Sammy Woodhouse waived her anonymity to call for rapists to have no access to children conceived through their crimes

A rape victim at the centre of a care scandal demanded a shake-up of the law last night after revealing that Rotherham council had invited her jailed abuser to seek access to her son.

Arshid Hussain, a serial rapist and the ringleader of a child-grooming gang, had no parental responsibility for the child but social workers contacted him in prison to give him the chance to stake a claim in the boy’s future.

The boy’s mother, Sammy Woodhouse, waived her anonymity by posting videos on social media yesterday. She called for new rules to “ensure that no rapist will ever be able to access a child conceived through rape or abuse”. Within hours, her Twitter posting had been viewed more than 400,000 times.

Mother speaks out after jailed sex offender told he could apply for rights

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