The following is based on a recent item in Yahoo News.
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An investigation has found that at least 1,400
children were exploited in the UK town of Rotherham*** between 1997 and
2013 and that there was a “collective failure” by authorities to
stop the abuse. The Rotherham Borough Council published a report
today which said that it is “hard to describe the appalling nature
of the abuse that child victims suffered”.
“They were raped by multiple perpetrators,
trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England,
abducted, beaten, and intimidated.”
The inquiry was launched last September to look at
how Rotherham Council’s children’s services department dealt with
cases involving child exploitation. The report gives examples of children who had been
doused in petrol, threatened with guns and made to watch brutally
violent rapes. The victims were told they “would be next if
they told anyone”.
Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers
of male perpetrators, the majority of whom were of Pakistani
heritage.
The independent investigation concluded that this
abuse is “not confined to the past but continues to this day”. The report says that over the first 12 years
covered by the Inquiry, there were “blatant collective failures”
of the political and officer leadership. The author, Professor Alexis
Jay, also said the council underplayed the scale of the problem and
that South Yorkshire Police failed to prioritise the issue.
This is the fourth report into the situation in
Rotherham.
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Why, do you think, were the local authorities and the police so reluctant to investigate this situation? Careful with your answer or you might be accused of being racist.
If this is the FOURTH report, the chances are that still nothing will be done. In the meantime, let's all have fun following the prurient accounts of the Yewtree pursuit of Cliff Richard, Freddy Starr and other geriatric celebrities, against most of whom no evidence has been produced.
***Sadly this kind of abuse is happening in several other UK cities. More here.
1 comment:
Jake, it is unspeakable! The fact that the accused people are all(I think) of one racial group has nothing to do with the criminality, the evil, the wrong, of the matter. Something must be done to apply the law of the land NOW!!!
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