How Could You? Hall of Shame-UK-12-Year-Old Girl

This will be an archive of heinous actions by those involved in child welfare, foster care and adoption. We forewarn you that these are deeply disturbing stories that may involve sex abuse, murder, kidnapping and other horrendous actions.

From Lancashire, England, a 12-year-old girl was living in a group home after having living “through a number of failed foster and adoption placements and ended up living at 14 addresses and attended four different primary schools before moving to the home next to where she was attacked.”

“The girl, who was under the care of Knowsley Council, Merseyside but was living in Lancashire at the time, was led to a wooded area by girls she didn’t know.

There she was raped by three teenage boys while other young people had sex nearby, Liverpool Echo reported.

A police investigation has been launched after the tearful girl explained what had happened to her.

She was living in a home for orphans in Lancashire at the time of the horrific incident.

Lancashire Police have now been criticised for failing to alert the children’s home that the park on its doorstop was considered a hub for vile sex abuse.

The children’s home, which is rated inadequate by Ofsted, was slammed for placing the child in an “extreme position of vulnerability” on the night she was raped.

An investigation has also been launched by Knowsley’s Safeguarding Children’s Partnership to review the girl’s time in the home before the attack.

She was taken from her parents as a baby because both her mother and father were “considered to pose a risk of significant harm”, the report states.”

“”She gave a clear description of having been led by a girl that she did not know to a wooded area where she was raped by three teenage boys.

“A number of other boys and girls were present in the vicinity ‘having sex’.”

Two girls accused of leading her to the wooded area were charged with arranging or facilitating sexual offences against children and perverting the course of justice.

They were released on bail and staff at the children’s home were warned it may come under scrutiny as a result of the investigation.

The day after Lancashire Police launched their investigation officers and social workers met to discuss the sexual abuse hub next to the children’s home.

The Serious Case Review reads: “Crucially, [the children’s home] was not aware that police had concerns about the park and so did not appreciate that the location of the children’s home itself might have increased the girl’s vulnerability.””

Girl, 12, raped by gang of teens in park branded ‘sex abuse hotspot’ by police
[The Daily Mirror 1/10/21 by Joe Thomas]

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