Whistleblowers who raised fears over one of Britain's worst child abuse scandals that affected nearly 1,000 victims were FORCED OUT or ignored.
A pair of whistleblowers who raised fears over the Telford child sex abuse scandal which affected up to 1,000 girls were both punished and silenced, it emerged today. As many as 1,000 girls, some as young as 11, in the town of Telford, Shropshire, were drugged, beaten and raped at the hands of a grooming gang active since the 1980s. Lucy Lowe, 16 (left), died alongside her mother and sister after the man who had been abusing her, 26-year-old Azhar Ali Mehmood, set fire to their house (bottom right). Vicky Round and Becky Watson also suffered serious sex abuse at the hands of the depraved gang. Mubarek Ali, 34, (inset, top) and his brother Ahdel Ali, 27 (inset, bottom), both from Telford, were both jailed after sexually abusing young girls as part of a child sex abuse ring in the town. It has now been revealed that police chaplain Keith Osmund-Smith (top right) was suspended after he passed papers to the newspaper and a report commissioned by the council revealed social workers knew of the sex crimes before the turn of the millennium. Meanwhile, a woman who was hired by sex abuse charity Axis Counselling was forced to leave her role after she tried to speak up. Mail.
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