Grooming gang jailed for a combined 106 years

It breaks my heart to hear there's still monsters who target children.

I spent a lot of my childhood in care. Foster care wasn't too bad but once I got to my teens it was always care homes. And these predators would be circling us like prey. Our social workers would warn us, they tried to get police involved but they didn't care.

I won't go into details but there was an incident and I was taken by a man. When I escaped I was taken to a police station. I was then told that as I'd taken money in the past from this man that I could be charged with soliciting. I clammed right up.

It seems not a lot has changed over the years.

Absolute bullshit. They did it because of laziness, incompetence, and not giving the slightest shit about violence against women and girls.

You are thinking of Rochdale, Galloway has never been a MP on Rotherham.

We have the same labour council and same labour MP since the scandal, the previous labour one had to resign due to corruption. but she has international aspirations and her focus is on that rather than the town.

A number of the abuse allegations included members of the council and a man made a Lord by tony Blair's government was a sexual abuser.

I'm no Tory supporter but the above is why I detest the labour party so much in my town as they have systemically destroyed it.

I also live in the area and the consensus it's that these poor girls were let down by so many of the the people who should have protected them.
The main cause the police/ care homes/ the council were petrified of being branded racist, so they turned a blind eye to the abuse.

Shame on them.

I bet that useless prick George Galloway didn't do a damned thing do address it when he was the MP for the short amount of time that he was.

This, I hate when the media group the total of all the prison sentences together.

6 years for one, 15 years for another etc for ruining that many children’s lives doesn’t sound like justice is served to me.

Big headline figure but between 7, not so long considering what they did. Will they be out early with “good behaviour”?

I’m very glad that their heinous behaviour will be very much frowned upon by fellow inmates. Perhaps they’ll understand how it feels to be fearful every day. Good.

Absolute bullshit. They did it because of laziness, incompetence, and not giving the slightest shit about violence against women and girls.

And the reason so many agencies did nothing, was because they were terrified of being accused of racism.

And yet that ‘care’ costs a fortune - a lot more per year than an elite boarding school! It’s a disgrace.

And the reason so many agencies did nothing, was because they were terrified of being accused of racism.

Yet again (!) victims left unprotected because of lack of basic safeguarding. Care home staff standing by and waving off young girls who were being picked up by strange men.

Teachers observing young girls being picked up outside school gates, police ignoring reports of abuse saying it's a lifestyle choice. Members of the community covering up for a load of paedophiles and predators.

The Council and various departments dismissing repeated reports and letting this continue unabated for years.

Every single person who let down those girls should be sacked and prosecuted for colluding in child abuse.

Dirty bastards.

Once kids go into care, there's little hope for them I'm afraid. They get trafficked and abused left right and centre.

I live in the area, it still is going on, there Is a number of areas in Rotherham that police don't bother policing.

Anyone who allowed this predatory behaviour to continue unabated, should be prosecuted.

Yes, this is what I keep thinking. We're not talking about the 70's or 80's. This happened under the noses of social workers, foster parents etc trained in child Safeguarding.

Big headline figure but between 7, not so long considering what they did. Will they be out early with “good behaviour”?

I’m very glad that their heinous behaviour will be very much frowned upon by fellow inmates. Perhaps they’ll understand how it feels to be fearful every day. Good.

Scum of the earth these men are.

I find it hard to understand how it was allowed to go on in plain sight and for so long. Adult men picking up children from their homes?

Big headline figure but between 7, not so long considering what they did. Will they be out early with “good behaviour”?

I’m very glad that their heinous behaviour will be very much frowned upon by fellow inmates. Perhaps they’ll understand how it feels to be fearful every day. Good.