'Raped by a dog': Westminster debate on grooming-gang survivor testimonies
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- TOI correspondent from London British MPs assembled at Westminster Hall heard this Monday graphic testimonies of grooming-gang survivors describing trafficking, rape and torture at the hands of mostly Pakistani-origin men, forcing parliament to revisit a sordid saga mothballed by decades of institutional failure.A survivor recounted in her recorded testimony, read out by Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe, how a gang of rapists once filled a room with dogs, "making bets on whether the dogs could actually rape me or not"."And yes, I was raped by a dog," she said.Another survivor who had been raped said, "I would wear my cross because it was something really, really special to me.
- They said, 'Where is your God now?
- Why has your God forsaken you?'"A fellow survivor said the offenders targeted "almost exclusively white girls".Particularly distressing was the testimony of a girl who said she had been raped by "600 or 700 men...
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TOI correspondent from London British MPs assembled at Westminster Hall heard this Monday graphic testimonies of grooming-gang survivors describing trafficking, rape and torture at the
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- TOI correspondent from London British MPs assembled at Westminster Hall heard this Monday graphic testimonies of grooming-gang survivors describing trafficking, rape and torture at the hands of mostly Pakistani-origin men, forcing parliament to revisit a sordid saga mothballed by decades of institutional failure.A survivor recounted in her recorded testimony, read out by Restore Britain MP Rupert Lowe, how a gang of rapists once filled a room with dogs, "making bets on whether the dogs could actually rape me or not"."And yes, I was raped by a dog," she said.Another survivor who had been raped said, "I would wear my cross because it was something really, really special to me.
- They said, 'Where is your God now?
- Why has your God forsaken you?'"A fellow survivor said the offenders targeted "almost exclusively white girls".Particularly distressing was the testimony of a girl who said she had been raped by "600 or 700 men over three years", her ordeal starting when she was 13.
- Another described how, at the age of 12, the horror of rape was compounded by her assailants sticking a liquor bottle into her genital area and breaking the glass.A survivor recounted being "raped by multiple police officers in different parts of the country".
- Yet another said white girls were trafficked through children's homes, the very institutions set up to look after them."Things would escalate around Eid and holidays.
📌 Source: Times of India
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