article_snippet.sent: It meant that, while young girls suffered heinous abuse at the hands of sex gangs in Sheffield and Rotherham, top brass could have had a perverse incentive to instruct young girls suffered heinous abuse at the hands of sex gangs in Sheffield and Rotherham, top brass could have had a perverse incentive to instruct their staff to look elsewhere staff to look elsewhere.
article_snippet.sent: The documents and the testimony of former officers suggested the force failed to pursue a number of child sexual exploitation inquiries and ignored intelligence that girls as young as 12 were being raped.
article_snippet.sent: A copy of a document from the force’s intelligence database detailed more than 200 girls suspected of being sexually exploited.
article_snippet.sent: A copy of a document from the force listed more than 320 men accused of carrying out abuse, mainly between 2007 and 2010.
article_snippet.sent: Allegations included rapes, traffickings, child abduction and threats to scald girls by holding kettles of boiling water over traffickings, child abduction and threats to scald girls.
article_snippet.sent: The alleged victims were aged between 12 and 15 while The alleged victims abusers included Iraqi Kurds, white British, black British, and men of Pakistani heritage.
article_snippet.sent: In most cases, the files suggest there is no evidence police took any action.
article_snippet.sent: In 2007, after an investigation led to two Iraqi Kurds being convicted of abuse, officers asked for resources to mount a much wider investigation in Sheffield.
article_snippet.sent: At least 1,400 girls in the town were left to be abused by Asian men between 1997 and 2013 because the authorities were also too scared to admit there was a race issue, according to her report published in September.
highlights_snippet.sent: Girls suffered abuse at hands of sex gangs in Sheffield and Rotherham .