daveman
Diamond Member
The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural society
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillipsâ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.
A review of the abuse in Oldham was released in 2022, but its terms of reference only stretched from 2011-2014. Survivors from the town said that they wanted a government-led inquiry to cover a longer period, and catch what the previous review had missed. In Jess Phillipsâs letter to the council, revealed by GB News, she said she understood the strength of feeling in the town, but thought it best for another local review to take place.
This is a scandal that should be rooted out entirely, and investigated by the full might of the British state. Voices ranging from Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch have joined the calls for an inquiry. Yet the Government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.
This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
Over time, details have come to light about abuse in Rotherham, in Telford, in Rochdale and in dozens of other places. But with the stories released in dribs and drabs, and the details so horrific as to be almost unreadable, the full scale of the scandal has still to reach the public.
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As the 2014 Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found, children were âdoused in petrol and threatened with being set alightâ, âthreatened with gunsâ, âwitnessed brutally violent rapes and were threatened that they would be the next victim if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators, one after the otherâ.
In the same town, a senior police officer allegedly said the abuse had been âgoing onâ for 30 years, adding âwith it being Asians, we canât afford for this to be coming out.
As Louise Caseyâs 2015 report on Rotherham Council found, this attitude was widespread. The Pakistani community accounted for around 3 per cent of the townâs population, and the story emerging was clear: Pakistani men were grooming white girls. As a result, one witness said, the council was âterrified of [the impact on] community cohesionâ.
Across the town, pressure was put on people to âsuppress, keep quiet or cover upâ issues around child abuse. A former senior officer told her review that âx didnât want [the] town to become the child abuse capital of the north. They didnât want riots.â
Politicians were terrified [of the impact on] community cohesion. This nervousness meant that there was âa sense that it was the Pakistani heritage Councillors who alone âdealtâ with that communityâ, with their having a âdisproportionate influenceâ on the council: as one witness put it, â[my] experience of council as it was and is â Asian men very powerful, and the white British are very mindful of racism and frightened of racism allegations so there is no robust challengeâ. Other concerns may have been even more sinister. In 2016, it was reported that a victim of grooming in Rotherham had alleged that she was raped by a town councillor.
As a result of this combination of factors, the council went to great lengths to âcover up information and silence whistle-blowersâ. In the words of witnesses, âif you want to keep your job, you keep your head down and your mouth shutâ.
But as the report stated, âthe predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males⌠combined with the predominant victim profile of white females has the potential to cause significant community tensionsâ. As a result, the report remained unpublished until released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests five years later.
In Manchester, a 2019 report concluded gangs were left to roam the streets in part because officers were told to look elsewhere. One detective constable was quoted by a report as saying âthe offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicitiesâ.
Central government took a similar view. In 2020, the Home Office refused to release its research into grooming gangs, claiming that it would not be in the âpublic interestâ to do so. When it was finally released, it turned out to be a whitewash: a shoddy construction which appeared to deliberately downplay the clear role ethnicity had played in the phenomenon.
When people did try to raise the issue, they found themselves shouted down. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary into abuse in Bradford was delayed after police forces warned the evidence of âAsian men targeting young white girlsâ could inflame racial tensions.
One of the bleakest cover-ups emerged in Rochdale. Fifteen-year-old Victoria Agoglia, a vulnerable child in care, died in 2003 when 50-year-old Mohammed Yaqoob injected her with heroin. In the lead-up to her death, a review published last year found, she had given authorities information that she was âinvolved in sexual exploitation, alleged rape, and sexual assault requiring medical attentionâ. None resulted in her rescue. Across the town, girls as young as 12 were being raped by gangs.
When the first convictions in Rochdale were handed down in 2012, the police and Crown Prosecution Service apologised for failing to follow up on appeals for help. As former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer put it, the authorities âwere petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctnessâ. As a result, despite a child telling the police she had been raped, and providing DNA evidence, no prosecution was brought.
The sense that authorities believed that a full investigation would be more trouble than it was worth is widespread. Simon Danczuk, the former MP for Rochdale has said âsenior Labour politiciansâ warned him against discussing âthe ethnicity of the perpetrators, for fear of losing votesâ. Today, dozens of offenders are still believed to be at large in the community.
As the Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found in 2014, in at least two cases fathers tracked down their daughters and attempted to remove them from the houses where they were being abused.
The police arrested the fathers.
In other cases, child victims were arrested for âdrunk and disorderlyâ behaviour, rather than the adult men they were with. Small wonder that Jay found young people in the town believed police âdared not act against Asian youths for fear of allegations of racismâ.
The protection of offenders may have gone further still. In at least one case, when a victim found the courage to go to the police, their abuser appears to have been tipped off. While still in the police station, one child received a text from her abuser informing her that he had her 11-year-old sister, and that it was now âyour choiceâŚâ. The child chose not to go through with the complaint.
These stories cover only a small number of towns. The broader picture, however, is clear. The consequences are clear, too: no police officer or government employee has ever been imprisoned for their misconduct. Indeed, in Rotherham, the harshest sanctions faced by the police were written warnings.
Even offenders have managed to dodge some of the consequences for their actions. Despite being stripped of British citizenship, the leader of a Rochdale grooming gang still lives among his victims despite being ordered to be deported.
More in the article. Caution: There are descriptions of what the barbarians did to children. Read at your own risk.
Everyone involved in the decisions to protect the barbarians needs to be stripped in the public square and be horsewhipped. There is absolutely no good reason to sacrifice your children to barbarians.
And to the British members here, I don't want to hear any of your bullshit. This happened -- is STILL happening -- on an unbelievable scale.
Clean up your mess.
Safeguarding minister Jess Phillipsâ decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them.
A review of the abuse in Oldham was released in 2022, but its terms of reference only stretched from 2011-2014. Survivors from the town said that they wanted a government-led inquiry to cover a longer period, and catch what the previous review had missed. In Jess Phillipsâs letter to the council, revealed by GB News, she said she understood the strength of feeling in the town, but thought it best for another local review to take place.
This is a scandal that should be rooted out entirely, and investigated by the full might of the British state. Voices ranging from Elon Musk to Kemi Badenoch have joined the calls for an inquiry. Yet the Government seems curiously reluctant to dig into the failings of officials.
This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
Over time, details have come to light about abuse in Rotherham, in Telford, in Rochdale and in dozens of other places. But with the stories released in dribs and drabs, and the details so horrific as to be almost unreadable, the full scale of the scandal has still to reach the public.
-------------------
As the 2014 Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found, children were âdoused in petrol and threatened with being set alightâ, âthreatened with gunsâ, âwitnessed brutally violent rapes and were threatened that they would be the next victim if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators, one after the otherâ.
In the same town, a senior police officer allegedly said the abuse had been âgoing onâ for 30 years, adding âwith it being Asians, we canât afford for this to be coming out.
As Louise Caseyâs 2015 report on Rotherham Council found, this attitude was widespread. The Pakistani community accounted for around 3 per cent of the townâs population, and the story emerging was clear: Pakistani men were grooming white girls. As a result, one witness said, the council was âterrified of [the impact on] community cohesionâ.
Across the town, pressure was put on people to âsuppress, keep quiet or cover upâ issues around child abuse. A former senior officer told her review that âx didnât want [the] town to become the child abuse capital of the north. They didnât want riots.â
Politicians were terrified [of the impact on] community cohesion. This nervousness meant that there was âa sense that it was the Pakistani heritage Councillors who alone âdealtâ with that communityâ, with their having a âdisproportionate influenceâ on the council: as one witness put it, â[my] experience of council as it was and is â Asian men very powerful, and the white British are very mindful of racism and frightened of racism allegations so there is no robust challengeâ. Other concerns may have been even more sinister. In 2016, it was reported that a victim of grooming in Rotherham had alleged that she was raped by a town councillor.
As a result of this combination of factors, the council went to great lengths to âcover up information and silence whistle-blowersâ. In the words of witnesses, âif you want to keep your job, you keep your head down and your mouth shutâ.
Police failures
This resistance to an obvious truth repeated itself across the country. By 2010, a West Midlands Police report showed that authorities were aware that grooming gangs were approaching children at school gates.But as the report stated, âthe predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males⌠combined with the predominant victim profile of white females has the potential to cause significant community tensionsâ. As a result, the report remained unpublished until released in response to Freedom of Information (FOI) requests five years later.
In Manchester, a 2019 report concluded gangs were left to roam the streets in part because officers were told to look elsewhere. One detective constable was quoted by a report as saying âthe offending target group were predominantly Asian males and we were told to try and get other ethnicitiesâ.
Central government took a similar view. In 2020, the Home Office refused to release its research into grooming gangs, claiming that it would not be in the âpublic interestâ to do so. When it was finally released, it turned out to be a whitewash: a shoddy construction which appeared to deliberately downplay the clear role ethnicity had played in the phenomenon.
When people did try to raise the issue, they found themselves shouted down. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary into abuse in Bradford was delayed after police forces warned the evidence of âAsian men targeting young white girlsâ could inflame racial tensions.
One of the bleakest cover-ups emerged in Rochdale. Fifteen-year-old Victoria Agoglia, a vulnerable child in care, died in 2003 when 50-year-old Mohammed Yaqoob injected her with heroin. In the lead-up to her death, a review published last year found, she had given authorities information that she was âinvolved in sexual exploitation, alleged rape, and sexual assault requiring medical attentionâ. None resulted in her rescue. Across the town, girls as young as 12 were being raped by gangs.
When the first convictions in Rochdale were handed down in 2012, the police and Crown Prosecution Service apologised for failing to follow up on appeals for help. As former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer put it, the authorities âwere petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctnessâ. As a result, despite a child telling the police she had been raped, and providing DNA evidence, no prosecution was brought.
The sense that authorities believed that a full investigation would be more trouble than it was worth is widespread. Simon Danczuk, the former MP for Rochdale has said âsenior Labour politiciansâ warned him against discussing âthe ethnicity of the perpetrators, for fear of losing votesâ. Today, dozens of offenders are still believed to be at large in the community.
Attackers protected
While fears over racial tensions and political correctness have left the state frequently unwilling to protect victims, the same concerns have seen attackers protected.As the Jay Inquiry into Rotherham found in 2014, in at least two cases fathers tracked down their daughters and attempted to remove them from the houses where they were being abused.
The police arrested the fathers.
In other cases, child victims were arrested for âdrunk and disorderlyâ behaviour, rather than the adult men they were with. Small wonder that Jay found young people in the town believed police âdared not act against Asian youths for fear of allegations of racismâ.
The protection of offenders may have gone further still. In at least one case, when a victim found the courage to go to the police, their abuser appears to have been tipped off. While still in the police station, one child received a text from her abuser informing her that he had her 11-year-old sister, and that it was now âyour choiceâŚâ. The child chose not to go through with the complaint.
These stories cover only a small number of towns. The broader picture, however, is clear. The consequences are clear, too: no police officer or government employee has ever been imprisoned for their misconduct. Indeed, in Rotherham, the harshest sanctions faced by the police were written warnings.
Even offenders have managed to dodge some of the consequences for their actions. Despite being stripped of British citizenship, the leader of a Rochdale grooming gang still lives among his victims despite being ordered to be deported.
More in the article. Caution: There are descriptions of what the barbarians did to children. Read at your own risk.
Everyone involved in the decisions to protect the barbarians needs to be stripped in the public square and be horsewhipped. There is absolutely no good reason to sacrifice your children to barbarians.
And to the British members here, I don't want to hear any of your bullshit. This happened -- is STILL happening -- on an unbelievable scale.
Clean up your mess.
