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Chloe was drugged with ketamine, zipped into a suitcase, and driven to a farmhouse where two men listed her body for sale on the dark web. The auction price was €300,000. The buyer was supposed to be somewhere in the Middle East. She was 20 years old. She had a baby waiting for her in London. Nobody knew where she was. No one was coming. She spent six days in that farmhouse - handcuffed, drugged, told she'd be sold like cargo. She survived by doing the only thing she could: she made her kidnapper fall in love with her. Slept in his bed. Told him she could be his girlfriend. Played the role until he believed it enough to drive her to freedom. And when she finally got out - the entire world called her a liar. She's a model from London. At 20 she was already working internationally - agencies, photoshoots, the usual. A new booking came in: a photographer in Milan. Seemed normal. She flew to Italy on July 11, 2017. The location was an old warehouse on the outskirts of the city. No crew. No lights. No photographer. Just two men in balaclavas waiting for her. They grabbed her. Injected her with ketamine. Stuffed her unconscious body into a large travel bag. Zipped it shut. Drove her to a remote farmhouse in the countryside. When she woke up - handcuffed, drugged, alone - they told her who they were. "Black Death." A criminal organization that kidnaps women and sells them on the dark web. She was listed for auction. Starting price: €300,000. Buyer: somewhere in the Middle East. Her agent received an email from someone called "MD." It said: pay the ransom or she gets sold. No negotiation. The kidnapper was Lukasz Herba. A Polish man living in England. He and his brother Michal had planned it for months. The fake photographer. The fake agency emails. Everything. For six days Chloe was trapped. She couldn't run. She couldn't call anyone. Her baby was in London. Nobody knew where she was. So she did something desperate. She noticed Lukasz was becoming attached to her. She played into it. She agreed to share a bed with him. She told him maybe one day she could be his girlfriend. She made him believe she had feelings for him. It worked. He drove her to the British consulate in Milan and let her go. When the story broke - the world didn't believe her. "She went shopping with him." "She was holding his hand." "She smiled in interviews." "She wore revealing clothes at press conferences." People called it a publicity stunt. Piers Morgan tore into her on live TV. The kidnappers' lawyers said she faked the whole thing for fame. She was never praised for getting out alive. She was interrogated for how she acted while being held captive. Lukasz Herba was convicted. Sentenced to 16 years. Reduced to 11 on appeal. His brother got 16 years too. The convictions didn't stop the hate. People still called her a liar. Years later she was diagnosed with autism - which explained why her reactions didn't look "normal" to people watching from the outside. She said: "I was never praised for my bravery. I always had to defend myself." She was 20. She had a baby. She was drugged, stuffed in a bag, and listed for sale like cargo. She manipulated her kidnapper into letting her live. And the punishment for surviving was being called a liar by millions of strangers. When a woman escapes a kidnapping by outsmarting her captor - and the world punishes her for not crying the right way on camera - who exactly failed her?

There's been convictions for historic crimes committed by grooming gang rapists, why are you pretending there wasn't

Fiona Goddard was 16 when police returned her to the Pakistani-heritage grooming gang that raped her. Fiona Goddard was 16 in 2010 when West Yorkshire Police officers removed her from a Bradford property where seven men of Pakistani heritage had abused her. Officers knew she was logged as an under-age child sexual exploitation victim, yet returned her to the house. One said: “She says she’s over-age — enjoy your night, lads.” Daily Dazzling Dawn understands the remark, drawn from Goddard’s survivor testimony, has become a defining example of institutional failure in Britain’s grooming gang scandal. Goddard had run away from a children’s home in Bradford in 2008 at 14. What began with a request for a lighter became sustained grooming, rape and trafficking across Blackburn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Oldham. By the time officers found her in the Bradford property, she had been abused by at least 50 men, according to her account. Inside, some men were half-dressed and the lounge was strewn with empty bottles and drug paraphernalia. In the police car, intoxicated and disoriented, she mistakenly said she was 18. Officers had already checked the database and knew she was a child sexual exploitation victim. They drove her back regardless. By 15 she was pregnant by one of her rapists. She gave birth days after her 16th birthday and her daughter was taken for adoption. The abuse continued for another two years. Goddard has said police repeatedly blamed her, calling her a “child prostitute” and accusing her of running a brothel by 17. Analysis by anonymous researchers behind The Network Map indicates at least 60 police officers were implicated in grooming gang activity, either through active involvement or by ignoring sex crimes. The database draws on criminal trial transcripts, police and local authority records, survivor testimonies and media reports. It identifies more than 1,000 perpetrators and more than 3,000 connections between them. The project follows a review by Baroness Louise Casey, which found that Asian and Pakistani-heritage men were disproportionately represented among grooming gang perpetrators and criticised agencies for failing to record ethnicity properly. Casey also said local authorities had avoided acting over fears of being labelled racist. Nine men were convicted of 22 offences against Goddard and sentenced at Bradford Crown Court in February 2019 to a combined 132 years. Basharat Khaliq received 20 years. Saeed Akhtar was jailed for 20 years. Naveed Akhtar, Parvaze Ahmed and Mohammed Usman each received 17 years. Izar Hussain was sentenced to 16 years; Kieran Harris to 17 years; Fahim Iqbal to seven years; and Zeeshan Ali to 18 months. Goddard waived her lifelong anonymity, saying: “I didn’t do anything wrong.” Daily Dazzling Dawn learned that Goddard had repeatedly reported the case to police over five years before prosecution. She has said officers described her as streetwise, downgraded her missing-person reports and failed to treat her as a child in danger. Her case now sits at the centre of two unresolved questions: how many officers failed vulnerable girls, and what accountability remains when the perpetrators have been convicted but the institutions that enabled them remain largely unreformed. Should the officers who returned a known child sexual exploitation victim to her abusers face misconduct proceedings, or does the 2019 prosecution of nine men close the accountability question? Follow Daily Dazzling Dawn for verified news updates and in-depth analysis. #DailyDazzlingDawn #FionaGoddard #GroomingGangs #Bradford #ChildProtection

It looks like you're doing a good job keeping statistics of what is happening in court to these Pakistani groomers.