Victim of Rotherham paedo gang’s ringleader reveals how police repeatedly ignored pleas for help
Sammy Woodhouse was groomed, raped and viciously beaten when she was aged 14 by a notorious paedophile abuser who impregnated her twice
A VICTIM of a Rotherham paedophile ring has spoken about how police and social services repeatedly failed to save her from the clutches of an evil rapist.
Sammy Woodhouse was aged just 14 in 1999 when she was groomed, raped and fell pregnant to 25-year-old paedo ringleader Arshid “Ash” Hussain.
Writing in the , Sammy, 32, reveals how she fell in love with her abuser, known as Mad Ash, who would ply her with drink and drugs in dingy flat which had no furniture.
Hussain was part of a paedophile gang, who along with many others groups in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, abused over 1,000 kids between 1997 and 2013.
After picking Sammy up at local shops one night, the “dangerous criminal” told her he had spent time in jail and had stolen cars.
Infatuated with Hussain, the schoolgirl started seeing the British Pakistani man nearly every day and soon began a sexual relationship with her violent and sadistic abuser.
When Sammy’s father found out about the relationship, he grounded her and reported Hussain to South Yorkshire Police.
However, he was told that cops would take no action as there was “no evidence of any wrongdoing” calling the case a “family dispute.”
Sammy said: “But most shocking of all, throughout everything, the police and social services knew what was going on.
“The care authorities wrote detailed reports about Ash but did nothing to stop him.
“I’d been catastrophically let down by the very people who should have protected me.”
After a month they were having sex daily. Twice he got her pregnant, the first time she had an abortion, but when she was 15 she gave birth to a baby boy named James.
Hussain also persuaded Sammy to break the law - including taking part in an armed post office robbery, she claims.
Sammy says he would hit her and threaten her with violence to exert his control.
She told The Sun Online: “Once we were in an argument and he went speeding up to the end of a cliff top, got me out of the car and threatened to throw me off.”
Her distraught parents had asked for Sammy to be taken into care to keep her away from Hussain.
Yet social workers allowed him to keep meeting the vulnerable teen, even though they knew he had been in prison.
Sammy said: “The last time I had sex with him was when I was in care and pregnant.
“There were two conditions to me seeing him when I was in care.
“One was that I met him at the top of the street and the other was that I was at home for ten.
“My parents placed me in care, hoping that it would stop the contact with him. In fact it just encouraged it. The only thing it did stop was me running away.”
She was 16 when she first went to the police to tell them about Hussain but her claims fell on deaf ears.
Sammy is convinced it was this pattern of being ignored by the people who were meant to protect her that got her deeper into trouble.
It was only in 2012 that she plucked up the courage to talk to the Jay Inquiry.
In February 2016, following a high profile court case into the Rotherham sex scandal, Arshid Hussain, 41, was jailed for 35 years for 23 offences, which included rape and indecent assault.
Among his nine victims was an 11-year-old girl.
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His brothers Basharat, 39, and Bannaras, 36, were also put behind bars for offences including rape and indecent assault.
Hussain is now in a wheelchair having been hit in the stomach during a gangland shooting in 2005.
Sammy’s feelings about her abuser are conflicted. She said: “There’s times when I still feel angry at him, there’s times when I want to cry and then there’s times when I think a part of me will always love him because he gave me my son.”
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