A victim of a Rochdale grooming gang has said she was raped more than 100 times from the age of 12 and felt "let down" by police.
Ruby also told BBC Newsnight police took her aborted foetus away for DNA testing without telling her. Former detective Maggie Oliver said that years after Ruby's abuse, child sexual exploitation was still happening across the country.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was "deeply sorry" for failing victims.
"Poor service" in Rochdale in the early 2000s was a "profound regret", the force said, adding that while child sexual exploitation had "not been eradicated" officers would "continue to police without fear or favour".
Ruby said she wanted to help other abused children who need to "feel listened to and heard" when they report the crime to police. She has called for counselling to be offered after police interviews. In January, a review revealed girls in Rochdale were "left at the mercy" of paedophile grooming gangs for years because of failings by senior police and council bosses.
It focused on 111 cases in the town from 2004 to 2013 and set out a series of failed investigations by GMP, identifying 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children.
Rochdale Council said it was "determined to ensure these terrible failures do not happen again". Ruby, whose real name cannot be revealed for legal reasons, said the abuse started after some older men invited her and her friends to a takeaway and a flat for food and drinks.
For a few weeks that was all that happened. But one day at the flat "they wouldn't let us in the room" because other people were in there, she said. "They gave us a litre of vodka with no mixer and 10 fags. So by the time we went in the other room, we were all really drunk." 'Became numb' Ruby said there were about "30 to 40 men waiting for us" and then "they raped me... continuously".
"One would finish [raping me] and then the other one would come in and it was just like that all night." She said the abuse continued because the gang threatened her and she felt "there was no way out". "They'd get our numbers, they'd come to the schools, they'd come near my house, they'd come everywhere and they'd look for us and find us." She said she was raped "possibly over a hundred [times]" by men "from all over the country" for four years.
Ruby also told BBC Newsnight police took her aborted foetus away for DNA testing without telling her. Former detective Maggie Oliver said that years after Ruby's abuse, child sexual exploitation was still happening across the country.
Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said it was "deeply sorry" for failing victims.
"Poor service" in Rochdale in the early 2000s was a "profound regret", the force said, adding that while child sexual exploitation had "not been eradicated" officers would "continue to police without fear or favour".
Ruby said she wanted to help other abused children who need to "feel listened to and heard" when they report the crime to police. She has called for counselling to be offered after police interviews. In January, a review revealed girls in Rochdale were "left at the mercy" of paedophile grooming gangs for years because of failings by senior police and council bosses.
It focused on 111 cases in the town from 2004 to 2013 and set out a series of failed investigations by GMP, identifying 96 men still deemed a potential risk to children.
Rochdale Council said it was "determined to ensure these terrible failures do not happen again". Ruby, whose real name cannot be revealed for legal reasons, said the abuse started after some older men invited her and her friends to a takeaway and a flat for food and drinks.
For a few weeks that was all that happened. But one day at the flat "they wouldn't let us in the room" because other people were in there, she said. "They gave us a litre of vodka with no mixer and 10 fags. So by the time we went in the other room, we were all really drunk." 'Became numb' Ruby said there were about "30 to 40 men waiting for us" and then "they raped me... continuously".
"One would finish [raping me] and then the other one would come in and it was just like that all night." She said the abuse continued because the gang threatened her and she felt "there was no way out". "They'd get our numbers, they'd come to the schools, they'd come near my house, they'd come everywhere and they'd look for us and find us." She said she was raped "possibly over a hundred [times]" by men "from all over the country" for four years.
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