Evidence 
of abuse made known
in 1990s

By The Newsroom
Published 27th Aug 2014, 00:20 BST
THE DAMNING dossier states that evidence of the sexual exploitation of children in Rotherham was first made known to councillors and police in the 1990s, but it was almost a 10 years later when the scale of the crimes began to emerge.

According to yesterday’s report, a council youth service called Risky Business had alerted local police and social services to the problem around the middle of the 1990s, yet evidence was “disbelieved, suppressed or ignored”.

It took until 2010, when five men, described by a judge as “sexual predators”, were given lengthy jail terms after they were found guilty of grooming teenage girls for sex in Rotherham for the issue to be thrust into the spotlight.

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