to Greater Manchester Police and social services between 2004 and 2011. The answer was always the same. The girls were not credible witnesses. Not their problem.
Move along. Nine men were eventually convicted in 2012, but only because a new chief prosecutor arrived, read the evidence Sara had spent years building, and actually did something with it. The Crown Prosecution Service had previously dropped the case entirely. Sara had been right all along.
Then the system turned on her. She was blamed. Accused of failing to refer cases properly. The institution that had ignored 181 reports about the rape of children decided the problem was the woman who filed them.’
Do follow @ArturNadol7566 who is playing an outstanding and important role exposing appalling cover-ups and their eventual outcomes in the UK. Artur is a hero in his own right in my eyes. And I am so in awe of all the brave whistleblowers that Artur reveals. I feel gratitude to the whistleblowers and Artur for all their dedication, hard work, perseverance – and undoubted courage and humanity.
