Weeks earlier, a balaclava-clad man was captured on CCTV delivering a menacing letter to Marlon’s house calling Scarlett a s**g. Marlon, a psychiatric nurse, claims police and social work did little to protect his daughter - branding him a menace because he repeatedly reported her missing.
Today, her dad Marlon tells how Scarlett was trafficked to Rochdale just over two years ago - proof that the gangs continue to hold an iron grip over the northern town at the heart of the scandal.
Marlon says Scarlett, who went to a private prep school and rode her horse Jasper straight after lessons each day, started staying out late at night.
Not one of Scarlett’s groomers has ever been prosecuted.
Scarlett, 20, who is too traumatised to talk to us herself but is happy for her dad to tell the story, today lives in fear of her attackers and is trying desperately to claw back the childhood stolen from her by sitting GSCEs she never got to take.
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