Care girl’s note detailed abuse

A care-home manager has told a jury in a sex-grooming trial how a teenager he was looking after sobbed after handing him a note detailing how she had been abused.

She is one of five who have given evidence for the prosecution in the trial of 11 men from Rochdale and Oldham.

The defendants deny a series of sex offences against victims as young as 13, and providing them to other men for sex.

The manager said the young girl had twice asked to move away from the Rochdale care home.

In the first incident, he told the court, she posted a note under his office door late at night in March, 2010. It made clear she wanted to move but didn’t say why.

“She said she needed to be moved for her safety as well as our own but would not say what that actually involved.

Days later the girl wrote a second note.

That note, read to the jury, said: “Asians pick me up, they get me drunk, they give me drugs, they have sex with me and pay me not to tell anyone. I want to move.”

The manager told the court: “She was crying, sobbing, and didn’t want to look at us but she wanted the help.”

Earlier he had said the girl had changed from a “quite pleasant” youngster who regularly attended schools.”

From the beginning of January 2010 her behaviour changed, he added, — she would go missing sometimes for a few days and once for two weeks. He said in all she absconded 19 times.

The trial, at Liverpool Crown Court, has previously heard allegations the girl was raped on a number of occasions in that period.

The case continues.