Scarlett, now 18, from Greater Manchester, has waived her anonymity as a sexual abuse victim in the hope of helping others in her position.
Then a man wearing a black balaclava delivered a menacing letter to Marlon's house - his presence was captured on the CCTV installed above the front door.
"I'd wake up and there would be loads of bruises on my legs and I didn't know where they'd come from, but they were big bruises," she says."I'd see things in the morning like condoms on the side, sex toys, big bottles of vodka, cocaine packets," she says. Soon I started to play up in school. Until this point I had never skived. But now I found myself answering back and being the class clown.
I started going missing, and kept getting caught with older guys, doing drugs and going to hotels, getting off my face. I was having sex with some of the men. All sorts of different things. I was made to eat cigarette butts. I hope for a happy, healthy life and would like a job that helps people who have had a similar experience to mine. But I know I have some hills to climb first.
"The police wouldn't even arrest them. We'd be in a car park at 3am. It'd just be: 'What are you doing here?' "In the back of my head I knew it wasn't right, but I just kind of ignored it because everyone else did," she says.CCTV captured one of the men telling the other to give 'just a little tap' on the door.
But the police texted back that it was in fact social services who would need to apply for a recovery order."While my daughter was missing from home for two weeks and being more traumatised by the experience of being groomed and sexually exploited, they just saw me as a problem, as a parent who gave them earache."It would be another three years before the police imposed a CAWN on the person who was allegedly grooming Scarlett.
"I realise why he did it now," she says, revealing a mind map she had drawn to convince care staff to let her move back in with her father.
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