Rotherham Council
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Stories
- Police arrested victims parents of child sexual abuse by grooming gangs and took no action against perpetrators of rape and sexual assault against children.[1]
- Widespread child sex abuse that plagued the town for more than 15 years.[2]
- 1,400 children in the town were targeted by grooming gangs between 1997 and 2013.[2]
- Offences went unprosecuted despite police and child protection agencies in Rotherham having had knowledge of these crimes for decades.[2]
- Councillor Alan Atkin fell asleep during briefing on child sexual exploitation.[3]
- Child rapists took children from Rotherham Council care homes to perform "some of the most harrowing" acts the National Crime Agency had ever come across.[4]