Broken and Betrayed

Broken and Betrayed
Author: Jayne Senior
Publisher: Pan Macmillan
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2016-03-24
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1509801618

For fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. As the manager of Risky Business, which was set up to work with vulnerable teens, she heard heartbreaking and shocking stories of abuse and assiduously kept notes and details of the perpetrators, passing information on to the authorities in the belief that they would do something. Eventually, when she lost hope that the authorities would take action against the gangs she had identified as the abusers, she became a whistleblower for The Times investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk. Now, in her powerful memoir Broken and Betrayed, she describes a life spent working to protect Rotherham's girls, the pressure put on her to stop rocking the boat, and why she risked prison in the hope that she could help end the appalling child exploitation in the town.

Just a Child

Just a Child
Author: Sammy Woodhouse
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018-04
Genre: Abused children
ISBN: 9781788700078

A chilling and heartbreaking story of how a trusting young girl ended up as the victim of psychological and sexual abuse. Sammy will be fully identified. This is one of the most high profile cases of its kind, when it was brought to national attention by Sammy's bravery in contacting a Times journalist. Sammy is currently working with the government to try and get changes implemented to protect other girls from being groomed in same way. Sammy had the courage to blow the whistle on child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, prompting the Jay Report.

Survivors

Survivors
Author: Maggie Oliver
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2019
Genre: Autobiographies
ISBN: 1789460859

A heartbreaking expose on the Rochdale grooming scandal from whistleblower and former detective Maggie Oliver.

Please, Let Me Go

Please, Let Me Go
Author: Caitlin Spencer
Publisher: Kings Road Publishing
Total Pages: 181
Release: 2017-08-24
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1786068400

‘I was trapped.I’d been raped so many times, abused by hundreds, if not thousands. They could have left every door open and it would have made no difference. And I always came back –they always brought me back.’ From the age of 14, Caitlin was controlled, raped, sold and passed on to new gangs across the UK over and over again. Her abusers were blatant in their attacks upon her, often collecting her from school or home, to be taken to flats they owned, family homes, or hotels booked for the day, to be horrifically and systematically abused. Having finally escaped, Please, Let Me Go is Caitlin’s shocking story of abuse and survival.

Girl for Sale

Girl for Sale
Author: Lara McDonnell
Publisher: Random House
Total Pages: 320
Release: 2015-04-23
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 147350161X

At the vulnerable age of 12, Lara McDonnell was picked out by a gang of men who befriended her, showered her with attention and gained her trust. Manipulated and groomed, her life quickly spiralled out of control as the men trafficked her around the country, deliberately keeping her compliant with drink and drugs. Deeply disturbed, and frightened about what the gang would do to her if she tried to break free, it would take over 4 years for Lara to find the strength to fight back, flee Oxford and escape her nightmare. This is her heartbreaking story.