Whistleblower: Police still failing child sex abuse victims
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🗓️ 22 January 2024
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
An independent review covering a period between 2004 and 2013, which was published last week, detailed multiple failed investigations by police and an apparent indifference to the safety of the young girls identified as possible victims.
Now, one anonymous whistleblower who resigned from GMP last year says the force has not changed and that failures have left a paedophile ring at large for at least seven years.
On the Sky News Daily, presenter Anna Jones is joined by our home editor Jason Farrell who has spoken to the anonymous former detective constable.
Plus, ex-GMP detective constable Maggie Oliver, who blew the whistle on the poor handling of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring case by the force years ago, reacts to the new accusations.
Producers: Soila Apparicio and Alex Edden
Promotions producer: Jada-Kai Meosa John
Editor: Wendy Parker
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| 0:31.7 | Hello, I'm Anna Jones and this is the Sky News Daily. |
| 0:38.0 | PED of our gangs are still operating thanks to failures at Greater Manchester Police. |
| 0:43.8 | That's what a former police officer who wanted to remain anonymous has been telling us. |
| 0:48.6 | We're calling her Lucy and she said that the child protection unit where she worked wasn't fit for purpose |
| 0:53.9 | and she had to leave her job as she couldn't help the children who were being abused. |
| 0:59.1 | The thought that I was failing them, it was just too much for me. |
| 1:04.5 | Reports into the failings of Greater Manchester Police to deal with child sex abuse go back nearly 20 years. |
| 1:09.7 | The latest report published just last week |
| 1:12.7 | found multiple failed investigations by police |
| 1:16.0 | and an apparent indifference to the safety of the girls, |
| 1:19.3 | some of them as young as 11, |
| 1:21.1 | who'd been identified as potential victims. |
| 1:23.7 | The lessons from our past have been well and truly learned, and they are solidly baked into today's practice. |
| 1:34.9 | Chief Constable Stephen Watson there. |
| 1:37.2 | Well, our home editor Jason Farrell spoke to Lucy, and he's here to tell us her story. |
| 1:44.0 | So Jason, this isn't the first time that Greater Manchester Police has been accused of failing survivors of child abuse. |
| 1:51.4 | So give us a sense of the context of these latest allegations. |
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