“They weren’t worth it,” said Maggie Oliver, with deep annoyance bordering on disgust,
the police inspector who was in charge of the investigation before resigning.
“Too expensive to investigate for these girls,” she sums up.
Words that set the scene on this affair.
In the 2000s, the British government decided to tackle one of the national scourges: unwanted teenage pregnancies and repeated abortions.
Crisis social services (the equivalent of our family planning services) are open to curb the phenomenon.
At the head of the service in Rochdale, a town in the north-west of England, Sara Robowtham sees young girls exposed to sexuality from the age of 10, in more than sordid circumstances, in exchange for money, for school hours, sometimes with several boys, often under the influence of alcohol.
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