The true horror of the Rotherham grooming scandal – and the shameful failure to stop it

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1. The scale is difficult to comprehend:

   > By 2018, the National Crime Agency inquiry into the scandal had identified 110 suspects, of whom 80 per cent were of Pakistani heritage. By 2022, more than 200 people had been arrested as suspects. If the same figure of 80 per cent held, that would mean 160 of the 200 suspects were of Pakstani heritage.

   > At the 2011 census, just 3 per cent of Rotherham’s population of 257,280 was of Pakistani heritage, with 2,529 Pakistani-heritage men over the age of 15. So 160 suspects would mean that **more than one in 16 Pakistani-heritage men who had lived in Rotherham in 2011 had been arrested as part of the inquiry into child abuse.**

   Previous figures showed 1 in 76 Pakistani-heritage men had been convicted of child abuse in Rotherham.

   There also will be many people in the community who did not commit crimes but were aware of it.

   According to the Jay report there were also 1500 victims at a conservative estimate, in a town of 100k people or a large metro area of 250k, how many teenage girls would there even have been in Rotherham during that time period? Bearing in mind also that the victims would have been predominantly working class, from their demographic you’re talking about a serious percentage who would have been victimised.

2. >When a 13-year-old girl was found at 3am, drunk in a derelict house with a large group of men, with “disrupted clothing”, she was arrested for a public order offence, detained, prosecuted and sentenced by a youth court. The men walked away free.

   So a police found a 13 year old girl with a a group of men and _she’s_ arrested? That tells you everything wrong with the police. They weren’t trying to “protect community cohesion”, if they were this poor girl wouldn’t be arrested. No they thought the girls “deserve it”, or called them “slags”. It’s systemic misogyny of the highest order, and that failed all the victims in Rotherham for decades.

3. Police, you have my permission to stop investigating my facebook comments and actually go do some policing.

4. The brutal truth that many refuse to believe is that these girls were failed, and many more could of been saved IF the Police and Social Services didn’t treat them so bad because of they came from poor backgrounds.

   If any of these girls had come from a middle class home or had they lived in a fairly decent town / city, they would of been listened to from the beginning.

   The reason why these gangs operated in places such Rotherham is because they knew that Police and Social Service didn’t give a shit.

   This is the why neither the Government of the Day, the Opposition or the Media talked about it and essentially buried the outcome of the enquires.

   People who have grown up and live in these places are well aware how little not only the Police, but various Government Agencies give a shit about them.

   What the Government, any Government can and will never do is openly admit to it as to do so would be cataclysmic for them.

5. There should be hundreds of people in jail, many deported, and many police, social workers and politicians I cell’s with them.

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