UP to 1,000 children could have suffered in Britain’s worst known abuse scandal - where sex gangs targeted girls as young as 11.
The rape hell of vulnerable young girls in one town - Telford - went on for a shocking 40 years, the Sunday Mirror can reveal.
Despite similar high-profile cases in Rochdale and Rotherham, authorities in Telford repeatedly failed to stamp out a network of abusers.
Social workers knew of abuse in the 1990s but police took a decade to launch a probe.
The scale of the abuse uncovered in Telford – population 170,000 – is feared to be the most brutal and long-running of all.
Tonight Telford’s Tory MP Lucy Allan demanded a public inquiry and said our findings were “extremely serious and shocking”.
1996 A concerned resident claims she tells police about the activities of a key abuser selling underage girls for sex. »