I personally was groomed and abused for nearly a decade from the age of five to about 14.

I then went through the justice system was sort of chewed up and spat back out as many young girls are.

People find it a lot easier to ignore victims than they do to go after the perpetrators.

It was due to nervousness about race that in many cases the police and local authorities refused to take these cases.

They were worried about being called racist, they were worried about being called right wing or bigot.

Child sexual exploitation is still happening in towns and cities across the UK.

This isn't a crime of the past and this is another thing that those infositions of authority like to say.

The mistakes were made and lessons were learned but this isn't happening anymore.

It's recently as 2020 in England and Wales alone there was over 700 reports of alleged child sexual exploitation by refusing to let myself become all consumed and become prey to what was done to me.

I can defy all of those expectations for me.

It's kind of like giving the middle finger and saying you tried everything you could to break me and I still rose up.

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kissen.

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a journalist and what I'm introducing. I should make clear she's not Sam Smith.

She's Samantha Smith. Samantha Smith, welcome to Trigonometry.

Thank you for having me.

It's really good to have you on the show. We've got lots to talk about before we do and in fact help us set it up by telling us your story.

Who are you? How are you? How are you? What has been your journey through life that leads you to be sitting here talking to us?

Yeah, of course. I am 20 years old. I'm from I was originally born in Surrey but I moved to Telford in the West Midlands.

I was very young. I sort of fell into this line of work when I was 17.

I had always been interested in politics and current affairs.

...