By Shayla Papik —
The best police could do for a 12-year-old victim was offer her language lessons in Urdu and Punjabi, the language of her rapists. Meaning, they couldn’t investigate or arrest her abusers; they couldn’t protect her.
Over the course of two decades, an estimated 250,000 girls got taken advantage of by coordinated groups of men, many of whom were Pakistani, and the authorities did nothing to stop it.
“The police and council had turned a blind eye to the abuse or even blamed the raped girls,” says Charlie Peters of GB News.
“Several survivors described how, when they had the courage to go to the police, they were treated with contempt. staff across agencies tended to write off young people as ‘consenting’ to their own abuse, or choosing a ‘lifestyle’ which made them hard to help,” concluded Alexis Jay in her 2014 report.
Revelations of mass rapes with no police action emerged first in Rotherham, where at least 1,400 underage girls were abused from 1997 to 2013 in taxis and kebab shops. Girls were even held hostage in flats, plied with alcohol and drugs, and raped multiple times a day.
The rapists were all friends. They were mostly Pakistani.
Any race can have its evil predators. But Islam, both in scripture and in history, portrays women, especially non-Muslim women, as sex objects for men.
After Rotherham, grooming gangs were finally reported from Telford (more than 1,000 girls in 40 years), Oxfordshire (>360), Rochdale, Derby, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Oldham, Bristol and elsewhere. It wasn’t just an isolated location; the tragic phenomenon was nationwide.
Inquiries cited race as a principal reason police didn’t want to investigate.
“They were prioritizing social cohesion over the victims of actual crimes,” explains Wasiq Wasiq, a fellow at the Henry Jackson Society who himself is of South Asian heritage.
Also, the girls were viewed as unreliable witnesses, guilty of making their own poor choices, being from low society and even “consenting.”
In some of the towns, the perpetrators were well connected with local government, often the Labour Party.
“It was a systematic gang rape of hundreds of thousands of children,” says Raja Miah, one of the few council officials to blow the whistle on the scandal. The abusers were “equivalent of the mafia. These are politically connected gangsters, protected by the police, endorsed by politicians.”
In Rotherham, Jayne Senior was one of the first to realize these rapes were not isolated cases in the early 2000s. As a social worker, she helped girls who had been groomed, raped, trafficked, threatened and controlled by men. She connected the dots on the patterns and alerted officials. She gathered names, addresses, vehicle registrations and accounts of suspected abusers and passed information to police and other agencies. Her work met with “indifference and scorn,” she says.
Then investigative journalist Andrew Norfolk picked up on the scandal, and his reporting in The Times blew the lid off the scandal. Predators got jailed, and some officials were forced to resign, but very few senior police officers or politicians have faced serious personal consequences such as criminal prosecution.
Margaret Oliver was one of the cops who tried. She pushed investigations in Rochdale and Greater Manchester. As part of the 2004 Operation Augusta, she identified dozens of victims and 100s of suspects but ultimately resigned. The Greater Manchester Police, she said, weren’t investigating with the needed impetus.
At some point, police stopped collecting data on the ethnicity of the perpetrators. Despite having a Pakistani name, suspects were allowed to self-report as white, or cops did them a favor, for fear of stirring up racism, the Casey audit found.
After intense political pressure, Britain’s Labour Government finally commissioned a national inquiry into grooming gangs set to conclude in 2029. Of particular interest: Who knew what? When did they know it? Why weren’t warnings acted upon? Were institutions protecting themselves instead of children?
How could thousands of girls report abuse over decades and still be ignored?
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