Saturday, December 21, 2013

'Police ignored child sex victims because they were from COUNCIL ESTATES


'Police ignored victims of Rochdale child sex grooming gang because they were from COUNCIL ESTATES': Shocking report reveals failings allowed abuse to continue

‘One of Britain’s worst child sex-grooming gangs was allowed to flourish in Rochdale because police ignored their victims when they found out they were from council estates, the local MP has said.

Labour’s Simon Danczuk said officers’ class snobbery was one of a catalogue of failings by Greater Manchester Police and other agencies in their handling of the scandal, highlighted in the Serious Case Review published today.

According to its findings, a ‘significant part’ of the sexual exploitation committed against young girls should have been predicted and prevented.’

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