By Adele Forrest on Tue 28 Jan 2020
ROTHERHAM MP Sarah Champion is calling on the Government to address a legal loophole that is leaving teenagers exposed to abuse from adults in positions of trust.
By Adele Forrest on Mon 27 Jan 2020
A 51-year-old man who contacted police to confess he had committed a string of child sex offences after being confronted about the abuse has been jailed for over 11 years.
By Adele Forrest on Fri 24 Jan 2020
“DISTURBING reports” about far-right group Britain First targeting Rotherham mosques have prompted the council and police to take action.
By David Parker on Wed 22 Jan 2020
A FORMER Rawmarsh teacher has admitted raping a teenage boy.
By Adele Forrest on Sat 18 Jan 2020
SOUTH Yorkshire Police officers who ignored calls for help from the parents of a grooming victim for fear of causing racial tensions, bribed their schoolgirl daughter with shopping vouchers and failed to act after she was trafficked will not face prosecution.
By Adele Forrest on Fri 17 Jan 2020
AN INVESTIGATION into police officers accused of failing victims of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham is more than 90 per cent complete.
By David Parker on Wed 15 Jan 2020
A MAN accused of child sex offences including grooming will go on trial at Sheffield Crown Court after pleading not guilty.
By David Parker on Thu 05 Dec 2019
A FORMER sports coach who subjected five teenage boys to “horrific abuse” has been jailed for 30 years.
By Gareth Dennison on Thu 21 Nov 2019
ROTHERHAM’S improved taxi regulations — viewed as a gold standard nationally — are to become even more stringent.
By Gareth Dennison on Wed 13 Nov 2019
AN 80-year-old from Rotherham arrested in Thailand has been charged with historical child sex offences.
By David Parker on Mon 28 Oct 2019
A MAN has been found guilty of 20 child sex offences against boys and girls in Rotherham over four decades.
By Adele Forrest on Wed 23 Oct 2019
DEFENCE barristers are using rape myths to influence jurors, unfairly using “good character” witnesses and traumatising complainants, say child sexual abuse victims and support services.
By David Parker on Thu 17 Oct 2019
AN “OPPORTUNISTIC” man put his “lust for children before any sense of decency,” a jury in his crown court trial has been told.
By David Parker on Wed 02 Oct 2019
THE head of a charity supporting victims of physical and sexual violence has spoken out about how she was raped by her own cousin and “given out” to a gang.
By Adele Forrest on Mon 30 Sep 2019
A CONVICTED murderer and his rapist brother stripped two schoolgirls naked in a wood and forced them to perform sex acts, a court was told as the killer was sent down for 18 years for three sex offences.