8-year probe into police failings... £6m 47 officers looked into... 0 sacked 0 prosecuted... Every single victim... BETRAYED

Spent... ... child sex grooming scandal

It’s like the police are untouchable – this is an insult to all of us SURVIVOR SLAMS THE LACK OF ACCOUNTABILITY

Many vulnerable individuals were seen as problems not as victims REPORT DETAILS CATALOGUE OF FAILURES BY POLICE FORCE

EXCLUSIVE SURVIVORS of the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal have branded a police watchdog report “a sickening insult”.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct found “significant failings” by South Yorkshire police during the years of abuse in which more than 1,000 children suffered.

But no officers have ever been prosecuted or sacked.

The IOPC probe found one “unsympathetic” officer suggested to a dad that his 15-year-old daughter being raped might teach her “a lesson”.

It added officers considered children as young as 11 “consented” to the assaults. Police “failed to protect” vulnerable kids – with a 12-year-old being made pregnant by her abuser. The IOPC investigation, which took eight years and cost £6million, looked into the actions of 47 officers. Of the 163 complaints against individuals, the IOPC upheld 43. The report said eight officers had a case to answer for misconduct and six had a case to answer for gross misconduct. Seven of them are now retired and at least one has resigned. The IOPC said some officers failed to act even when a child was seen being abused.

The report said: “Many vulnerable individuals were seen as problems not victims.”

Yet it added: “Investigators found no evidence individual members of the force failed in their statutory duties.”

It was revealed the most severe punishment handed out has been a final written warning. A survivor, now 34, told the Mirror: “It’s sickening. It’s like the police are untouchable. It’s an insult to all of us.” Survivor and campaigner Sammy Woodhouse, 37, who was raped from the age of 14, said she is “disgusted” nobody in the police has been held accountable. South Yorkshire police has admitted: “We let victims down.”

Steve Noonan, of the IOPC, said: “We are encouraged by the progress made to address recommendations we made last year to ensure policing learns from this.”

The full scale of the horror emerged in 2014 when a report said an estimated 1,400 children were abused in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by British-pakistani men.

The crimes had continued despite an ex-south Yorkshire police employee, Dr Angie Heal, writing reports between 2003 and 2006 which informed senior officers about the child sex assaults in the town. More than 40 of the

abusers have been jailed.