Three Girls (2017)

Directed by

Philippa Lowthorpe

Genre

drama film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 3 episodes

Rated

NR

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 49 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This drama series tells the true story of the Rochdale child sex abuse ring. It follows the young victims and shows how police and local authorities failed to investigate their allegations because the girls were seen as unreliable and because of concerns about racism.

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What happens

Three Girls is a three-part British television drama series written by Nicole Taylor and directed by Philippa Lowthorpe. It was broadcast on three consecutive nights between 16 and 18 May 2017 on BBC One. A co-production between BBC Studios and Studio Lambert, the series is a dramatised version of the events surrounding the Rochdale child sex abuse ring, and describes how the police and the local authorities failed to investigate allegations of child abuse and rape because the victims were perceived as unreliable witnesses and through fear of being accused of racism because of the ethnicity of the perpetrators. Three Girls drew a strong viewing audience upon its first broadcast, with 8.24 million viewers for episode one, 7.88 million for episode two and 8.19 million for episode three. The series was released on DVD in Region 2 on 8 January 2018. A BBC documentary on the case, The Betrayed Girls, was broadcast on 3 July 2017 as a follow-up to the drama. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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