""I was covered in very deep cigarette burns, which actually burned through my skin into my flesh. By the time I was 13 and a half, I weighed six stone. I was abused every day.""
""They were selling me and other girls for sex to men who were coming from all over the country, to different houses, different places and to different strangers. You would be given drugs and alcohol so you were so out of your head you didn't know what day it was.""
""There are lots and lots of men who were involved with us who have never been brought to justice. I imagine that if they had those sexual tendencies then, they'll still have those tendencies now and they'll find a way to fulfil those tendencies.""
Penny, a victim of grooming, was abused from age 12 by men who initially won her affection with gifts. She suffered severe physical abuse and was sold for sex. Despite some convictions, many perpetrators remain free. The independent inquiry into grooming gangs aims to investigate the scale of abuse, the operation of these gangs, police knowledge and actions, and cultural factors that led to victim discrediting. The inquiry will cover cases from the last 30 years to identify patterns of abuse.
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