Baroness Louise Casey feels she 'let victims down' in fight against Rotherham grooming gang scandal

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Baroness Louise Casey has said she felt personally responsible for failing grooming gang victims when the scandal returned to national attention last year.Addressing audiences at the Hay Festival today, the crossbench peer expressed deep frustration that a decade after her Rotherham inquiry, fundamental problems persisted."I was very disappointed, to put it mildly, I was really upset that in the intermediate 10 years (since Rotherham), not enough had changed," she said."Victims still weren't believed, people didn't gather the right evidence.

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I felt possibly, personally, that I had let those victims down." TRENDING Stories Videos Your Say Baroness Casey originally examined Rotherham Council following revelations that more than 1,400 children had suffered sexual exploitation at the hands of predominantly Asian male gangs in the South Yorkshire town between 1997 and 2013.Her 2015 report uncovered pervasive failures throughout the council's culture and operational practices.Speaking at...

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