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A girl was urged not to complain about being raped as it would spoil the police doctor’s Sunday lunch, it has been claimed.

The 13-year-old was allegedly attacked by a gang of Asian men in scandal-hit Rotherham.

The mother alerted police after her daughter had come home drunk on a Saturday night in 2007, saying she had been with much older men.

At a hospital the following day two officers allegedly told them “a police doctor was having to come especially down the motorway and would miss his Sunday lunch if he had to come”.

After being pressed further, the 13-year-old said she did not want to do it any more and was taken home.

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The historical claim is one of 22 included in a dossier of allegations against police which has been handed to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

The mother has also told a TV documentary the hospital told her there was “no police officer coming down the motorway – our own doctor was going to examine her”.

A further complainant, 29, was sexually exploited from the age of 14.

She said she fears something “sinister” was happening within South Yorkshire Police.

“It’s not just people turn a blind eye,” she said. “There were people protecting them.”

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The women came forward after a report in August revealed there had been 1,400 victims of sexual exploitation in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.

The IPCC are investigating 14 officers in relation to the scandal.

So far 32 women have instructed lawyers to take action against Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police.

Of those, 22 have made serious complaints, including officers ripping up statements and failing to take action when underage girls were found in the back of cars with men.

South Yorkshire Police said: “We are committed to achieving justice, stopping the harm and preventing future offending.”