'She says she's over age - enjoy your night, lads': What one police officer told Pakistani grooming gang as he returned 16-year-old girl to them

A grooming gang survivor who was raped and abused by at least 50 men was returned to the brutes by police after she mistakenly told them she was an adult.Fiona Goddard was groomed by a gang of Asian men from the age of 14 after she ran away from a children's home in Bradford in 2008.What started with asking for a lighter, turned into a harrowing ordeal which would see her trafficked to Blackburn, Rotherham, Rochdale, Birmingham, Edinburgh and Oldham.Two years after the grooming began, police officers tracked the then 16-year-old Ms Goddard to a property in Bradford.Inside were seven men of Pakistani heritage – some half-dressed – sat in a filthy lounge with drugs and empty bottles of alcohol littered around them.It was in these abhorrent conditions that the evil men violently raped and abused the teenager.Officers rescued Ms Goddard from the sordid gang but in the back of a police car having been plied with copious amounts of drugs and alcohol, she mistakenly told them she was 18.Despite being logged on the police database as an under-age victim of child sexual exploitation, the officers returned her to the hellhole she had just been rescued from. Fiona Goddard was just 14 when she was groomed by a gang of Asian men after running away from a children's home in 2008 The grooming gang survivor was taken back to her abusers by police after she mistakenly told them she was 18When they dropped Ms Goddard back at the home, one officer told her abusers: 'She says she’s over-age - enjoy your night, lads.'Analysis has now revealed that at least 60 police officers were involved in the grooming gang – either actively or by ignoring the sex crimes.Anonymous researchers have created The Network Map, in an attempt to establish the exact number of officers involved in the evil.The database pulled together criminal trial transcripts, police and local authority records, survivor testimonies and media reports.More than 1,000 perpetrators have been identified and more than 3,000 connections have been revealed between them on the map.A review by Baroness Louise Casey found that Asian Muslim men were overwhelmingly responsible for the abuse of thousands of mostly white girls.Being returned to her abusers was not the only time Ms Goddard fell victim to mistreatment at the hands of the police.By the age of 15, Fiona became pregnant by one of her rapists and gave birth days after her 16th birthday.Izar Hussain (pictured left) was given a 16-year sentence and Parvaze Ahmed (pictured right) was jailed for 17 yearsSaeed Akhtar (left) was found guilty of one charge of rape and two charges of causing or inciting child prostitution. Zeeshan Ali (right) was found guilty of one charge of sexual assault. He was jailed for 18 monthsBut the newborn was soon taken from her arms and given up for adoption as she was told she couldn't keep her daughter.Yet the abuse carried on for another two years, with police laying the blame on her.The sordid gang of abusers also terrified Ms Goddard into years of silence by showing her morbidly violent videos of people's skulls being crushed. It was not until 2019 that the nine grooming gang members faced justice when they were jailed for more than 130 years. Ms Goddard said the prosecution was one she had to fight 'tooth and nail for' having repeatedly reported the case to police for five years.'Over the years from 2008 and 2013 I was found in cars with men and they [police] said I was the reason society was going downhill by putting working class men in danger,' she said.'I was called a child prostitute. I was accused of exchanging sex in return for gifts by 14. And described as running a brothel by 17.'Repeatedly they said I was streetwise and knew how to look after myself that even though I was a missing person it wasn't a concern and they downgraded it.Fahim Iqbal (pictured left) was jailed for 7 years for aiding and abetting rape. Kieran Harris (pictured right) was jailed for 17 years, he was described by one of his victims as 'an evil, pixie-faced man'Basharat Khaliq (pictured left) was sentenced to 20 years imprisonment and Naveed Akhtar (pictured right) was jailed for 17 years'Then someone highlighted I had been on the child sex exploitation watchlist for a while so they upgraded it to medium. There was a lot of stuff like that where it wasn't taken seriously.'Fiona bravely waived her right to anonymity following the case as she 'didn't want people to think this was a reason to be ashamed anymore'.'I didn't do anything wrong,' she said.Basharat Khaliq, known as Bash, was found guilty of five counts of rape and one count of assault by penetration. He was sentenced in 2019 to 20 years imprisonment.He was given 16 years for each of the five counts of rape, served concurrently, and four years for assault by penetration, to be served consecutively.Saeed Akhtar, known as Sid, was found guilty of one charge of rape and two charges of causing or inciting child prostitution. He was jailed for 20 years.Naveed Akhtar, known as Nav, was found guilty of two counts of rape and not guilty of a third allegation of rape. He was jailed for 17 years.Parvaze Ahmed, known as Pav, was found guilty of three charges of rape. He was jailed for 17 years. Mohammed Usman was found guilty of two counts of rape. He was jailed for 17 yearsIzar Hussain, known as Billy Joe Joe, was found guilty of one rape and one attempted rape, and acquitted of two rapes. He was given a 16-year sentence.Kieran Harris was found guilty of two counts of rape. He was jailed for 17 years and was described by one of his victims as 'an evil, pixie-faced man'.Fahim Iqbal was found guilty of aiding and abetting rape. He was jailed for seven years.Mohammed Usman, known as Manny, was found guilty of two counts of rape. He was jailed for 17 years.Zeeshan Ali, known as Twinny or T, was found guilty of one charge of sexual assault. He was jailed for 18 months.Do YOU have a story? Email Joshua.Haining@dailymail.co.uk