Victims Of Rotherham Grooming Gangs Say They Were Also Raped By Police Officers

Victims Of Rotherham Grooming Gangs Say They Were Also Raped By Police Officers

Five women who were sexually abused by Asian grooming gangs in Rotherham as children claim that they were also assaulted by police officers at the time.

According a BBC report one of the victims says she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire police officer in a marked car.

She said that he would threaten to hand her back to the gang if she did not comply.

She told the BBC: “In a world where you were being abused so much, being raped once [by a police officer] was a lot easier than multiple rapes [by the gang] and I think he knew that”.

The Mail Online reports: The woman is one of five who allege that as children they were exploited by corrupt police as well as grooming gangs.

Among officers alleged to have preyed on girls is PC Hassan Ali.

He died in 2015 having been hit by a car on the day he was suspended over alleged misconduct during the abuse scandal.

At least 1,400 girls in Rotherham were abused by gangs of men – mainly of Pakistani heritage – between 1997 and 2013, Prof Alexis Jay concluded in a landmark report in 2014.

South Yorkshire Police’s major crime unit is currently conducting the inquiry into the involvement of police officers in the Rotherham grooming scandal under the ‘direction and control’ of police watchdog the IOPC.

Three former South Yorkshire officers have been arrested on suspicion of historic sexual offences including attempted rape, indecent assault and misconduct in a public office while they were on duty.

None has been charged.

Written accounts by grooming gang survivors collected by specialist child abuse lawyers allege years of abuse by serving police officers in Rotherham from the mid-1990s to early 2000s.

Most were girls in their teens at the time but some were as young as 11, according to the shocking report.

One reports hearing a police officer having sex with girls in exchange for drugs and money.

Another says she witnessed one supplying class A drugs to a grooming gang.

Three describe being beaten up by officers as children, including in a police cell.

One victim given the pseudonym Willow told the broadcaster she was sexually abused by hundreds of men over five years after first being targeted aged 11 – two of them police officers.

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