WHISTLEBLOWER Maggie Oliver has said she wants to see a senior police officer or social worker charged with criminal misconduct in a public office over child rape gangs.

The former Detective Constable revealed that her charity is helping to advocate for victims who are still struggling to get justice.

Speaking on GB News, Oliver told Patrick Christys: “Right from day one, I have always said this is about the truth. It is about the evidence. It is not about point scoring.

“It’s about protecting children who have been repeatedly failed, and calling out the lies, the cover ups and the corruption that I have seen for the past 20 years.

“This subject has taken over my life, and when I started my charity in 2019 I did it because I was falling apart on my own.

“I now have a team of people who share my passion, but we do not get a penny from the state or for anybody else. So it’s the public that has kept us here.

“I take very, very seriously the responsibility to try to give victims a voice. We support them both on the emotional support side, where we dedicate a call every week with a trained ambassador who listens to the same story, supports one person over many weeks, sometimes many months. People who have never had anywhere to go to talk safely.

“On the other side, we advocate legally for victims and survivors who are being written off and blamed. Even now we go and help them be heard within the police forces.

“It’s been very easy to blame, to judge, to criminalise, to belittle the experiences of generations of children who have been failed.

“We’ve helped nearly 5,000 survivors since I started in 2019 and some of these cases take years. They’re delayed, and the victims are silenced. They’re not allowed to speak out.

“We’ve got one young woman now who was abused, raped from the age of 13. She is now 30, and she has been silenced, really, by the system.

“They are now trying to criminalise her for what they say are lies.

“I would say that this is an epidemic of cover ups that has lasted. I’ve been dealing with it for 20 years, and it’s so easy to silence a child by saying that they’re making a lifestyle choice, that they are complicit in their abuse.

“But the consequences are lifelong. And what makes it worse is when the system turns away from them, because then they are completely isolated. We are one of the only places I know that they can come to safely.

“We will first listen to what they’re saying. The emotional support is fairly straightforward. We link them up with a trained person who listens to them – a listening ear service.

“The legal advocacy is extremely complex. For instance, we actually had a dad, a little girl who was 11, and she had been targeted online. They got the hooks into her and persuaded her to send, eventually, some inappropriate photographs.

“The dad found these messages on the phone when he took the phone off the little girl and reported it to the police.

“Two police officers went and basically walked in and said to the little girl, bear in mind, she was terrified in the front room. Her father had seen naked pictures of her. She thought she was talking to a boyfriend.

“The police walked in and they said to the dad, ‘We don’t want to speak to you. We want to speak to your daughter.’

“They walked up to the little girl, and they said, ‘Right before you say anything, what you’ve done by sending those photographs online is criminal behaviour. But delete the messages, delete everything off your computer, and we’ll say no more about it.’

“The dad threw those officers out and came to us, and we were able to advocate for that family. And it turned out that there was a gang of, I think, 35 abusers behind that one message.

“Now, if we didn’t get involved, that would never have gone any further. So it’s impossible for me to explain what we do.

“We’ve got survivor stories, we’ve got feedback. Our help is life saving for those who have been silenced or written off for years.

“And it isn’t always about a criminal prosecution, in fact, it rarely is. Because less than two in every 100 reported rates or gang abuse ever reaches court, but that’s 98 victims who have had their lives destroyed and been silenced.

“The other thing I want to see, and I am not dying before I see it, is a senior police officer or a senior social worker charged with gross misconduct, with criminal misconduct in a public office.

“They have turned away. Repeated governments, senior police officers, councils, social workers have pretended that this was not going on.

“I lost everything to speak the truth, but I am proud of myself because I spoke the truth, and now the country knows.”