More than 1,000 children were sexually exploited in Telford over decades, inquiry finds

More than a thousand children were sexually exploited in just one English town over decades, a bombshell inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Telford Child Sexual Abuse cataloged a horrific history of grooming and gang rapes, spikes in teenage pregnancies and the use of death threats to silence vulnerable victims.

It heard about one so-called “rape house” which was “operating for years” and found victims were treated as “common prostitutes” by the authorities. Tom Crowther QC, the inquiry chair, slammed the response of police and council officials saying that “obvious child sexual exploitation was ignored” and that “key agencies blamed children, not perpetrators, for exploitation”.

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