Over 1,000 children in Telford, England were sexually abused because of the failure of police and local government to investigate the offenders.
Tom Crowther, chairman of an inquiry said, “Countless children were sexually assaulted and raped since 1989. They were deliberately humiliated, degraded, shared and trafficked.”
“Victims and survivors repeatedly told the inquiry how, when they were children, adult men worked to gain their trust before ruthlessly betraying that trust, treating them as sexual objects or commodities.”
The inquiry was launched after a 2018 Sunday Mirror investigation found sexual exploitation reports dating back to the 1980s.
According to report, teachers and youth workers were discouraged from reporting child sexual abuse and police were nervous that investigating some of the Asian men who carried out the abuse would inflame racial tensions.
