Up to a thousand young people are believed to have been abused in the Shropshire town ALAMYA former social services chief is among three politicians with convictions for child sexual abuse in a town where up to a thousand young people are thought to have been groomed and abused by mainly Asian gangs. An independent inquiry has begun into allegations of 40 years of child sexual abuse by men in Telford, Shropshire. Graham Bould, 60, chairman of Shropshire county council’s social services between 1993 and 1998, was convicted in 2001. He groomed a 15-year-old boy he met at a church group. The Rev Michael Keen, 78, a vicar, former county councillor and one-time member of West Mercia police board, was jailed for 15 months in 2001 for two assaults on the…

Source: The Times April 22, 2018 23:07 UTC