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Gangs raped ‘lost' girls because no one cared
I t's always Sammy Woodhouse I think of when politicians start trading insults about who is to blame for the grooming gangs. The prettiest little girl in Rotherham dreamt of becoming a dancer but ended up 'like a dead body on a slab' after meeting Arshid (Mad Ash) Hussain, 24, a married father of two from Pakistan. When she was just 12, she told me, he started picking her up from school, showering her with gifts and making her feel special, until he plied her with vodka and spliffs while she was in her uniform. He began to abuse her with his accomplices on stained mattresses in abandoned flats.
'He could treat me like a queen. Then he used to get pissed off and beat and rape me. I felt it was my fault, and he was doing it to teach me to behave.' Everyone in authority knew: the police, teachers, shopkeepers and social services. 'It wasn't some dirty secret. I was dismissed as a slag, his sex doll.'
