A survivor of one of Oldham's depraved grooming gangs has opened up for the very first time on the abuse she suffered to GB News.
Jade - not her real name - says 85 men were involved in her abuse and exploitation in the space of just three years.
She can remember every name and every face. But they're easy to remember. None of them have faced justice, and many of them still walk the same streets as her.
Throughout those three years, she was in and out of children’s care homes across the North West, but the vast majority of her abuse and exploitation occurred in Oldham.
Meeting at her father's house, she explained to The People's Channel how she was targeted as a young teenager. In the typical grooming method, she was made to think that she was appreciated by the men - who came from the town's South Asian community - before they turned violent and started sexually abusing her.
At first, she was treated like an adult - like she was one of them - and was given drink and drugs.
'Jade' has opened up for the very first time on the abuse she suffered to GB News
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But Jade described how aged just 14, she was dangled off balconies, abandoned in the moors, and tied up and bundled into cars - all to facilitate the depravity of gang rapists.
Did she try to get help from the authorities? "Yeah," she said, but "they just didn't believe none of us."
Some of the men were married and had families. Families that Jade says she met.
"One of them asked: 'How come my daddy brings young girls back?' She was only two years younger than me. I would just tell them I was a girl working at their restaurant," Jade revealed.
And even now, 20 years on from the start of her abuse, she says that she still encounters these men around the North West.
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Jade described how aged just 14, she was dangled off balconies, abandoned in the moors, and tied up and bundled into cars
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"They put their head down, but some of them are like: 'Hey, are you alright?'"
Jade's story resembles many of those heard from Oldham - but what makes her recollection unique is the voice of her father, John - also not his real name - who told GB News about his attempts to rescue his daughter from the abuse gangs.
When she first started being taken from the children's homes, John would head out with a group of friends to search for her.
"At first, for the first couple of nights, it was like five or six hours. But I'd come out around about 7pm at night... I was just anxious all the time. You start looking up every street."
John described how some Pakistani locals helped direct him to the people who were involved in the grooming gang abuse, but he and his friends always struggled to find Jade.
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Driving around the dark streets of the town, John took GB News' National Reporter Charlie Peters and a cameraman back along the route he would drive when hunting for Jade and her abusers.
He said he had not made the journey since that time.
As we entered an area which was notorious for child sexual exploitation, John told GB News that his heart started beating faster. "It's like deja vu," he said.
John had been speaking in his home for several hours earlier in the day - and had recounted all of the experiences he'd had trying to rescue Jade from the gangs - but suddenly, he was silent.
Some 20 years ago, while looking for her with his friends, John said they noticed a girl in the window of a derelict home. "A friend of mine turned around and said there's somebody at that window."
Some 20 years ago, while looking for her with his friends, John said they noticed a girl in the window of a derelict home
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He said his friend had recognised a glimpse of a girl who had the same colour hair as Jade. The pair then stormed the building, John said - finding four South Asian males in its front room.
"I was then shouting my daughter's name going up the stairs, hoping that it was my daughter. I could see somebody in the bedroom. I told her that no one's going to hurt her. I realised it wasn't my daughter."
He said that he managed to get the girl's father's phone number from her and she was then collected.
John became visibly emotional as he brought back these memories. He'd been a hero to somebody else’s daughter, but it wasn't enough.
"It doesn't count... I know it should, but it doesn't when it's your daughter who's still out there and you don't know what happened to her."
GB News has seen several missing persons police reports relating to Jade during the period of John's desperate searches around Oldham. He had many, many nights just like that one.
And Jade is convinced that the men who exploited her will never face justice.
"I'm pretty sure that these have got away with it for life. This is never gonna end," she said.
Jade and John approached GB News to share their stories for the first time after coverage of the group-based child abuse crisis made headlines at the start of 2025.
After the People's Channel's coverage was picked up by X owner and tech billionaire Elon Musk, the Conservatives and Reform UK called for a national public inquiry into the grooming gangs crisis via an amendment to Labour's Schools Bill.
This was rejected in Parliament, with most Labour MPs voting against the amendment.
The Government has since announced five new local inquiries - including one in Oldham, where the Government had recently rejected a council request for a public inquiry into the scandal.
Tom Crowther KC, who chaired the inquiry into abuse gangs in Telford, is set to head up the review in Oldham.
Most Labour MPs voted against an amendment to the party's Schools Bill to hold a national public inquiry into the grooming gangs crisis
HOUSE OF COMMONSAn Oldham Council spokesman said: "Tom is hugely respected by survivors, given the excellent work he did in Telford, and his appointment reflects the views of the survivors. We believe this is an important step in securing justice for our survivors and Oldham residents more generally.
"We've said from the outset that we will put survivors at the heart of any work we do around child sexual exploitation. Having been repeatedly let down by public bodies over the years, that is the least they expect and deserve.
"Oldham Council hopes the news of Tom's appointment gives real confidence that everyone at the council is determined to ensure that survivors' voices are heard."
The location of the other four reviews remains unclear.
The Government has also said that Baroness Louise Casey would conduct a national audit into group-based child sex abuse, which has now started.
But Labour's rejection of a national inquiry was still an issue for John, he said.
"I think if people knew what was going on on their doorstep and they could actually see it, it would turn your stomach. The council turned a blind eye to it. The police turned a blind eye to it," he told GB News.
"I want them to be questioned by a judge. If anybody's turned around and turned a blind eye to it, I want them to be prosecuted. I want justice for my daughter.
"I want it stopped dead, and I want the people who are responsible to stand in court - and if they have to serve time, it will serve them right. Perhaps they'll realise that their life can be ruined like mine has, because I've got nothing left. They took everything from me. Took my daughter. Can't take more than that."
A Home Office spokesman said: "This Government is committed to doing everything it can to tackle the horrific crime of child sexual abuse. This includes working closely with local areas to confront these crimes head-on, ensure perpetrators face the full force of the law, and provide vital support to victims and survivors.
"As the Home Secretary announced in January, £5million is being made available through a new fund to help strengthen local response to child sexual exploitation. This funding will help support local authorities that want to undertake work targeted at specific local needs, underpinned by a new local inquiries framework."
Greater Manchester Police Assistant Chief Constable Steph Parker said: “We again wholeheartedly apologise to all victims of child sexual exploitation who we badly let down for the hurt and ongoing trauma caused by what happened. We have accepted that our actions fell far short of the service that they had every right to expect from us.
“Child protection is the priority for the GMP of today. Our approach to protecting victims and pursuing perpetrators is significantly improved to that of two decades ago, with His Majesty’s Inspectorate of Constabulary recently finding us to be good or adequate in all areas of protecting children across GM.
“We have a number of ongoing victim-focussed investigations by our specialist unit investigating non-recent CSE, which has almost 100 investigators working at a pace survivors are comfortable with when the time is right for them. This includes Operation Green Jacket which this month secured its first convictions for non-recent CSE in Manchester.
“We are wholly focussed on working with partners to listen to survivors of non-recent child sexual exploitation and ensure that they are believed. We are determined to bring offenders to justice for their crimes, no matter how long ago they were committed – time is no barrier to justice.”
