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To: RMF who wrote (856235)	5/12/2015 3:04:57 AM
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>> I try to interact with you, inode..... I will interact with most people on this thread who appear to me to be of reasonable intellect and who can make a cogent argument. And some who don't and can't.

To: RMF who wrote (856235)	5/12/2015 10:40:54 AM
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To: RMF who wrote (856235)	5/12/2015 5:14:45 PM
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South Yorkshire Police warned twice of Rotherham child abuse but did not act, as commissioner claims girls were seen as 'willing' Senior members of South Yorkshire police were warned twice of the serious child abuse being carried out in Rotherham around a decade before it was discovered 1,400 children had been raped, trafficked and groomed over a period of 16 years – but no action was taken at the time. The Sheffield Star has obtained reports from 2003 and 2006 detailing the organised child sexual exploitation being carried out in Rotherham and Sheffield. Dr Angie Heal, the author of the reports, stated at the time it was “very evident” that “significant abuse” was taking place in Sheffield and Rotherham, in 2003, and in 2006 found that that the perpetrators of sexual abuse had been able to “carry on with impunity”. The reports were sent to both South Yorkshire Police district commanders, chief superintendents and CID and community safety superintendents at the time, but no action was taken. The newspaper obtained the documents through a Freedom of Information request. As the news of the warnings emerge, South Yorkshire’s current police and crime commissioner has claimed that “it all went wrong” in Rotherham because police had not understood what grooming was, nor recognised the abuse, and had instead seen the girls as prostitutes. Alan Billings told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme: “I don’t think any of us at the time understood what grooming was and that this was grooming. “I think we saw these girls not as victims but as troublesome young people out of control, and willing participants. “We saw it as child prostitution rather than child abuse, and I think that was broadly accepted and that’s why it all went wrong.” In addition to the lack of recognition of the widespread child abuse in Rotherham, Billings said police had been prioritising burglary and car theft because of public demands at the time. Dr Heal told the Sheffield Star that child sexual exploitation had been put in the “too hard to deal with tray” and a senior police officer informed her at the time that “burglary and car crime were policing priorities set by the government”. The documents compiled by Dr Heal included a list of suspected perpetrators in the area. They detailed a number of cases where the police had failed to act on reports of rape and abuse, and where people had been intimidated into not reporting sexual crimes. One case saw an 18-year-old girl report to police that she had been raped by a known heroin dealer, but instead of investigating the allegations, police arrested the girl for theft and never followed up on the rape claim. The list of suspected perpetrators had been redacted by Rotherham Council.n independent.co.uk