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.
'Big minority' of children sexually abused in UK
A "big minority" of British children are subjected to sexual abuse, with as many as one in four falling victim to "this dreadful social problem", the head of a children's charity told Good Morning Britain.
Founder of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood, Peter Saunders, said the convictions of perpetrators was "being driven by survivors and the media".
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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.