UK: Police commissioner refuses to quit over child abuse scandal

The man in charge of police in a town in northern England where at least 1,400 children were sexually exploited over a 16 year period is rejecting calls to step down.

Shaun Wright headed children’s services at Rotherham Council between 2005 and 2010 when the abuse was going on, before becoming South Yorkshire’s Police and Crime Commissioner.

“The fact is that when he was a cabinet member of children’s services in Rotherham there were three, not one, two, but three reports, which highlighted th…
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