Cassie Pike has come forward with her harrowing abuse (File picture: Getty)

A grooming victim who was raped by more than 100 men has revealed police arrested her despite knowing she was being trafficked around the country.

Cassie Pike was just 11 when the abuse began in her home town of Halifax.

She spent five years being repeatedly raped and says police turned a blind eye despite knowledge of what was happening.

When her rapists plied her with drugs to make it easier for them to assault her police arrested her and issued a warning for possession.


And when she was seen at the age of 13 getting into an abuser’s car with another girl she was arrested on suspicion of facilitating a child sex offence.

She was arrested multiple times despite police knowing she was being trafficked (Picture: Getty)

In total Cassie was arrested five times leaving her wondering why her rapists got away it without consequence.



‘No wonder I thought I was to blame,’ she told the Sunday Mirror.

‘I was so hurt and so confused – especially when they suggested it was my fault another girl had been abused.

‘I was only 15 and they were in complete control of my life. How could they suggest it was me that was the criminal?’

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Growing up, her childhood was extremely dysfunctional – her dad was a violent drug addict and her mum died when she was 13 from a rare brain disorder.

Cassie eventually became pregnant by one of her abusers and decided to have an abortion.

But even when she tried to take her own life the gang refused to leave her alone and continued the abuse.

Even when she went to school to sit her GCSEs in dirty clothes and a split lip from a violent attack nothing was done to help.

Instead she was told to try and sit her exam anyway.

Cassie has now released her memoirs detailing her ordeal

It was only when she collapsed and had to be taken to hospital that authorities stepped in and she was moved into a foster homes hundreds of miles away from the men that had made her life hell for so long.

Cassie, now 23, was inspired to come forward to report her abuse in 2011 after reading about the Rochdale grooming case.

Following a complex five-year investigation, she testified in three trials and helped put 18 of them behind bars for a combined total of 168 years.

She also went on to sue Calder­dale Council for failing to protect her from abuse and has released a book about her ordeal this month.

But Cassie, now a mum-of-two, is terrified other young girls are still being attacked by the men who got away.

She said: ‘I’m devastated the majority of the men got off.

‘Police found 100 numbers on my phone – but I was raped by loads more. They’re probably still preying on other children. I bet nothing will happen to them.’

She is also terrified her ordeal will continue when the men eventually get out of prison.

Cassie is currently living under police protection after getting being sent death threats from the men’s family.

Since her ordeal, she has been diagnosed with PTSD and is determined to give her daughter, five, and son, two, the stable childhood she never had.



She added: ‘I’m really strict, but they know how much they are loved.

‘I couldn’t bear for them to suffer the same things I did.’

Prey by Cassie Pike is out now published by John Blake, in paperback, £8.99