Rotherham Abuse Case

[Jeff Lebowski]

Anyone familiar with this story?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/wo...=tw-share&_r=0

1400 young girls systematically abused for years. In England? In 2014? How on earth is this not a bigger story?

[Uncle Ted]

Anyone familiar with this story?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/wo...=tw-share&_r=0

1400 young girls systematically abused for years. In England? In 2014? How on earth is this not a bigger story?

Holy crap, no kidding.

It seems there is government corruption going on...

At night, she would come home and hide her soiled clothes at the back of her closet. When she finally found the courage to tell her mother, just shy of her 14th birthday, two police officers came to collect the clothes as evidence, half a dozen bags of them.


“All of them?” she remembers asking. A check was mailed, 140 pounds, or $232, for loss of property, and the family was discouraged from pressing charges. It was the girl’s word against that of the men. The case was closed.
[...]

Eventually, Lucy’s parents sold their business and moved to Spain for 18 months. “It became quite clear that leaving the country was the only way we could save Lucy,” said her mother, who participated in parts of the interview.

And this from the BBC...

Rotherham abuse: Researcher 'faced council hostility'


Her inquiries in 2002 indicated there were then more than 270 victims. Last week, a report revealed more than 1,400 were abused from 1997 to 2013.


The researcher accused the council of being involved in the unauthorised removal of information from her office.


But, the council said it had found no evidence of such allegations.


The researcher, who does not want to be named, told BBC Panorama the draft of her final report was sent to the Home Office and Rotherham Council on a Friday.

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'Effectively suppressed'


She said she was taken aback by the response from one official.


"They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men," she said.


"And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues."


A chapter of her draft report contained severe criticisms of agencies working to tackle the abuse including "alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers".


It also stated: "Responsibility was continuously placed on young people's shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers."


Her report was never published. And the council even tried unsuccessfully to get the researcher sacked.

She said: "I was subjected to the most intense personal hostility - there were threats made from a range of sources. I've never seen back-covering like it and I still feel extremely angry about that."


Prof Alexis Jay, who wrote last week's independent report into the abuse in Rotherham, said the Home Office report was "effectively suppressed".


Her report states: "Had this [2002 draft] report been treated with the seriousness it merited at the time by both the police and the council, the children involved then and later would have been better protected and abusers brought to justice."
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http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-29012571

[wuapinmon]

Stories like this make me want to keep the death penalty.

[byu71]

Anyone familiar with this story?

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/02/wo...=tw-share&_r=0

1400 young girls systematically abused for years. In England? In 2014? How on earth is this not a bigger story?

Maybe because Catholic Priests weren't involved?

[Joe Public]

How horrible.