Broken and Betrayed
Author | : Jayne Senior |
Publisher | : Pan Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 385 |
Release | : 2016-03-24 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781509801619 |
ISBN-13 | : 1509801618 |
Rating | : 4/5 (618 Downloads) |
Download or read book Broken and Betrayed written by Jayne Senior and published by Pan Macmillan. This book was released on 2016-03-24 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fourteen years, Jayne Senior tried to help girls from Rotherham who had been groomed, raped, tortured, pimped and threatened with violence by sex traffickers. As the manager of Risky Business, which was set up to work with vulnerable teens, she heard heartbreaking and shocking stories of abuse and assiduously kept notes and details of the perpetrators, passing information on to the authorities in the belief that they would do something. Eventually, when she lost hope that the authorities would take action against the gangs she had identified as the abusers, she became a whistleblower for The Times investigative reporter Andrew Norfolk. Now, in her powerful memoir Broken and Betrayed, she describes a life spent working to protect Rotherham's girls, the pressure put on her to stop rocking the boat, and why she risked prison in the hope that she could help end the appalling child exploitation in the town.