Rotherham police failed more than 1,400 girls

47 police officers all kept their jobs despite looking the other way while 1,400 girls were abused, trafficked and groomed in Rotherham. Julia: “They were being gang raped. The police, the council and the social workers all knew about it.“ A long-awaited report into more than 200 allegations of police failures in relation to child sexual exploitation (CSE) in Rotherham “fails to identify any individual accountability” and “lets down victims and survivors”, a police and crime commissioner (PCC) has said.