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Why Chelsey?

In all the cases involving rape gangs here in the UK, the victim's right to anonymity has meant that we had only statistics to help us understand what was happening. Although the statistics are appalling, for example in Rotherham, a town of some 110,000 inhabitants, over 1400 children and young girls were groomed and sexually abused and exploited between 1997-2013. Most of the girls were aged 11-15 and at least one, Laura Wilson, was murdered . So we finally have a name and a face, unfortunately, she has become another, even more tragic, statistic. There are many more towns, with many more statistics to peruse  but we also now have a victim brave enough to forgo anonymity and tell us her story. Chelsey Wright is not a child victim and was not groomed for abuse nor had knowledge of, or relationship with any of her attackers, but the rest is predictably similar: a gang of muslim men ready to rape and assault at their first opportunity. There is another uncomfortably familiar...