The women's accounts, seen by the BBC, have been redacted to protect their identities. They were collected by a specialist child abuse legal firm, Switalskis Solicitors, as part of a bid to bring a separate civil claim against SYP and secure compensation for alleged victims.

The police watchdog says there is no conflict of interest surrounding South Yorkshire Police investigating its own staff

Five grooming gang victims have come forward to claim that they were abused by police. One victim claimed she was raped from the age of 12 by a serving South Yorkshire Police officer who threatened to hand her back to her abusers if she did not comply.

South Yorkshire’s deputy mayor is urging any survivors of child sexual exploitation who have not yet come forward to do so, amid allegations that five police officers also sexually abused girls targeted by grooming gangs in Rotherham.

A new criminal investigation into the involvement of police officers in the Rotherham grooming scandal is now being l

Rotherham child sexual exploitation survivors have claimed they were abused by five South Yorkshire Police officers during the height of their abuse as children.

Five victims of grooming gangs in Rotherham have claimed that police officers also sexually abused them when they were children. One alleged that a serving South Yorkshire Police (SYP) officer raped her in a marked police car when she was 12,

Five victims of Rotherham child sexual exploitation (CSE) gangs have said they also experienced sexual abuse at the hands of police officers.