Revealed: Authorities warned of child sex abuse in Rotherham 12 YEARS AGO but did nothing ‘because police priorities were burglary and car crime’
‘Police and council officials in Rotherham were warned that gangs of men were grooming children for sex as long ago as 2003 but failed to act, it emerged today.
South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Council were given a list of suspects along with a report that linked drug-dealing and ‘significant’ child abuse in the Yorkshire town.
The warnings were repeated in another report three years later, but no action was taken against the gangs trafficking children.
The expert who produced both reports – which were released for the first time today – says police told her such crimes were ‘awful’ but the force’s priorities were burglary and car crime.’
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