Sammy Woodhouse grew up in Rotherham and was groomed by child sex gang leader Arshid Hussain when she was 14 years old. She was subjected to horrendous abuse including rape and assaults and Hussain also coerced her by threatening to kill her family. He also forced her to rob a post office aged 15 and when police raided Hussain's home later that year they found her in bed with him but failed to arrest him and charged her with possessing a baton. Hussain also forced her to fight another girl a few months later, for which Ms Woodhouse was later charged with assault. Ms Woodhouse, pictured, was abused over a number of years by child sex grooming gang leader Arshid Hussain She missed much of her education and worked as a stripper and model. She eventually had a child by Hussain but fled to keep him away from his family. After years of abuse she approached The Times anonymously with her claims, leading to the Jay Inquiry which exposed the Rotherham gang and led to the discovery of more than 1,400 victims between 1997 and 2013. Hussain was eventually jailed for 35 years. Ms Woodhouse waived her anonymity on the BBC in 2017. She has been leading campaigns to change the laws around child sex abuse victims, particularly supporting a bill named after her, Sammy's Law, that would pardon child sex abuse victims who are coerced into committing crimes. The bill was supported by Vera Baird, the Northumbria Police and Crime Commissioner, by Alan Billings, the South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner, by Anne Longfield, the Children's Commissioner for England, and by Simon Bailey, the Chief Constable of the Norfolk Constabulary, among several other chief constables and crime commissioners. Last year she slammed Rotherham Council for trying to help Hussain get in contact with the son he fathered by rape. She said the council should have opposed taking the step to give Hussain access as she fights for a change in the law to deny rapists access to children they have fathered in sickening attacks. 'They should've fought for that child,' she said. 'What they've done is hand my son over on a plate to a rapist.' Ms Woodhouse conducts speaking events at schools and elsewhere, explaining to teenagers, the police and social workers how to recognise that someone is being groomed. She also wrote a book, Just a Child: Britain's Biggest Child Abuse Scandal Exposed, which was released in April 2018. In November 2018, over the first three days, more than three hundred thousand people signed a petition by Woodhouse and Labour MP Louise Haigh, which called for the amendment of the Children Act 1989 to 'ban any male with a child conceived by rape from applying for access/rights'.All rights reserved for this news site dailymail and under his responsibility