Val Candee

The victim testimony of 'Felicity' from the Rape Gang Inquiry is the most horrifying thing I’ve read in my life. She was 8 years old when it started… > First assaulted just after her 8th birthday, lured into a back room on the pretext of helping put up a shelf >Told she'd be "taken away" if she ever spoke, which was the start of years of rape and torture >Trafficked on to groups of older Muslim men, collected by taxi after school and on church nights >Forced to take part in the abuse of other children, used deliberately to "normalise" it and buy her silence >Groomed with a fake love story: told a man "adored" her, that marrying him was "God's plan," and that she had to convert to Islam >Handed a book on Islam by one of her abusers and told to learn it Then came the captivity: >Held in houses with an upstairs "punishment room" fitted with dog-crate enclosures >Watched a girl accused of going to police have a hot iron pressed into her back. That girl later died. Felicity saw her strangled >She and another girl, "Char," were both impregnated. Every pregnancy ended in miscarriage >Later told the men had killed Char and she would "never come back" >Saw a girl shot in front of her by a man she believed was a serving police officer >Threatened that she'd be "chopped up and fed to pigs" if she ever told It only escalated: >Loaded into a van in a crate with other girls, some trafficked in from abroad to be "sold," who spoke no English >Made to watch a girl be stabbed, beaten and set on fire for talking back to a buyer >Hung upside down by her feet, whipped and urinated on by a man who openly idolised Fred West >”Purchased" for a night and raped by numerous men while her main abuser sat and watched >Forced to witness a baby tortured with cigarettes and then killed, while its mother was made to watch And through all of it, no one believed her... >For years she was disbelieved and dismissed, she says, treated as though she was inventing what was being done to her >She had carried it almost entirely alone. Her statement to the Inquiry was the first time in her life she had ever been able to give a full account of what happened to her. No one before had ever properly listened >When she finally found the courage to report one of her abusers as an adult, at 27, she was not believed ...you don't understand SO SO SO many people need to be executed for this.

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It’s regrettable that the president has directed Jay Clayton not to appear at his confirmation hearing today. Mr. Clayton is a patriot and a highly qualified nominee, as the president has said repeatedly. While today’s hearing is now unfortunately postponed, I look forward to proceeding with his confirmation in the near future.