{"id":277036,"date":"2025-09-10T21:05:28","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fionas-story-why-did-nobody-stop-bradford-grooming-gang-abusing-girl-in-childrens-home\/"},"modified":"2025-09-10T21:05:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T20:05:28","slug":"fionas-story-why-did-nobody-stop-bradford-grooming-gang-abusing-girl-in-childrens-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/fionas-story-why-did-nobody-stop-bradford-grooming-gang-abusing-girl-in-childrens-home\/","title":{"rendered":"Fiona&#8217;s story: Why did nobody stop Bradford grooming gang abusing girl in children&#8217;s home?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/T2QmDv9DpNI\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Fiona's story: Why did nobody stop Bradford grooming gang abusing girl in children's home?\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/T2QmDv9DpNI\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>The manager of a children&#8217;s home told a member of staff not to go to police about the abuse of a vulnerable teenager &#8211; unless she was seen being dragged into a car.<\/p>\n<p>Fiona Goddard was groomed and repeatedly raped &#8211; she says by more than 50 men &#8211; during her time in three children\u2019s homes in Bradford during the late 2000s. She became pregnant at 15.<\/p>\n<p>Supervision records from one home seen by ITV News show that authorities knew Ms Goddard was &quot;at a high level of risk from unknown males&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>They note &quot;concerns re Fiona Goddard being collected early [hours] of morning by unknown cars&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>But documents also show the home&#8217;s policy was &quot;not to report to police unless change in individual behaviour is a concern, or staff witness incident of concern re Fiona being dragged into a car&quot;.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, the agreed action was only to record the registration numbers of cars picking her up.<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Subscribe to ITV News on YouTube: http:\/\/bit.ly\/2lOHmNj<br \/>\n\u2022 Get breaking news and more stories at http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news<\/p>\n<p>Follow ITV News on TikTok https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@itvnews?lang=en<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Instagram: https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on Facebook: https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/itvnews\/<br \/>\nFollow ITV News on X: https:\/\/twitter.com\/itvnews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The manager of a children&#8217;s home told a member of staff not to go to police about the abuse of a vulnerable teenager &#8211; unless she was seen being dragged into a car. 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