Majority being Pakis

In the long-running grooming-gangs scandal, we have seen the same story unfold, over and again, in towns across England.

Girls are abused, en masse, by gangs of largely Pakistani-origin men. When the authorities are made aware of this, they either fail to intervene or deliberately obscure the problem, putting political correctness or sectarian identity politics ahead of the safety of vulnerable children. There have been numerous investigations, reports and inquiries over recent years, each pointing to exactly the same problem. Yet have any lessons really been learned? And have those in positions of authority really been held accountable? 

An investigation by GB News documentary filmmaker Charlie Peters has revealed that a former councillor who was implicated in Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council’s mismanagement of group-based child sexual abuse – Mahroof Hussain – is now working in a senior ‘diversity and inclusion’ role in the NHS.

Rotherham, in South Yorkshire, is at the heart of England’s grooming-gangs crisis. In 2012, The Times revealed that a confidential internal 2010 police report had warned that vast numbers of underaged girls were being sexually exploited in Rotherham each year by organised networks of men ‘largely of Pakistani heritage’. South Yorkshire Police and local child-protection agencies were shown to have had knowledge of widespread, organised child sexual abuse, but they failed to act on it.

In 2013, an independent inquiry, led by Professor Alexis Jay, was launched. Her subsequent report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, published in 2014, made for grim reading. It found that at least 1,400 children had been subjected to appalling forms of group-based sexual exploitation between 1997 and 2013. The report detailed how girls as young as 11 had been intimidated, trafficked, abducted, beaten and raped by men predominantly of Pakistani origin.