{"id":1416057,"date":"2022-04-02T11:29:52","date_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:29:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416057"},"modified":"2022-04-02T11:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-04-02T15:29:55","slug":"zero-accountability-police-cleared-in-rotherham-grooming-rape-gangs-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/zero-accountability-police-cleared-in-rotherham-grooming-rape-gangs-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"&#039;Zero Accountability&#039; \u2013 Police Cleared in Rotherham &#039;Grooming&#039; Rape Gangs Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fzero-accountability-police-cleared-in-rotherham-grooming-rape-gangs-scandal%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1416057&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">The investigation into the police\u2019s handling of the Rotherham grooming gang scandal, in which an estimated 1,400 young girls were sexually abused, has failed to impose any criminal penalties or see any officers fired for misconduct.<\/p>\n<p>In a decision widely condemned by victims\u2019 rights activists, politicians, and lawyers, the Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) has cleared former detective\u00a0David Walker of any wrongdoing in the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal. The decision to not punish Walker means that all 47 officers who were investigated following the 2014 Jay Report in grooming gang failures have not faced punishment.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n<p>Walker, formerly of the of the South Yorkshire Police, had been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2022\/03\/23\/grooming-gang-whistleblower-claims-police-said-she-was-rocking-the-multicultural-boat\/\">accused<\/a> of ignoring tips about potential child grooming, but the IOPC claims that he \u201cacted appropriately with any information\u201d provided to him, the BBC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-south-yorkshire-60940507\">reports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Jayne Senior MBE, a key witness in the inquiry who ran the\u00a0Risky Business youth project between 1999 and 2011, said that the former detective had failed to investigate information about two young teenage girls being sexually abused by a taxi driver, with Senior claiming he had said:\u00a0\u201cThis appears to be a matter for social services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Providing evidence to the inquest this week, Walker claimed to have been working on up to 180 cases at any given time. He went on to admit that he did not always record information regarding child sex abuse in police databases, but said that the information was sent to other officers or there was a reasonable expectation that other officers would investigate.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Former police detective turned rape gang whistleblower Maggie Oliver <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MaggieoliverUK\/posts\/535139584892245\">said<\/a> that the decision to clear all the officers involved in the Rotherham scandal demonstrated the \u201ccorrupt\u201d nature of investigations into police.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cExpectations are far too low, senior officers should be monitoring and supervising these decisions anyway, and standards are just not high enough when it comes to children being raped!\u201d Oliver wrote on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut unfortunately I am not shocked. We see this all too often, and usually these cases aren\u2019t brought to public attention. But they are not rare.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s corrupt!\u00a0They should ALL hang their heads in shame. It still makes my blood boil even after all these years!\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Policing Report Finds \u2018Many Instances\u2019 of Grooming Gang Child Sex Crimes Going Unrecorded <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/iYnQtZIIOA\">https:\/\/t.co\/iYnQtZIIOA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1463824282853593088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 25, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B3\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>Sarah Champion, the Labour MP for Rotherham, said that the decision not to prosecute any police officers will be a \u201cbitter disappointment\u201d for the grooming gang victims.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cChild sexual exploitation was treated as low priority. Investigations were under-resourced. Officers were untrained and, far too often, uncaring,\u201d the Labour MP said.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cThe result was that potentially thousands of children were abandoned to abuse of the most shocking kind.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The inquiry, dubbed Operation Linden, was launched following the publishing of the Jay Report in 2014, which found that at least 1,400 girls were subjected to sexual abuse.<\/p>\n<p>The report said that authorities should not overlook the reality of mostly white young girls being groomed by mostly Pakistani heritage for fear of being branded as racist.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B4\" class=\"a8d adSo\"><\/figure>\n<p>A 2020\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/europe\/2020\/01\/19\/police-knew-about-rotherham-asian-rape-gangs-but-ignored-them\/\">report<\/a> from the Independent Office for Police Conduct which just cleared officers of wrong said that police did just that, observing that police officers in Rotherham\u00a0overlooked children being sexually abused by \u201cAsian\u201d rape gangs due to politically correct fears within the police force.<\/p>\n<p>One police chief inspector was quoted in the report as telling a father of a missing girl that Rotherham would \u201cerupt\u201d if they were informed that \u201cAsian\u201d grooming gangs were abusing young white girls.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Cover-Up Continues? Police in Rape Gangs Hotspot Not Recording Ethnicity of Abusers <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YGp7V7yrAL\">https:\/\/t.co\/YGp7V7yrAL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1477620579209560064?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 2, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Operation Linden investigated\u00a047 police officers. While eight were said to have committed \u201cgross misconduct\u201d, so far none have been either fired or face criminal charges.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney\u00a0David Greenwood, who represented a number of Rotherham grooming gang victims, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetimes.co.uk\/article\/no-police-held-to-account-for-rotherham-scandal-kzjsmcjfs\">said<\/a> of the inquiry: \u201cIt\u2019s extremely disappointing that despite the best efforts of the brave women I represent, the police discipline system has delivered zero accountability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Greenwood went on to warn that the lack of punishment for police misconduct would result in a lack of trust for the police force from future victims.<\/p>\n<p>The IOPC\u2019s director of major investigations, Steve Noonan said: \u201cWe now need to consider the judgment and any potential impact on one ongoing investigation as part of Operation Linden before we will be able to publish our report, which will cover 91 investigations completed so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur priority remains the welfare of the survivors who took the difficult decision to come forward. They have shown a great deal of bravery both prior to and throughout our investigations and we must be respectful of the experiences they have gone through.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The full report from Operation Linden is expected to be published later this month.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Rape Gangs Whistleblower: Predators Still at Large Due to \u2018Institutional Cowardice\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Nw5MBTAxgs\">https:\/\/t.co\/Nw5MBTAxgs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/1379749291409874954?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 7, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><em><strong>Follow Kurt Zindulka on Twitter here <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KurtZindulka\">@KurtZindulka<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The investigation into the police\u2019s handling of the Rotherham grooming gang scandal, in which an estimated 1,400 young girls were sexually abused, has failed to impose any criminal penalties or<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":123,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1416057","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416057","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/123"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1416057"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416057\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1416057"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1416057"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1416057"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}