SHE REPORTED CHILD ABUSE 181 TIMES. BRITAIN SAID NOT NOW, THANKS.
Sara Rowbotham was an NHS sexual health coordinator in Rochdale. Between 2005 and 2011 she filed 181 detailed referrals to Greater Manchester Police and social services.
Each one named victims. Each one described systematic rape and trafficking of girls as young as 11. Each one went nowhere.
She was not ignored because the evidence was weak. She was ignored because the evidence was inconvenient.
Authorities labelled her not credible. Her team was dismissed. The official reason given for inaction was community cohesion.
Read that again.
Community cohesion. While children were being passed between men like property, the priority was keeping things quiet.
She was made redundant in 2014.
A 2024 independent review confirmed every referral she filed was credible, substantive and appropriately communicated. The same review identified 96 men still considered an active risk to children. Still out there. In 2024. Because the original response scraped only the surface and called it a job done.
Five police officers refused to cooperate with the review. They were not charged. They were not recalled. They retired on pensions.
Sara Rowbotham got an MBE.
The system that failed 181 times got a press release about lessons learned.
If this does not alarm you, you have not understood it yet.
@BBC@guardian@AndyBurnhamGM
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Born in Tottenham, London, on 23 April 1925, Alec was just 15 when war broke out.
He volunteered as a part-time air raid precautions messenger during the Blitz, then joined the Royal Navy in 1943.
he trained as a Submarine Detector (ASDIC/sonar operator) in 1943, choosing the role for the extra nine pence pay.
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