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『レイプギャング調査報告書』被害者証言：クロエの物語
〜制度的怠慢と、何百人もの男たちによる性的搾取に立ち向かった1人の生存者の記録〜
本稿は、イギリス国内で発生した組織的児童性的搾取の実態を告発する『The Rape Gang Inquiry Report（レイプギャング調査報告書）』に基づき、最初の生存者である「クロエ（Chloe）」の証言を詳細に翻訳・構成した記録である。
1. 崩壊した家庭と最初の罠（幼少期〜10歳）
幼少期のクロエは、学校でも人気があり、成績優秀で、活発な社会生活を送る少女だった。幼い頃に両親が離婚し、親権はアルコール依存症の父親に渡った。母親は路上生活者となり、彼女の生活からほとんど姿を消したが、それでも父親のもとでの暮らしは比較的安定しており、安全だと感じていた。
しかし、10歳になる直前に父親が急死したことで、彼女の運命は暗転する。クロエは母親と、その新たな夫である「ペドファイル（小児性愛者）」の男と同居することになった。義父からの性的虐待はすぐに始まり、エスカレートした。母親は義父がクロエを襲っている現場を何度も目撃したが、止めることはしなかった。ある時、母親は義父がクロエと一緒にシャワー室にいるのを見つけたが、介入する代わりに「ただドアを閉めて立ち去った」という。当時、クロエはわずか10歳だった。
義父は口封じのためにクロエに酒やタバコを与え、彼女はさらに大麻を吸うようになった。家庭から逃れるように、クロエは学校を無断欠席し、近くの街の中心部で友人と監視の目のない時間を過ごすようになった。そこで、主にパキスタン人からなる20代から50代以上のムスリムの男たちのグループが彼女たちに目をつける。男たちの多くはタクシー運転手で、少女たちを車に乗せて街中をドライブした。この段階では性的な虐待はなく、小学6年生だったクロエと友人は、大人として扱われることを純粋に楽しんでいた。
2. 巧妙なグルーミングと孤立（11歳）
男たちの「グルーミング（手懐け行為）」はすぐに本格化した。彼らは、クロエが「脆弱で傷つきやすい存在かどうか」を値踏み（マッピング）しながら、食べ物や酒を買い与え、同情的な友人を装って精神的にコントロールしていった。次第にキスやマッサージなどの身体的接触が増えていった。同時に、家での義父からの虐待は悪化し、母親は保護者としての役割を完全に放棄していた。
当時、近くに住む信頼できる存在だった叔父の家に避難した際、叔父からも性的暴行を受ける。これを母親に伝え、警察に通報したものの、警察は「クロエが嘘をついている」と主張し、捜査は行われなかった。信頼できる大人が完全にいなくなったクロエは、街のムスリムのグループにさらに深く依存していくことになる。
11歳の時、友人の提案で別の街のホテルに向かった。薬物やアルコールで泥酔した男に連れて行かれた部屋で、クロエは強力な大麻を吸わされ意識を朦朧とさせられた。友人は別室に連れて行かれ、クロエは残った男に身体を触られた。抵抗したクロエは殴られ、最終的に深夜12時にホテルから追い出され、徒歩での帰宅を余儀なくされた。警察に保護された後、母親は彼女を1か月間「外出禁止」にした。これは、性的捕食者である義父と密室で過ごし続けなければならない「拷問」の期間を意味していた。
3. 最初のレイプと、司法の不条理（2003年／12歳）
外出禁止が明けた後、クロエは友人の新しい恋人である25歳のインド人男とその友人の車に乗せられた。夜、人気の無い場所に連れて行かれ、生理中であることを理由に拒否したにもかかわらず、クロエは車の後部座席でレイプされた。
この事件が発生したのは2003年のことである。19年後の2022年、クロエはこの2人の男を法廷で訴えたが、陪審員は彼らを無罪とした。
この事件を境に、12歳になったクロエの生活は完全に崩壊した。現実を忘れるために大量のアルコール、大麻、そしてエクスタシーなどのより強い薬物を摂取するようになり、学校の出席率は激減した。日中は街の中心部で車に拾われるのを待ち、酒や薬物と引き換えに、何日も行方不明になってはタクシーからタクシーへと回され、薬漬けにされてレイプされる日々が始まった。加害者は一様にムスリムであり、そのほとんどがパキスタン人だった。
ある時、泥酔した男に墓地へと連行され、ウイスキーを強要された後にレイプされた。男は射精前に暴行を止め、空になったウイスキーのボトルをクロエの膣内に突き刺し、中で破裂させた。自力で救急外来（A&E）に駆け込んだクロエに対し、医療スタッフは「なぜこのような怪我をしたのか」という質問を一切せず、ただガラスの破片を取り除いてそのまま退院させた。
4. 警察・学校・福祉の致命的な失敗
警察は、クロエが行方不明になるたびに「車の中で大人の男たちと性行為をしていた」という彼女の証言を得ていた。しかし、捜査を始める代わりに、警察は当時「同意」という言葉の定義すら知らなかった12歳のクロエを「プロスティテュート（売春婦）」とみなし、「本人の自己責任（合意の上での行為）」として処理した。車の中で行方不明の少女たちと一緒にいる加害者を発見しても、警察は男たちを問い詰めることすらせずに釈放した。
学校は、彼女の不登校や素行不良に対し、隔離や放課後の補習授業を義務付けるだけで、彼女が直面している根本的な危機には見て見ぬふりをした。
13歳の時、再び自宅に軟禁されたクロエは、義父からのさらなる暴力を恐れてソーシャルワーカーに虐待を告発した。しかし、義父と母親は逮捕後に容疑を否認し、すぐに釈放された。クロエは里親家庭（フォスターケア）に預けられたが、同じ街にいたため、街に出るたびにムスリムのギャングに待ち伏せされた。通学のために里親が手配したタクシーの運転手は、彼女を学校へ送る代わりに、ギャングたちがたむろする地区へと連れ去り、性的虐待を加えさせた。
クロエが「ムスリムのギャングから性的虐待を受けている」とソーシャルワーカーに告白した時、福祉が取った行動は、介入や捜査ではなく「避妊と性病についての説明」だった。13歳のクロエは、喉と膣のクラミジア、淋病、尖圭コンジローマ、骨盤内炎症性疾患を診断されたが、クリニックもソーシャルワーカーもこれを虐待として警察に通報することはなかった。
5. 全国規模の人身売買への転落（14歳）
14歳になった頃、あるソーシャルワーカーが彼女に近づいた。ようやく救われると思ったクロエに対し、その職員は信じられない言葉を放った。
「テレビドラマの『エマデール（Emmerdale）』で性的搾取の被害者役のオーディションがある。あなたの経験を活かして受けてみないか？」
絶望と怒りに駆られたクロエは里親の家を逃げ出し、そこから6か月間、行方不明となった。この期間、彼女はムスリムギャングによってイギリス全土へ人身売買された。「家から家へ」と引き回され、「次から次へと現れる男たち」に商品としてレイプされた。彼女の行方不明を知らせるテレビニュースを見た加害者たちが「お前、テレビに出ている行方不明の女の子だな」と嘲笑うこともあった。最終的に発見された際も、彼女と一緒に車に乗っていた南アジア系のムスリムの男は、何の罪にも問われずに釈放された。
その後、クロエは児童施設のセキュリティユニット（閉鎖病棟のような施設）に9か月間収容された。そこは刑務所のようで、日常的に全裸での腔内検査（キャビティサーチ）など過酷な監視が行われた。15歳で釈放された後、ようやく素晴らしい里親に出会い、美容関係の専門学校に通うなど、2年間の「最高の平穏」を過ごした。
6. 自宅の占拠、薬物注射、そして組織的拷問（18歳）
しかし、18歳の誕生日を迎え、里親保護の期限が切れて一人暮らしを始めた途端、悪夢が再開した。
かつて一緒に虐待されていた幼馴染と再会したクロエは、彼女が連れてきたグループの訪問を受ける。彼らは全員、クロエの幼少期の虐待に関わっていたムスリムの男たちだった。彼らはクロエの静かな家を「自分たちの家」のように占拠し、ドアや窓を破壊し、彼女を監禁した。ある男は、他のギャングが見守る前で、ソファに横たわるクロエの顔の上に乗り、口内に自分の性器を押し込んでレイプした。
トラウマから再びドラッグに溺れたクロエは、バイト先で尻を触ってきた同僚を殴って解雇され、収入を失った。ギャングは彼女の光熱費などを勝手に支払い、家への支配権を強固にした。彼らはクロエの家に他の幼い子供たちを連れ込み、虐待の場として使用した。また、コミュニティの18歳未満の少年たちに、年上の男たちが命令してクロエをレイプさせることもあった。さらに、炭酸飲料の缶、鍵、野球バットなどの異物を用いた凄惨なレイプが行われた。
やがて、地域で悪名高い人身売買の男が家に出入りするようになり、クロエをバーやクラブに連れ出しては、抵抗できないようにヘロインを注射し、男たちに彼女の身体を売り渡した。クロエは重度の阿片中毒になり、体重はわずか5ストーン（約31.7kg）にまで激減した。
7. 偽装結婚、改宗、スコットランドへの逃亡
その後、薬物リハビリを経て一時的に安定し、新しい恋人と同居したもののトラウマを克服できず破局。再びギャングに捕まり、全国に人身売買された。19歳の時、逃げ込んだ先で自殺を図り、搬送された病院で妊娠が発覚する。
子供の父親となったのは、パキスタン人の不法移民の男だった。男はクロエの家に転がり込み、ビザを取得するため、また妊娠を正当化するために、クロエをイスラム教に改宗させ、強制的に結婚（イスラム法上の結婚）させた。
結婚後のクロエの生活は極限まで統制された。ヒジャブの着用を義務付けられ、外の窓を見ることも禁じられ、男の気に入らない行動をとるたびに「毎日、全身が青あざだらけになるまで」激しい暴行を受けた。
虐待で傷ついた子宮から生まれた子供には腎臓の疾患などの障害があったが、母親になったことでクロエの中に「人生を立て直す」という強い意志が芽生えた。夫が子供に暴行を加えたことを警察に通報して男を排除し、薬物を完全に断ち切った。
ある日、友人に誘われてアジア人男性たちとホテルへ向かうことになった際、クロエは子供のことを考え、罠を察知してその場から一人で離脱した。翌日、友人は男たちにレイプされたと泣き崩れた。これが決定打となり、クロエはこの街を離れる決意を固める。Facebookを通じて、幼少期に唯一自分を傷つけなかった母親の昔の同僚（スコットランド在住）に連絡を取り、女性支援団体「Women's Aid」の協力のもと、手荷物一つと娘を抱えてスコットランドへと脱出した。現在も彼女はそこで暮らしている。
8. 制度的失敗に対する生存者の告発
クロエは、自分が育った地域だけで少なくとも20人以上の少女が、自分と全く同じムスリムのギャング（グルーミング、薬物の強要、人身売買、監禁、レイプ）の被害に遭っていたことを知っている。
彼女は証言の最後にこう語っている。
「地元の警察、福祉、NHS（医療）、そして政府は、何が起きているのか、そしてそれが人種（白人少女を狙ったパキスタン人グループ）に起因する犯罪であるという事実を100%知っていました。
それでも彼らが介入しなかった理由は2つあります。1つは『事務手続き（書類仕事）が面倒だったから』。そしてもう1つは『人種差別主義者（レイシスト）だと思われたくなかったから』です。
彼らが熱狂的に推進した『多様性（ダイバーシティ）』の押し付けのせいで、私の人生は破壊されたのです。」
彼女に虐待を加えた男の数を尋ねられた際、クロエはこう答えている。
「何百人も。何百、何百、何百人もの男たちです。」
クロエは現在、自分の経験が記録として残ることで、1人でも多くの子供たちが自分と同じ地獄に落ちるのを防ぐための活動を続けている。
参照（References）
- 資料名: "The+Rape+Gang+Inquiry+Report.pdf"
- 該当章: VICTIM TESTIMONY - 'CHLOE' (Page 18 - 29)
- 調査主体: The Rape Gang Inquiry (Chaired by Rupert Lowe MP)
原文テキスト'CHLOE' (Page 18 - 29)
Throughout her early childhood, 'Chloe' was popular at school, performed well academically, and enjoyed an active social life. Although her parents separated when she was young, she describes her early upbringing as relatively stable. Following the separation, full custody of Chloe and her older brother was awarded to their father, despite his alcoholism. Her mother, on the other hand, was often absent from her life and became homeless following the separation. Chloe recalls a generally secure and supportive home environment under the care of her father. However, following his sudden death just before her tenth birthday, she moved in with her mother and her mother's new husband - a man she describes as a "paedophile" by whom she was sexually abused. Chloe's mother caught her husband assaulting Chloe on many occasions, but did little to stop it. On one occasion, Chloe's mother caught her husband in the shower with Chloe and instead of intervening, "she closed the door and walked out." At this time, Chloe was ten years old.
The abuse soon escalated to rape. Chloe's stepfather supplied her with alcohol and cigarettes "to keep her quiet," and she began smoking cannabis. Around the same time, Chloe started truanting and spending time in the local town centre with a friend unsupervised. She describes groups of Muslim men, primarily Pakistanis, aged 20 to over 50 showing them attention, including wolf whistling and buying them alcohol. Many were taxi drivers who would take the girls into their cars and drive them around the town. At this stage, there was no sexual abuse, and although the men's behaviour was clearly inappropriate, Chloe and her friend - then in their final year of primary school - enjoyed being treated like adults.
The grooming soon intensified. The provision of alcohol and takeaways was accompanied by emotional manipulation, with the men - many of whom were related to one another - presenting themselves as sympathetic friends to Chloe. Chloe describes this process as them "mapping out, are you a vulnerable person?" Physical contact, including kisses and massages, became increasingly common. Meanwhile, the abuse by her stepfather at home worsened, and her mother was all but absent as a guardian.
At this time, Chloe had an aunt and uncle who lived nearby, and she often sought refuge with them. She had spent holidays with them during her earlier childhood, and felt that she could trust them. On one occasion, she had visited them while truanting, before returning home and spending the day there while her mother and stepfather were at work. To Chloe's surprise, her uncle arrived at her house unannounced an hour later, and she invited him inside. After a brief conversation, Chloe's uncle sexually assaulted her. Chloe resisted, and he relented and left.
She told her mother about the assault, and her mother reported it to the police. The police accused Chloe of lying, and no further action was taken. Until this incident, she had regarded her uncle as "one of the best people in her life" - afterwards, there were no adults left that Chloe could confide in or seek support from. Increasingly isolated, she became more deeply involved with the groups of Muslim men she encountered in the town centre.
One evening, Chloe's friend suggested that they travel to a nearby town where one of the men had a hotel room. They were picked up by the man - who was drunk and under the influence of drugs - and taken to the hotel. When they arrived, hotel staff saw them but did not intervene. In the room, the girls were given a potent strain of cannabis, which left Chloe - then eleven - "absolutely smashed." Chloe's friend was taken into another room by a group of men, and Chloe was groped by the man who remained. Chloe resisted, and he hit her. The man did not attempt to sexually assault her again, and instead threw the girls - both of whom were still intoxicated - out of the hotel and refused to drive them back to their home town. They were forced to walk. It was around midnight. Chloe did not want to go back to her home as she feared her mother would beat her for being out late, so stayed with her friend.
In the early hours of the morning, Chloe was collected from her friend's house by the police after her mother reported her missing. Chloe lied to the police and her mother about where she had been. Chloe's mother "grounded" her for a month, meaning she was stuck at home with her predatory stepfather – a period she describes as "torture."
After the month passed, Chloe arranged to see her friend, who boasted that she had a new boyfriend. Chloe left the house to meet her, and the girls were picked up by the "boyfriend" - who was in fact a 25-year-old Indian man.
Initially, Chloe thought the man was nice - "posher" than the other men she had met in the town centre. He took Chloe and her friend to a shop where he purchased a bottle of vodka before picking up one of his friends and taking the girls to a secluded location. During the journey, the men began pressuring the girls for sex. Chloe refused, stating that she was on her period, but the men replied that it did not matter. Night was falling when they arrived, and the "boyfriend" took Chloe's friend out of the car, leaving Chloe alone with the other man. He proceeded to rape her on the back seats.
This incident took place in 2003. In 2022, Chloe took the two men to court, but neither were found guilty.
From this moment, Chloe's life spiralled. At twelve years old, she began drinking heavily, smoking large amounts of cannabis, and taking harder drugs including ecstasy - "anything to block it out of her mind." She would drink before school "just to get through the day" and her attendance dropped significantly. She and her friend would spend school hours in the town centre, "walking around until somebody picked them up in a car, somebody bought them alcohol or somebody gave them drugs." There were times when Chloe would be missing for up to three days, during which time she was passed between taxis, drugged, abused, and raped. In every case, the perpetrators were Muslims, and primarily Pakistani.
On one occasion, Chloe was abducted by an abuser - who was driving drunk - and taken to a graveyard. He gave Chloe - still twelve years old - whiskey before forcing himself on her and raping her. He withdrew before ejaculation, and forced the empty whiskey bottle into Chloe's vagina, where it shattered. Chloe admitted herself to A&E, but no questions were asked about how she had sustained such an injury. She was examined, the glass was removed, and she was discharged.
Chloe was questioned by police due to her absence on a number of occasions. Each time, she was asked where she had been, who she had been with, and what she had been doing. She replied that she had been having sex with adult males in cars. Rather than opening an investigation and pursuing her abusers, the police dismissed Chloe as a prostitute. They asked her whether she was consenting to the sexual activity and, despite Chloe telling them that she did not know the definition of the word "consent," they reported that she had been.
The police found Chloe, as well as other missing children, in cars with the gang members on multiple occasions, but let the gang members go without so much as questioning them. On one occasion, Chloe was in the town centre and was identified as a missing child by a police officer who questioned where she had been. Chloe told this police officer about the full extent of the abuse, and the response of the police officer was that nothing could be done, and Chloe was let go.
In response to her truancy and deteriorating behaviour, the school regularly placed Chloe in isolation and compelled her to attend additional after-school classes every day. This did little to improve her emotional state, and she continued to spend time with her friend and her friend's "boyfriend."
This went on for a number of years. The "boyfriend" would supply the girls with alcohol and drugs, as well as introducing them to his friends, who were exclusively South Asian men. On one occasion, he took the girls to his place of work - a textiles factory - where he raped Chloe. Following this incident, Chloe stopped spending time with the friend who, up until this point, had accompanied her throughout her exploitation.
By this time, Chloe had become so accustomed to her "lifestyle" of spending time with the Muslim gangs that she continued to do so without her friend. On one occasion, following another late return home, her mother "grounded" her for two months. Fearing further abuse from her stepfather, Chloe walked to a nearby social services office while her mother was at work and reported him. Chloe was interviewed by the social workers about the abuse, after which her mother and stepfather were arrested and questioned. Both denied that the abuse was taking place, and were released without charge.
Chloe made further appeals to social services and was eventually removed from the house and placed in foster care. She lived with a couple who cared for several other foster children and, though she found them "snobby" and judgemental, found some semblance of stability with them - but it did not last long. She was still living in the same town, so when she went into the town centre - as she often did both alone and with the foster carers - the Muslim gangs would recognise and target her. She remained at the same school, and because she now lived further away, the foster carers paid for taxis to take her there. She would ask the taxi drivers to drop her near the school and, rather than attending, would walk to one of the neighbourhoods where the Muslim gangs spent their time. The gangs would take her into their taxis, ply her with drugs and alcohol, and sexually abuse her.
Around the age of 13, Chloe disclosed to social services that she was being sexually abuse by gangs of Muslim men. In response, social services did not intervene, but rather talked to Chloe about contraception and sexual health. One social worker started regularly taking Chloe to a sexual health clinic, where she was diagnosed with chlamydia in her throat and vagina, gonorrhea, genital warts, and pelvic inflammatory disease. Neither the social workers nor the clinic staff questioned or reported this. The police were aware of Chloe's activities, but instead of targeting those responsible for her abuse, they routinely failed to question them - let alone pursue further action - when Chloe was found in cars and houses with them.
Chloe was soon moved to a different foster placement with a far more protective carer. On one occasion, a gang came to the foster home searching for Chloe, and the carer fought them in the street to protect her.
Around the time Chloe turned 14, a social worker approached her about her ongoing sexual exploitation. This was one of the first times this had happened, and Chloe was relieved that her abuse was finally being addressed. However, rather than offering a solution, the social worker instead told Chloe that the producers of Emmerdale were looking for a young actress to play a victim of child sexual exploitation, and asked whether she would be interested in auditing for the role given her experience. Following this exchange, Chloe - upset, angry, and in a state of disbelief - ran away from the foster home, and, after being abducted by a Muslim gang, was missing for six months.
Over this period she was trafficked across the length and breadth of Britain. She was taken to "house after house" and raped and abused by "guy after guy after guy after guy." The men who abused her paid money to the gang, which treated her as little more than a commodity. She was reported missing and her photograph was shown on TV. Her abusers remarked on this - "you're that girl off the TV that's missing" - but her whereabouts were never reported to the police. Chloe describes a cycle of grooming, rape, and drug and alcohol abuse - this went on until, eventually, she was located by the police.
When the police found her, she was in a car with a South Asian Muslim man. The man was let go without charge, and she was returned to her mother's house. Chloe's relationship with her mother had completely broken down by this point, so she continued to run away and her psychological state deteriorated further. Following another period of grooming and sexual exploitation by a Muslim gang, Chloe was taken into police custody and transported to a secure unit at a children's home.
She describes the home as being like a prison. Every aspect of her life was controlled and surveilled, and she was routinely subjected to bodily examinations, including full cavity searches. Chloe found the experience highly traumatic. She remained there for 9 months, by which time she was almost 15. Social services determined that she was well enough to be released, and she was placed in foster care not far from where she had been living before. Chloe describes the new carers as a positive and encouraging presence in her life, and - in spite of her proximity to the sites of her abuse and exploitation - Chloe found stability and security living with them. She enrolled in a full-time hairdressing and beauty course at a nearby college, and for the next two years, Chloe describes her life as "fantastic."
As Chloe approached her 18th birthday, social services notified her that the foster care would soon end. They identified a house for her and, after parting ways with her carer, she moved in and got a retail job to support herself. Despite having little experience taking care of herself, Chloe's life remained generally stable through this period.
Eventually, Chloe reestablished contact with the friend whom she had been abused with as a young child. She invited her over to her house, and when she arrived, she was accompanied by a group of Muslim men - all of whom remembered Chloe from past abuse.
Immediately, Chloe's life was thrown back into chaos. The men refused to leave, and - in Chloe's words - "it was no longer my quiet little house. It was their house." They smashed windows, kicked in doors, left the house an "absolute wreck," and sexually abused Chloe. One of the men - a previous abuser - pinned her down, pulled his trousers down, and "sat on her face," orally raping her on her own sofa as the rest of the gang watched.
Chloe returned to drugs and alcohol to cope. Though she was still working in retail, her ability to work was rapidly declining. During one shift, one of her colleagues - someone she was friends with - jokingly pinched her bottom. Chloe, traumatised by the years of abuse, punched him in the face in the middle of the shop. She was brought before management and tried to argue her case, but was fired. Left with no income, Chloe spiralled further. The Muslim gang was still occupying her house, and, with nowhere else to go and no ability to remove them, she remained there with them. They routinely drugged, abused, and raped her, including with objects including soft drink cans, keys, and a baseball bat.
Before long they started to pay her bills to consolidate their presence in her home. On a number of occasions, they brought young children into Chloe's house to abuse them. Chloe recalls a number of occasions when boys under the age of 18 from the Muslim community were pressured and bullied by their older friends and relatives into raping her. Chloe was forced to commit crimes, including insurance fraud and the holding of drugs. On one occasion she contacted the police to report an assault that was taking place in her house and, when they arrived, Chloe was threatened with arrest rather than the gang members as the property was registered in her name.
One evening, an associate of the gang from a neighbouring town arrived at the house. A notorious sex trafficker, he soon began taking Chloe to bars and nightclubs in the surrounding area. There, he would spike her with heroin before handing her over to men who sexually assaulted and raped her.
Chloe became addicted to opiates and her health deteriorated rapidly. She became anorexic, weighing just five stone at the age of 18. The use of heroin was a method of control by the gang, as it left her with no ability to defend herself physically. Her daily existence became a relentless cycle of rape, exploitation, and violence.
Eventually, a social worker visited Chloe and was shocked by both her appearance and the conditions in which she was living. Concerned for her welfare, she took Chloe to an addiction clinic, where tests revealed an extremely high concentration of opiates in her system. Chloe was prescribed medication to manage her opioid dependency and gradually weaned herself off the drugs.
Around this time, Chloe reconnected with a childhood friend, and their friendship soon developed into a romantic relationship. Her boyfriend became aware of the ongoing abuse and, with the help of his father, paid off Chloe's remaining rent and moved her out of her squalid house. Chloe moved in with him, after which she got another job in retail. For a short period, Chloe's life was relatively stable - but, due to her unresolved trauma, she soon returned to drinking heavily, smoking cannabis, and gambling.
Her workplace was close to her first foster home, and before long she came back into contact with members of the gang that had abused her at that time. The cycle of grooming, exploitation, and abuse soon resumed. Her relationship with her boyfriend broke down, and, out of desperation, she re-established contact with her mother – who had left her predatory husband - and soon moved back in with her.
One night, Chloe was out with members of the gang and drinking heavily. Upon her return to her mother's house, her mother reported her to the police. The police arrested Chloe while she was changing into her pyjamas, and she was taken to the police station drunk and half-naked. She was kept in a cell until two am the following morning, at which point she was released. They did not provide her with any clothes or transportation back to her mother's house. She tried to contact her ex-boyfriend, but he did not respond. Chloe, then 19, was left stranded.
She wandered around the neighbourhood for several hours before encountering a gang member who had previously abused her. Cold and desperate, she got into his car, and, for the following weeks, was trafficked across the country.
Eventually, Chloe identified a new house to move into. Despite their dysfunctional relationship, her mother agreed to sign the rental agreement as Chloe's guarantor, as Chloe - then without income - knew she would not be able to afford the rent. After she moved in, she became aware of the fact that she was the only White British person in her neighbourhood. Every other resident was South Asian. As a result, the gangs discovered where she was living, and once again treated her house as if it was their own. The cycle of abuse continued, and Chloe's emotional state deteriorated significantly. Chloe was taken to hospital after a suicide attempt, and, while there, she discovered that she was pregnant.
The father of the child - a Pakistani Muslim illegal migrant - moved into Chloe's home. Chloe was subsequently coerced into converting to Islam and forced into marriage, both to legitimise the pregnancy in the eyes of her abuser and to assist him in securing a visa. Chloe's behaviour became tightly controlled. She was forced to wear a hijab, she was prohibited from looking out the windows of her home, and, if she misbehaved in the eyes of her "husband," he would "beat her black and blue" - something that happened "every day."
Chloe's child was born with multiple health problems, including a defective kidney, due to the deteriorated condition of Chloe's womb as a result of the sexual abuse. Nevertheless, becoming a mother gave Chloe a renewed determination to get her life back on track. She reported the father of her child to the police after he assaulted the child, and he was removed from the property. She stopped taking drugs. She was "focused," and, for the first time, the gangs left her alone.
One evening, she went out with a friend who lived across the road. Chloe, now a mother, did not drink heavily, but her friend became heavily intoxicated. A group of Asian men started speaking to them, and offered to take Chloe and her friend home. Chloe was suspicious of them, but, for the sake of her friend, agreed. Instead of taking them home, however, they were taken to a hotel. Chloe, who was not drunk, protested, and encouraged her friend - who was "paralytic" - to leave with her. Chloe warned her friend about what she suspected was going to happen, but her friend refused to leave. Chloe, thinking of her daughter and seeking to protect herself, reluctantly left without her. The following day, Chloe's friend told Chloe that she had been raped by the men.
This incident represented a turning point in Chloe's life. She decided that she needed to leave her home town for good and "get as far away from these Asian men as possible." By chance, she reconnected on Facebook with a man she had known in her early childhood – an old colleague of her mother who she describes as "one of the only adult men in my life who never harmed me or treated me badly." She told him about everything she had been through and her desire to leave. He lived in Scotland and she was invited to visit him for the weekend, which she did.
After returning home, she sought support from Women's Aid, who managed to secure her a property in Scotland. With nothing but her daughter and a small bag, she left her home town, leaving a lifetime of abuse and exploitation behind, and moved to Scotland, where she resides to this day.
Chloe personally knows at least twenty other girls from her area who were predated on by the Muslim gangs who abused her. The pattern was always the same: grooming, drugging, trafficking, abuse, and rape. Furthermore, Chloe describes being taken into mosques where imams would describe non-Muslims as "infidels" and preach that white women who dressed "inappropriately" were "free game."
Chloe believes that the local police, social services, NHS, and government were all fully aware of what was happening, including the racialised nature of the crimes, but that they did not intervene for two reasons: because they "could not be bothered with the paperwork," and because "they did not want to be seen as racist." Chloe blames these bodies, and their "major push for diversity," for her abuse.
Chloe says that "if I can save just even one more child, girl or boy, from going through any of this, then I've done my job."
Inquiry panellist:
"Do you know how many men abused you over that period if you had to guess?"
Chloe:
"Hundreds. Hundreds and hundreds and hundreds."
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