The Sky News detective constable is phoning. “Lucy” claims that mistakes might have permitted the aggravating circumstances that “professionals have called some of the worst abuse they’ve ever seen” in Greater Manchester to continue.
“I don’t feel like we’re making things better for these kids,” she wrote in her resignation letter from the previous year. Indeed, I believe we’re making things worse.”
Additionally, she claimed that working with the victims only “left them hanging” and “re-traumatized them.”
In 2022, a detective constable named “Lucy” was assigned to a major investigation into child sex offenders in Manchester. She claims that had certain things not gone right, the abuse that “professionals have called some of the worst abuse they’ve ever seen” might have continued.
When she took up the investigation and discovered there had been two prior complaints, dating back to 2018, involving the same suspects and other children, she realized something was wrong. one in which the legal matter was resolved.
She stated to Sky News: “A lot of the professional material such as children’s records, medical records and school records had not been requested, had not been read because if they had, they would say that many of the children had reported multiple disclosures of sexual abuse, physical abuse, neglect and psychological torture.”
A new case was opened in 2018. Lucy says she was handling multiple caseloads and was not given the time or resources to do the job, even though she realized she was leading a complex investigation involving very young victims, whose trust she needed to earn.
“I wanted to visit them on a regular basis, but the time just wasn’t made available to me,” she stated. Therefore, you would go talk to them, bring up everything again, traumatize them again, and then abandon them.
“The DCI and I had a Teams meeting. All these promises that he’s making to me. “I’ll procure the necessary materials.” It simply did not occur.”
