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No police sacked over child grooming scandal: Officers avoided serious sanction over failures that let down victims of Rotherham gangs
 [Daily Mail, where America gets its news]
The IOPC said eight officers had a case to answer for misconduct and six for gross misconduct. Five received sanctions up to a final written warning, which one campaigner branded ‘just a slap on the hand’. However, despite the apparent lack of accountability, the watchdog found that some historical police failures were continuing today and the report made 12 recommendations to improve training, police practices and called for a change in the law to protect sexual abuse ‘survivors’ from having their future life prospects damaged by their past experiences. There were ‘many instances where crimes were not recorded when they should have been’. In particular there has been ‘no discernible improvement’ with an issue of failure to record crimes against vulnerable children. More should be done to help and communicate with victims and there had been ‘missed opportunities’ by police to work with community leaders. The IOPC found that many victims now had criminal records from incidents during the time they were being ‘exploited.’ Such ‘survival crimes’ may have taken place whilst under the influence of the abuser. But the criminal records made it more difficult for victims to find work. The IOPC has called on the Law Commission to look at offences committed where a child is being groomed or exploited. The possibility of using this as a ‘defence’ and to allow convictions to be legally kept secret should be considered. Related: Rotherham: 2021-02-14 Britain Moslem Rotherham: 2021-02-08 Britain Moslem Rotherham: 2020-07-16 Europe: Rape Victims Accused of Racism Posted by: Skidmark 2021-11-24 |
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