In 2006, Sophie tried to report sexual abuse at Oldham police station, but was told to come back when she was “not drunk”.
Two men then picked her up in a car and raped her in a nearby street, before she was taken to two houses in the town and raped and sexually assaulted by multiple men.
Sophie said she had fought to get her voice heard by “politicians and people in power [who] do not want to listen”.
Local inquiries into the abuse in Oldham were limited and led to “recommendations that the majority of the time, they don’t really follow”, she said.
She added that survivors wanted a “thorough” government-led probe that would lead to prosecutions.
“We’ve all gone through trauma and we deserve our voices to be heard – people need to stop being scared of discussing it,” she added.
