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Stolen Childhoods: The Grooming Scandal
Alison Holt investigates the grooming and sexual exploitation of children which has devastated lives in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham for more than twenty years.
For more than twenty years the grooming and sexual exploitation of children devastated lives in the South Yorkshire town of Rotherham. Panorama investigates why the police and council ignored warnings about the abuse that affected more than 14 hundred children. Reporter Alison Holt speaks to those who repeatedly tried to raise the alarm and hears from young people and their families, demanding to know why they weren't protected.
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Fri 5 Sep 201400:20
BBC Two except Scotland