{"id":1278,"date":"2017-05-16T14:44:28","date_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:44:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=1278"},"modified":"2017-05-16T14:44:28","modified_gmt":"2017-05-16T13:44:28","slug":"bbcs-new-drama-three-girls-is-based-on-the-harrowing-stories-from-the-rochdale-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/bbcs-new-drama-three-girls-is-based-on-the-harrowing-stories-from-the-rochdale-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s new drama Three Girls is based on the harrowing stories from the Rochdale scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating effect of child-sexual exploitation is laid bare in this harrowing but unmissable mini-series, based on real events.<\/p>\n<p>Between 2008 and 2012, almost 50 young girls suffered appalling abuse at the hands of sex-grooming gangs in and around Rochdale, Greater Manchester.<\/p>\n<div id=\"div-gpt-ad-vip-slot\" class=\"gpt in-article\" style=\"background: #ffffff; border: 0px; font-size: 16px; margin: 0px 0px 24px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; overflow: hidden; z-index: 1; color: #141414; font-family: 'Open Sans', sans-serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; height: 8px; max-height: 8px;\" data-inview=\"\" data-config=\"{&quot;componentType&quot;:&quot;gpt&quot;,&quot;targeting&quot;:{&quot;index&quot;:4,&quot;hivis&quot;:&quot;n&quot;},&quot;referenceNode&quot;:&quot;.article-body &gt; p:nth-of-type(2)&quot;,&quot;sizes&quot;:[[8,8]],&quot;hideOnSensitiveArticle&quot;:true,&quot;relativePos&quot;:&quot;after&quot;,&quot;additionalClass&quot;:&quot;in-article&quot;,&quot;name&quot;:&quot;div-gpt-ad-vip-slot&quot;,&quot;type&quot;:&quot;VIP&quot;}\" data-response-start=\"3609.5400000000004\" data-type=\"gpt\" data-google-query-id=\"CN3AmJTF9NMCFU3iGwod_9cOiQ\" data-timer-slot-rendered=\"10308.32\" data-rendered-width=\"8\" data-rendered-height=\"8\" data-response-end=\"11000.975\" data-viewable=\"true\">\n<div id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/news_1__container__\"><iframe id=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/news_1\" title=\"3rd party ad content\" name=\"google_ads_iframe_\/5293\/mirror.co.uk\/news_1\" width=\"8px\" height=\"8px\" frameborder=\"0\" marginwidth=\"0\" marginheight=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" data-integralas-id-59b3cc94-4d3b-bba3-8aa6-efd416cdc22b=\"\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Almost as shocking was the fact that the victims were ignored by the authorities who were supposed to protect them.<\/p>\n<p>The drama tells the story of three such girls who were preyed on by paedophiles. Holly, brilliantly played by Molly Windsor, is new to Rochdale and eager to fit in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/bbcs-new-drama-three-girls-10409636\">http:\/\/www.mirror.co.uk\/news\/bbcs-new-drama-three-girls-10409636<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The devastating effect of child-sexual exploitation is laid bare in this harrowing but unmissable mini-series, based on real events. Between 2008 and 2012, almost 50 young girls suffered appalling abuse at the hands of sex-grooming gangs in and around Rochdale, Greater Manchester. Almost as shocking was the fact that the victims were ignored by the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1278"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1278\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}