REPORT INTO COPS

If only they’d listened to us it could have been stopped DAD’S FURY

THE dad of a Rotherham survivor says it is “atrocious” that no police have been arrested over the scandal – yet he was held by officers twice.

John, not his real name, said he was arrested for breach of peace as he tried to rescue his daughter.

He admitted “kicking off” more than a decade ago outside a flat where his daughter was being abused by a paedophile gang.

John, who has suffered a stroke and a heart attack, was diagnosed with secondary PTSD, which has been blamed on the trauma his family have endured.

The family have also received death threats and in one incident a fake gravestone was dumped in front of his home with his name on it.

Reacting to the IOPC report, he told the Mirror: “These reports are a complete waste of time and money.

“It’s insulting to every single girl and family member. They’ve just turned a blind eye like everyone else.

“I find it sickening and absolutely atrocious that we have not seen any justice for this at all.”

Daughter Elizabeth was 14 when she was groomed by a woman she met at a bus stop.

She was passed around men in Rotherham and taken to Bristol to be raped and abused. Her weight fell to 5st as she was locked in a flat for 10 weeks and controlled with drugs.

Her parents say they spent years begging for help to save her.

Her dad was working long hours in a shop when his daughter kept going missing from home, and he said he made more than 200 phone calls to the authorities pleading for help.

He said he felt deceived by police. He added: “They said it was only happening to us in Rotherham, when there were at least 1,400 families going through the same.

“If only the police had listened to us. They could have stopped it then.”

Daughter Elizabeth, not her real name, has written a book called Snapped about her ordeal. Now a mum, aged 34, she said: “My dad rang the police at his wits’ end.

“But they’ve destroyed him by pinning the blame on my parents instead of the perpetrators. The report is a joke and disrespectful to all survivors and their families.”

I find it atrocious that we haven’t seen any justice at all