UK Police Force Apologizes for Failing to Protect Girls From Rochdale Grooming Gangs

UK Police Force Apologizes for Failing to Protect Girls From Rochdale Grooming Gangs
A teenage girl, who claims to be a victim of sexual abuse and alleged grooming, poses in Rotherham, England, on Sept. 3, 2014. Christopher Furlong/Getty Images
Alexander Zhang
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A British police force has apologised to three women and paid them substantial damages for failing to protect them from pedophile rings in the city of Rochdale.

Instead of child victims of sexual abuse, the three were viewed by police as “bad” or “unreliable” witnesses and were sometimes arrested themselves while reporting abuse, the women said.