From
The Conservative Woman:
The police have arrested 110 men in Rotherham. Of these, 18 have been
charged, two cautioned and four convicted and jailed. Thirty-four
investigations are continuing under the Operation Stovewood umbrella,
and six trials will take place later this year. Will the newly sanitised
Rotherham Social Services be featuring in any of these? Across the UK only 317 people
have been convicted in connection with organised grooming and sexual
abuse crimes. Other towns and cities involved include Keighley,
Blackpool, Oldham, Blackburn, Sheffield, Manchester, Skipton, Rochdale,
Nelson, Preston, Derby, Telford, Bradford, Ipswich, Birmingham, Oxford,
Barking and Peterborough.
The huge number of victims in Rotherham raises the question of how
many there really are elsewhere, and how many more rapists continue to
evade justice? In Rotherham, the National Crime Agency believes there
are still ‘a handful’ of high-risk abusers at large. Operation Sanctuary
in Newcastle is continuing to investigate grooming and sexual abuse
against 700 girls, and a report by barrister David Spicer into the
operation concludes that the grooming of girls for sexual exploitation
is still rife in the UK today. How is this still happening? In Rotherham, as in Rochdale and the other towns, the evidence points to a disproportionate number offenders being of a Pakistani background. Such gangs may have been operating in the UK since the 1980s, according to Peter McLoughlin in his book Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal.
The distinction between Pakistani grooming gangs, exploiting
vulnerable white girls, and white paedophile rings (characterised by
their longstanding sexual interest in children) has been established,
for example, in a report by the Quilliam Foundation.
Despite this, Britain’s top female police officer continues to
obfuscate the problem by not acknowledging the racial aspect of these
gangs.
Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick was asked at a recent
meeting of the London Assembly if she was concerned that the Met was
sitting on a Rotherham-style grooming gang epidemic in the capital. She
replied that she did not accept the characterisation that offenders were
mainly Asian or Muslim men, but that this type of problem has been ‘going on for centuries’. Not like this. Not on this scale, and not without the willingness of authorities to tackle it. (Read more.)
The Daily Mail reports on the Telford scandal:
A brutal sex gang raped as many as 1,000 young girls over 40 years in what may be Britain's 'worst ever' child abuse scandal. Girls
in the town of Telford, Shropshire, were drugged, beaten and raped at
the hands of a grooming gang active since the 1980s. Allegations
are said to have been mishandled by authorities, with many perpetrators
going unpunished, while it is claimed similar abuse continues in the
area, reports the
Sunday Mirror.
Home Office figures show there were 15.1 child sex crimes reported per 10,000 residents in the year to September 2015. Telford's population is 155,000 – meaning a potential 225 victims. Telford's
Conservative MP, Lucy Allan, has previously called for a
Rotherham-style inquiry into the allegations and called the latest
reports 'extremely serious and shocking'.
'There
must now be an independent inquiry into child sexual exploitation in
Telford so that our community can have absolute confidence in the
authorities,' she told the paper. A mother and four teenage girls have been linked to the allegations of abuse. Lucy
Lowe, 16, died alongside her mother and sister after the man who had
been abusing her, 26-year-old Azhar Ali Mehmood, set fire to their
house. (
Read more.)
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2 comments:
Are people more disturbed by the ethnicity of the perpetrators or the apparent lack of care England seems to show concerning it's lower class girls?
Good question, Dymphna. I think it's both. The ethnicity of the perpetrators has made the authorities timid about apprehending them for fear they will be called racist.
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