To use another example similar to Rotherham, look at the former Rochdale MP Cyril Smith.
He got away with abusing underage boys in a care home as they were from troubled backgrounds. So weren't believed when they came forward to report that he was abusing them.
The abused boys were not only dismissed by the police as liars. But also for decades by the Lib Dems, who promoted and praised Smith, until his death.
Despite it coming out that David Steel knew all along that he was a paedophile.
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