Shaun Wright steps down as PCC after Rotherham report pressure
Shaun Wright has stepped down as South Yorkshire's police and crime commissioner after weeks of pressure over the Rotherham sexual abuse scandal, his office has announced.
Officials who ignored abuse 'as bad as the perpetrators'
One child victim among some 1,400 covered in a report into sexual exploitation in Rotherham has said the officials who failed to act are as guilty as the perpetrators.
Using the assumed name Emma Jackson, she told BBC Radio 5 Live that she had been abused from the age of 13.
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Children were 'raped and beaten' in Rotherham
Children as young as 11 were raped by large groups of men, a new inquiry into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham has found.
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True scale of Rotherham child sex abuse was 'downplayed'
A report into 16 years of child sexual abuse in Rotherham has concluded that the true scale of exploitation in the town will never be known.