Rochdale grooming whistleblower reveals ‘tick’ system rapists used
A former police officer who famously turned whistleblower to help bring down the Rochdale grooming gangs has revealed the twisted ‘tick’ system child rapists used to log their horrific abuse.
Maggie Oliver, who left Greater Manchester Police force in disgust over their handling of the gangs, has laid bare the shocking abuse young girls suffered at the hands of depraved predators in Rochdale.
Speaking on the new series of hit Daily Mail podcast, Everything I Know About Me, Ms Oliver revealed: ‘They’d go into a flat in Rochdale and there was a list on the back of the door, all the names of these men on the door and then there’d be a tick box next to it.
‘And they’d tick every time they would go into this flat and they’d have to pay the flat owner kind of rent for for going raping children in that flat.’
Ms Oliver told listeners about a 12-year-old girl, Ruby, who was one of the many victims that were plied with alcohol and raped in Rochdale.
She explained: ‘Ruby said she’d go into this room and there’d be a circle of chairs in the room. She said on interview that they’d only take one white girl in at a time because there’s no witness then, is there?
‘You’ve got her word against 12 men or 20 men. They’re all gonna say, no we didn’t do anything. But they’d give her vodka, and Ruby said “they would pass me round like a ball.”
Maggie Oliver, who left Greater Manchester Police force in disgust over their handling of the gangs, has laid bare the shocking abuse young girls suffered at the hands of depraved predators in Rochdale
‘One would take her into the room and rape her, then another man would go in, then another man. She was paralytic with the vodka by then. And over a space of months, and actually years, they become so traumatised and frightened and they don’t know where to go.’
Ms Oliver continued: ‘They were going to get strawberry flavoured condoms from the crisis intervention team. They were missing school and being allowed to sleep on the benches in this health centre. Parents weren’t being informed.
‘There’s so many things in this whole system where these children have been failed. They should have been protected. You shouldn’t be giving a 12-year-old contraceptive injections without speaking to the mum. That for me isn’t child protection.’
Ms Oliver has also spoken candidly about the decision to leave Greater Manchester Police 12 years ago to expose the failings and bring down the grooming gangs.
She revealed: ‘I resigned in the October [2012], but with that decision came a lot of sacrifices for me.
‘I lost a career that I loved, I’d done nothing wrong, but I lost my income. I’ve got four kids. My husband’s dead. I couldn’t afford the family home that we’d lived in for 25 years. So I had to move to a small apartment. I took a lodger in.
‘I’m living on next to nothing. I thought I’d probably end up in Marks and Spencers. bnt I am going to tell the truth. wherever that leads. I went to Panorama, but I feared that I would go to prison because that’s what I’d been told.
‘But really all any of us have at the end of the day is our conscience.’
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