Rotherham abuse scandal report has 'lets victims down'
IOPC investigators have found there were "systemic problems" within South Yorkshire Police that meant "like other agencies in Rotherham at that time, it was simply not equipped to deal with the abuse and organised grooming of young girls on the scale we encountered".
"If they would have acted when I was making statements at 16 it could have prevented other people from even being abused," she said. Failures to understand that children being groomed and abused did not always view themselves as victims Another said: "I was told repeatedly by the police that I was responsible for my own actions, allowing myself to be a victim."
"Lives have been ruined. Nothing can happen to replace all the damage that's been done. We're just left to get on with things," she said. The pledge from the National Crime Agency which is currently working to bring the Rotherham perpetrators to justice. Its team, headed by senior investigating officer, Philip Marshall, is probing crimes which, in some cases, go back 25 years.
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