Rotherham sex abuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse (pictured) has claimed men are sending her abusive messages and threatening to harm her children

Rotherham sex abuse survivor Sammy Woodhouse has claimed someone is sending her abusive messages and threatening to harm her children.

The mother-of-two was groomed by child sex gang leader Arshid Hussain in South Yorkshire from the age of 14.

She was subjected to unthinkable sex abuse but waived her right to anonymity as a rape victim in 2017 to expose the grooming gang.

The 34-year-old has been pushing for a change in the law after Rotherham Council tried to give Arshid access to her son, who he fathered when he raped her.

But she now faces further suffering after a 'local gangster' messaged her now 18-year-old son in a bid to get money out of the family.

Ms Woodhouse told MailOnline in a statement: 'One of my sons has been sent a number of threatening messages via Facebook Messenger.

'The individual responsible for sending them is attempting to extort money from us by threatening my son.'

She tweeted today: 'Sick and tired of 'men' sending messages to my kids threatening to harm us all and if we don't meet there demands they're coming to my home to harm my kids, smash windows and steal my car cause they think they're little gangsters and we're an easy target. Nothing but cowards!!'

South Yorkshire Police have been contacted for further comment.

The mother-of-two now claims she is 'sick and tired of men sending messages to my kids threatening to harm us all'

The 34-year-old has been pushing for a change in the law after Rotherham Council tried to give Arshid access to her son (pictured), who he fathered when he raped her

Hussain, 43, the ringleader of the grooming gang, was not named on Ms Woodhouse's son's birth certificate and had no parental responsibility for the child, who was born after his mother was raped, aged just 15.

Hussain is now in a wheelchair after surviving a shooting.

He is serving 35 years in prison for multiple rape offences against nine victims – some as young as 11 – but was contacted last year by officials from Rotherham Council, who said he had a right to see the child.

Other survivors of the grooming gang branded the South Yorkshire Council's actions 'disgusting'.

More than 120 MPs have now called for an urgent inquiry into the way the family courts in England and Wales treat victims of domestic abuse or rape and their children.

Arshid Hussain (pictured) was eventually jailed for 35 years

Sammy Woodhouse grew up in Rotherham and was groomed by child sex gang leader Hussain when she was 14 years old.

She was subjected to horrendous abuse including rape and assaults and Hussain also coerced her by threatening to kill her family.

He also forced her to rob a post office aged 15 and when police raided Hussain's home later that year they found her in bed with him but failed to arrest him and charged her with possessing a baton.

After years of abuse she approached The Times anonymously with her claims, leading to the Jay Inquiry which exposed the Rotherham gang and led to the discovery of more than 1,400 victims between 1997 and 2013. Hussain was eventually jailed for 35 years.

Ms Woodhouse waived her anonymity on the BBC in 2017.

She has been leading campaigns to change the laws around child sex abuse victims, particularly supporting a bill named after her, Sammy's Law, that would pardon child sex abuse victims who are coerced into committing crimes.