Rape victim’s fury after no cops are sacked over Asian sex gang failures
NOT one cop was sacked over failures that left Asian gangs free to abuse young white girls, a watchdog’s report has revealed.
Up to 1,400 girls as young as 11 were drugged, raped and pimped by gangs in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
But an officer told one victim’s dad they could do nothing to stop the abuse as it might provoke racial tension, the report reveals.
Police told another parent “streetwise” white girls saw older Asian men as a “fashion accessory” but would “grow out of it”.
A rape victim was told her ordeal would teach her a lesson. And a girl was even arrested after being found with her tormentor.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct investigated 265 complaints from 44 victims, involving 47 officers from South Yorkshire Police.
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Yet only eight officers had a case to answer — over 43 proven blunders.
Most cops had retired and were beyond the reach of disciplinaries. The rest were given “words of advice” or a final warning.
Sammy Woodhouse was 15 when she gave birth to ringleader Arshid Hussain’s son after repeated rapes.
He was jailed for at least 35 years.
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Sammy, who waived her anonymity, said: “I’m disgusted that not one professional will be held to account.
"Thousands of children and families have had their lives ripped apart. This has left me feeling like I’ve been raped by the system.
"Life should be hard for rapists, not us. They get all the rights, we get none.”
The IOPC admitted survivors would be disappointed in their £6million, eight-year probe.
It found police were indifferent to victims’ suffering and concluded some girls had consented to sexual acts and were equally to blame.
South Yorkshire Crime Commissioner Alan Billings said the report “lets down victims and survivors”.
Jayne Senior, whose Risky Business youth project passed on significant intelligence, said the police complaints system “protected senior officers from being accountable”.
Deputy Chief Constable Tim Forber said: “We failed to see the girls as victims, for that I am deeply sorry. They deserved better.”
‘Child of 13 plied with drink and drugs’
VICTIM A was just 13 years old when she was targeted by the grooming gangs.
In the weeks and months that followed she was repeatedly reported missing by her worried family.
Her abusers plied her with drink and drugs, gave her lavish gifts and pestered her for sex — before passing her round pals.
If she refused to comply she was beaten.
On one occasion she was found by police in a house with an older Asian man.
But instead of taking any action officers left her there — and later tried to coax her into becoming an informant.
They offered her shopping vouchers in exchange, met her at a McDonald’s and obtained evidence of sex abuse but failed to offer her sanctuary.
In February 2005, she was driven to Bristol by two Asian men, with another survivor, and ordered to carry out sex acts.
They refused and were left on the street before making their way back to Rotherham where the abuse continued.
A senior cop told Victim A’s dad: “The police can do nothing because of racial tensions.”
‘Girl hiding half-naked under bed arrested’
VICTIM B was sexually abused by the grooming gangs for three years from 1999 whilst in care.
On one occasion cops found her hiding under a bed half-naked. But instead of launching a probe into child sex abuse officers arrested her for possessing a truncheon.
They later passed their concerns on to the specialist Police Protection Unit but they were never followed up.
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The victim also told how she witnessed a police officer buying steroids from one of her abusers — only to see him escape punishment because he had retired from the force.
The report found: “The officer had resigned from the force before the end of the investigation, meaning that, under the regulations in place at that time, they were not required to attend a misconduct hearing.”
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Adil Khan, 51, also claimed his conviction for serious sex offences in Rochdale in 2012 would be bad for family business back home.
His final deportation hearing was adjourned to today.
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