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27-08-2014, 01:29 PM | #1 | |||
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1400 children in Rotherham were victims of appalling sexual abuse and exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013. Children as young as 11 were raped by multiple perpetrators, abducted, trafficked to other cities in England, beaten and intimidated, it said.
The report, commissioned by Rotherham Borough Council, revealed there had been three previous inquiries. Council leader Roger Stone said he would step down with immediate effect. Mr Stone, who has been the leader since 2003, said: "I believe it is only right that as leader I take responsibility for the historic failings described so clearly." The inquiry team noted fears among council staff of being labelled "racist" if they focused on victims' descriptions of the majority of abusers as "Asian" men. Professor Alexis Jay, who wrote the latest report, said there had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership, senior managers had "underplayed" the scale of the problem and South Yorkshire Police had failed to prioritise the issue. A victim of sexual abuse in Rotherham told BBC's Panorama: "I was a child and they should have stepped in." Prof Jay said: "No-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years. Our conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013." Revealing details of the inquiry's findings, Prof Jay said: "It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered." The inquiry team found examples of "children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone". Five men from the town were jailed for sexual offences against girls in 2010, but the report said police "regarded many child victims with contempt". District Commander for Rotherham, Ch Supt Jason Harwin said: "Firstly I'd like to start by offering an unreserved apology to the victims of child sexual exploitation who did not receive the level of service they should be able to expect from their local police force. "We fully acknowledge our previous failings." Ch Supt Harwin said the force had "overhauled" the way it dealt with such cases and had successfully prosecuted a number of abusers. But he admitted: "I accept that our recent successes... will not heal the pain of those victims who have been let down." http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england...shire-28939089 Last edited by Livia; 27-08-2014 at 01:29 PM. |
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27-08-2014, 01:30 PM | #2 | |||
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Disgusting!
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27-08-2014, 01:38 PM | #3 | |||
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Horrific. Poor kids
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27-08-2014, 01:44 PM | #4 | |||
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Am I surprised? No.
It's been known for years and ignored. The book 'Dark heart' by Nick Davies shows it was nationwide, I recommend it.
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27-08-2014, 01:52 PM | #5 | |||
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These kids suffered because people didn't want to appear to be racist, despite the males - we won't call them 'men' - who carried out these appaling acts were almost exclusively from Pakistan and south Asia.
I want to see heads rolling, not just in rotherham, but everywhere this has happened. And the first person to be sacked should be Rotherham's Police & Crime Commissioner. How dare he say he doesn't intend to step down? Miliband is calling for his resignation, and if he's got any sense he'll also be calling for the social workers involved to be booted, prosecuted and stripped on their pensions. At least the councillor responsible for Children's Services had the sense to resign immediately. It's hard to believe this could happen in England in 2014. |
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27-08-2014, 01:58 PM | #6 | |||
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"lessons have been learned" from someone who should have been sacked Last edited by LeatherTrumpet; 27-08-2014 at 01:58 PM. |
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27-08-2014, 01:59 PM | #7 | |||
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27-08-2014, 02:02 PM | #8 | |||
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Why would anyone be sacked?... They all work to governmental guidelines.
A couple of scapegoats and we'll forget the whole sorry affair? The cynic in me says the timing of this 'expose' when the spotlight was on westminster in the 80s is suspect.
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27-08-2014, 02:06 PM | #9 | |||
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I've just lost the will to discuss this.
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27-08-2014, 02:09 PM | #10 | |||
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It's sad knowing that relatives of these kids would end up in jail if they found out what happened to their kids. In all child abuse cases really. If I had kids, I honestly don't know what id do and that scares me.
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27-08-2014, 02:22 PM | #11 | |||
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27-08-2014, 02:36 PM | #12 | ||
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i dont trust a word a social worker says to me either, nhs health boards and trust members stink, its seeped down to the nurses now who lie for a living, as for cops, theyre a joke....what are they for? who are they serving? does anyone bother report crime or speak to them anymore? no doubt theyll have yet another unseen internal investigation, where no one at all will be found guilty or take responsibility.....wasnt there a stat somewhere 1500+ people killed in uk police custody down the years and no one has ever been prosecuted? just the way the politicians, the civil servants and cops investigate themselves stinks to the high heavens. the end result of all this cover ups, kronyism, back scratching , back handers, internal investigations nonsense an estimated 1400 innocent child victims of sexual abuse in rotherham alone in less than 20 years? muliply that by all the other towns and cities and villages and all the people they didnt catch? back to immigration and illegal immigration.....supposedly theres over a million illegal immigrants whom we have no records of? add to the millions of immigrants from many parts of the world finallly a question for the morons in parliament. didnt they see any of this coming? who brain washed everyone into towing the policitally correct cliched party lines, instead of telling the truth? imagine that eh? the \actual truth? what makes them think when people traffiking and sexual abuse of kids is such a massive probelm in their countries and cultures...why do these mps believe these people will arrive here in their millions and suddently change all their customs and ways? |
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27-08-2014, 02:40 PM | #13 | |||
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its hard to know who to be most pissed off at
the police the care services the Pakistani community religion humans the list goes on |
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27-08-2014, 08:48 PM | #14 | |||
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This has been going on for ages and nobody has dared say anything for fear of being branded racist or a 'little Englander'. Doesn't help when you have a town like mine rapidly shift demographics and see the central urban areas transform into little micro cultures within themselves with next to no integration. Sheffield is even worse for it.
Heads should roll and it shouldn't stop with Roger Stone. Makes me sick to see my town in the news for all the wrong reasons. |
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27-08-2014, 10:26 PM | #15 | ||
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1400 over 18 years is a phenomenal amount of abuse and cover ups
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28-08-2014, 12:18 AM | #16 | |||
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28-08-2014, 02:41 AM | #17 | ||
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bigger government 1000s of new laws has made us less safe, so has political correctness gone mad
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28-08-2014, 07:00 AM | #18 | |||
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From Radio5 it was because it was more important to not upset the Pakistani Community. And the Big Stink today is BBC not using "Asian" word in many reports. Last edited by arista; 28-08-2014 at 07:01 AM. |
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28-08-2014, 07:12 AM | #19 | ||
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Really horrific incidents,I just get sick of hearing about more and more of these abuses and assaults as to childen and miserable,pathetic people still trying to cling on to their jobs.
Jobs they clearly have done really badly too. I agree with all that Livia has said really and just hope we hear of many heads rolling now as to these crimes. |
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28-08-2014, 12:12 PM | #20 | |||
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It's not simply en vogue do this now, it's been highlighted as an issue to be addressed.
'The Policing Plan sets out the strategic vision for policing in the Cleveland Police area over the period April 2012 to March 2015, and includes the Police Authority and Chief Constable’s Annual Reports. It is a three-year rolling plan and is submitted to the Police Authority for their approval and scrutiny.' Obectives • Reduce repeat offending • Reduce repeat victimisation • Safeguarding vulnerable victims Improve the Force's ability to identify and tackle repeat offenders of domestic abuse and sexual offences. Improve services to domestic abuse and other vulnerable victims by exploring pathways of support. Improve the Force’s ability to identify and tackle stalking and harassment 'Improve the intelligence picture around child exploitation' Improve our ability to deal with hate crime. Consolidate the effective management of violent offenders. Improve the intelligence gathered from repeat missing from homes. Consolidate our ability to safely manage Registered Sex Offenders in the community. The section on 'vulnerable people' makes no reference to those with disabilities or the elderly, why? as they have not been highlighted as a 'policing priority'. http://www.cleveland.police.uk/downl...an_2012-15.pdf
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This is the full inquiry report. http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/download...e_in_rotherham From today's Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...port-rotherham Quote:
From today's Independent . http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk...n-9695443.html Quote:
This case is only a tiny part of a nationwide scandal which is largely being ignored. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2...elowitz-police Quote:
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What's the point in calling the police? They'd probably get 5 years, be out in 3, and then be beyond the reach of anything even approximating justice. |
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28-08-2014, 05:45 PM | #23 | |||
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28-08-2014, 07:06 PM | #24 | |||
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28-08-2014, 08:34 PM | #25 | |||
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For anyone who believes this is all about white girls being targeted
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http://labourlist.org/2014/08/why-pa...-in-rotherham/ There are links to old articles on this subject. Is this just something else which is being ignored by the authorities? One of them from last year Quote:
I will never discount in at least the Rotherham case that councillors were more concerned about the Pakistani community vote and pressure from Pakistani councillors.
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