Around 1,400 Rotherham children 'sexually exploited over 16-year period'
August 26, 2014 at 9:35 am
This could make you ashamed to be British:
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/...sed-report
Quote:
Around 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, according to a report which concluded: "It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered."
The report on events in the town in South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013, found that in more than a third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies. It said there had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership.
Prof Alexis Jay, who wrote the report, said she found examples of "children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone".
Jay said: "They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated." She said she found girls as young as 11 had been raped by large numbers of men.
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/...sed-report
Quote:
Around 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham over a 16-year period, according to a report which concluded: "It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered."
The report on events in the town in South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013, found that in more than a third of these cases the youngsters were already known to child protection agencies. It said there had been "blatant" collective failures by the council's leadership.
Prof Alexis Jay, who wrote the report, said she found examples of "children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone".
Jay said: "They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated." She said she found girls as young as 11 had been raped by large numbers of men.
