Just A Child

Britain's Biggest Child Abuse Scandal Exposed

Sammy Woodhouse

• Publisher: Blink Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Topic: Social Sciences
• eBook ISBN:
  9781788700085
• Subtopic: Social Science Biographies
• Index: Social Sciences

Sammy Woodhouse was just 14 when she met Arshid Hussain. Ten years older, he promised to take care of her. Sammy thought she was in love, but in reality she was being groomed by a ringleader of Britain's most notorious child sex ring.

Just A Child tells the heartbreaking story of how a young girl from Rotherham was abused by her drug-dealing 'boyfriend', eventually giving birth to his baby, right under the nose of the very authorities who were meant to protect her. When reality dawned and Sammy realised she was one of countless vulnerable child victims - many of whom were trafficked around the north of England - she took it upon herself to blow the whistle and save others from a similar fate.

Thanks to Sammy's bravery, the gang was fully exposed, as well as the authorities that did little to help her. Her shocking account of how these events came to pass will enrage and sadden but, above all, it will offer hope and show why this must never happen again.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Prologue
• Chapter 1: ‘I told you that you were beautiful!’
• Chapter 2: ‘I’m going to be a famous dancer one day’
• Chapter 3: ‘We’ll see who’s around, see what happens’
• Chapter 4: ‘You all right, love? D’you want a lift?’
• Chapter 5: ‘If he asks how old you are, say you’re sixteen’
• Chapter 6: ‘Come and meet some of my friends’
• Chapter 7: ‘Where the hell have you been?’
• Chapter 8: ‘You need to take her home right now’
• Chapter 9: ‘I’ll wait until you’re ready. I love you’
• Chapter 10: ‘Keep your noses out of my business!’
• Chapter 11: ‘No one will find out, trust me’
• Chapter 12: ‘The police have got to listen now!’
• Chapter 13: ‘I don’t know what I’d do without you’
• Chapter 14: ‘I’m only like this because I love you so much’
• Chapter 15: ‘He’s dangerous. He’s going to ruin your life’
• Chapter 16: ‘It’s me and you against the world’
• Chapter 17: ‘I’m gonna teach you everything I know’
• Chapter 18: ‘Thank God Ash has friends in the police’
• Chapter 19: ‘I can’t stay here forever, can I?’
• Chapter 20: ‘If you want to see her, you do it by my rules’
• Chapter 21: ‘Who else have you brought here?’
• Chapter 22: ‘I thought you’d like it, or I wouldn’t have done it’
• Chapter 23: ‘You’re too young. You’re just a babby’
• Chapter 24: ‘If I can’t have you, nobody can’
• Chapter 25: ‘You need to start to trust me’
• Chapter 26: ‘You’re scaring me’
• Chapter 27: ‘If I can’t see you, then I won’t see him’
• Chapter 28: ‘What are you playing at, Sam?’
• Chapter 29: ‘Don’t you remember all the bad stuff?’
• Chapter 30: ‘We’re getting help. It’ll be all right’
• Chapter 31: ‘Sammy, I think you’d better sit down’
• Chapter 32: ‘Come on, we’re leaving’
• Chapter 33: ‘It didn’t happen to me’
• Chapter 34: ‘How old did you say they were?’
• Chapter 35: ‘Opinions have changed now’
• Chapter 36: ‘If this doesn’t expose it, then nothing will’
• Chapter 37: ‘I’ll support you on everything’
• Chapter 38: ‘Don’t worry, I am not a serial killer!’
• Chapter 39: ‘He was an adult and I was a child’
• Chapter 40: ‘My life starts now’
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Images