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and, the shamrock of. northern ireland. tv online and dab pass radio. this is a jibe . news. radio. this is a jibe. news. i'll be back with more of your latest news headlines at . 9:00 latest news headlines at. 9:00 the following programme includes descriptions of child exploitation and trafficking . exploitation and trafficking. the content may be upsetting , the content may be upsetting, for some viewers . a decade ago , people in britain a decade ago, people in britain woke up to shocking news in the small town of rotherham. 1400 young girls had been groomed abused, trafficked and raped. i can't tell you how many rapes

had. and i want to see chief constables. i want to see senior officials held legal to account for their neglect duty. when i was still 14. andrea took to the promenade in the town where we met the pakistani kebab house workers . and then five or six of workers. and then five or six of them gang raped me, all locked that ten weeks. the abuse had gone on for decades , and nobody gone on for decades, and nobody responsible had been punished. the police and council had turned a blind eye to the abuse or even blamed the raped girls that we saw each day in 2022 . that we saw each day in 2022. and not one person as ever , held and not one person as ever, held accountable. what happened in this town .7 most of the victims this town.7 most of the victims were white. most of the abusers were white. most of the abusers were ethnically pakistani. fears of being seen as racist at it contributed to a cover up. they were failing them because they were failing them because they were priority housing, social cohesion over the victims of actual crimes . over the actual crimes. over the following years similar emerged across the nation of underage

girls abused taxis, kebab shops and housing estates . there were and housing estates. there were three kebab houses in the town and they all knew each other and they linked up when they raped me. they were all linked . but me. they were all linked. but some have said that the story has been overblown, even that it's racist. people in positions of authority have always been frightened of being called racist. the racial dynamics are irrefutable . there's always been irrefutable. there's always been tiptoeing that fact . my name is tiptoeing that fact. my name is charlie peters . i'm a journalist charlie peters. i'm a journalist and documentary filmmaker with gb news. and i want to know why this happened, why the authorities did so to stop it, and whether it is still going on today. to find out the truth about the grooming gang scandal, i had to

go back to the beginning . it go back to the beginning. it started with a journalist at the times called andrew norfolk. he first encountered the grooming gangsin first encountered the grooming gangs in 2003 when labour ann cryer revealed local concerns about asian men targeting teenage girls outside gates. he admitted later that a story about minorities targeting white girls felt like a far right fantasy . liberal guilt kicked fantasy. liberal guilt kicked in, so he wrote one story and dropped it . in, so he wrote one story and dropped it. but over in, so he wrote one story and dropped it . but over the years, dropped it. but over the years, he kept encountering similar stories. his conscience knocked him. and in 2010, he began to research court records . what he research court records. what he found was a pattern abusers would meet girls in public places. they would give them gifts or take them out to joyrides until they felt like the man was their boyfriend. then they'd give them alcohol or drugs and rape them . often they drugs and rape them. often they trafficked girls between their family and friends to be raped

by them, to the girls were mostly white. the abusers mainly . when andrew norfolk approached the authorities they all refused to speak to him. finally he found a group who would speak to him. they were called risky business, and they were based in rotherham. i went there to meet jane senior, the former of the youth project, and the whistleblower who exposed the scandal . my name is jane senior scandal. my name is jane senior . i'm currently the chief executive charity mother and covers lots of different areas. i've been a youth worker for most of my life and ended my career . rotherham most of my life and ended my career. rotherham borough council and managed a project that was called risky business project, the predominantly way with girls that were involved in child sexual exploitation. jane helped norfolk get hold of the serious case review for the murder of laura wilson, aged just. she'd been stabbed 40 times by x boyfriend ashcroft

after she told his family about their relationship . her body was their relationship. her body was thrown in a canal and she was described as the white victim of an honour killing. but the review revealed that laura had been groomed and abused pakistani men from an early with an iq of just 58. she'd been failed by 15 different agencies responsible her care rotherham council's the reports then threatened to use a high court injunction to stop the publication of uncensored extracts . jane said that the extracts. jane said that the council to present laura as the victim of an honour killing rather than admit that she'd been groomed risky business had been groomed risky business had been set up to help local women at risk of exploitation . they at risk of exploitation. they soon found that laura's case not in isolation. gangs were systematically targeting underage girls in rotherham. the gangs were organised and violent . 115 year old girl was sexually assaulted with a broken bottle . assaulted with a broken bottle. the 13 year old was found drinking vodka in a house full

of men after neighbours . her of men after neighbours. her screams even when risky business reported the abuse to the authorities nothing done but they did offer a 12 year old victim language lessons in the punjabi and urdu. used by her abusers to find out what that was , i needed to speak to one of was, i needed to speak to one of the victims or i think it all started . when i started for started. when i started for school. actually talk and bullied. i met this female on the street and cursed while she was really 30 years older than myself. naively, i stopped going to a flat and. and after a while and all. not enough time . weeks. and all. not enough time. weeks. the woman who lured elizabeth to the flat was a person of interest to the police . she was interest to the police. she was known by up to four different aliases . she known by up to four different aliases. she had once set up a fake rape crisis centre and a fake rape crisis centre and a fake hotline to lure children

into sexual . but the police into sexual. but the police failed to stop her. in fact, they let her continue to work for taxi firms in rotherham, actually trying to set up a cab company for taking children to school. she started drinking males. they are that's obviously when things started happening develops and things like it were absolutely horrendous . she was absolutely horrendous. she was having control over manipulative. i was given quite a lot erm alcohol . yeah. i were a lot erm alcohol. yeah. i were intoxicated than i was sober to be honest. it was the same thing every, every day. every day. it was so like getting up, getting drunk . the was so like getting up, getting drunk. the mancunian on that . drunk. the mancunian on that. then it's like during her horrifying ordeal , elizabeth horrifying ordeal, elizabeth came to the attention of risky business, a rotherham council youth project managed by senior. i had a database where we had intelligence that we would put

intelligence that we would put in there on a daily basis, and i'd get lots of things that were said to me and a number meetings such as these children were consenting . they were making consenting. they were making informed choices . they were informed choices. they were returning to their abusers . they returning to their abusers. they wouldn't make a good witness if it went to court. and also jail and we were breaching a human rights issue , but it was never rights issue, but it was never the human rights of the children . it was the human rights of the perpetrators. elizabeth's abusers were all linked. one of them was the uncle of one of the town's most prolific rapist. i never left the building . the never left the building. the floor fabric artwork for a 14 year old. i can't tell you how many tips i've had despite the known links between rapists . known links between rapists. south yorkshire police failed to act every time anybody came into act every time anybody came into a senior role . we kind of a senior role. we kind of thought, this is it now. something's going to happen, something's going to change. so i've seen of meetings and i would share all the information

as my staff warned, and i'm we had car registration numbers, names nicknames and properties. if concerned and so we kind of collected a raft , that collected a raft, that information that we kept and we information that we kept and we in a database and we got lots of reasons and people still say to me today, why did they actually do nothing .7 and i can't give you do nothing? and i can't give you the absolute answer to that. all i can tell you is what they said at the time. the children were consenting. the children would make good witnesses if they went to court . but make good witnesses if they went to court. but elizabeth's suffering consensual. she suffering was consensual. she was being exploited by ruthless gang of rapists. was being exploited by ruthless gang of rapists . elizabeth took gang of rapists. elizabeth took me back to the flat, where she was kept and abused for ten weeks. eventually she freed. but it wasn't the police that rescued her. it was risky business. i walked out of that five and a half store , um, low five and a half store, um, low to mark's . with just a skeleton

to mark's. with just a skeleton . i carried out a well. my childhood had been stolen . the childhood had been stolen. the police had multiple opportunities to investigate. the woman who lured elizabeth to the flat. they knew that she was a facilitator of child sexual exploitation. but they failed to act . they keep saying it's act. they keep saying it's a missed opportunity. i don't think so . i missed opportunity. i don't think so. i got missed opportunity. i don't think so . i got away with murder think so. i got away with murder . elizabeth story didn't end . . elizabeth story didn't end. she was rescued from the flat . she was rescued from the flat. she was rescued from the flat. she had been freed , but her she had been freed, but her nightmare continued . in clifton nightmare continued. in clifton park really was a central point to get getting drunk manager being around all the time. be all sorts going off in the park . it was one of the biggest hotspots in work for people in describe grooming. it's like a postcard , whatever. so once postcard, whatever. so once everybody once got the number, everybody's got the number. just man ringing all the time.

everybody's got the number. just man ringing all the time . you man ringing all the time. you know, the phone it be going off like . what, 30 to 50 times like. what, 30 to 50 times a day? we're different people from different areas. some of these children as adults are still living with the absolute emotional trauma that nobody believed them and nobody acted . believed them and nobody acted. the most common thing that we were told is these children were lying because their stories were so far fetched. they had to be lies . these were children that lies. these were children that might have, you know, petrol powered. and then being trafficked to being gang and. how did children lie about? so how have the gangs been able to get away with it for so long? some of the evidence pointed directly at council

in 2000. taxi driver jahangir in 2000. taxi driverjahangir akhtar facilitated a deal between police officer hassan and career criminal arshad

hussain . all it had kidnapped hussain. all it had kidnapped and raped a girl of 14. he agreed . hand her over to the agreed. hand her over to the police at a petrol station in return, the police wouldn't arrest him a few months later, taxi driver jahangir , a labour taxi driverjahangir, a labour councillor . over the years he councillor. over the years he would rise to become the deputy leader of the council and vice chair of the police and crime panel chair of the police and crime panel, which oversaw all south yorkshire police . more evidence yorkshire police. more evidence incompetence by local authorities was uncovered when journalist andrew norfolk saw a series of reports . from 2001 to series of reports. from 2001 to 2006. they the activities of grooming gangs rotherham. one of those reports was written by solicitor adele with who was asked to conduct a home office on child prostitution based in the risky business offices. but what she found was an abuse centred around arshad hussain.

she found at least 270 victims, 18 of them named though she is their supposed boyfriend . their supposed boyfriend. despite collecting the names of , suspects and details on their crimes , the police failed to act crimes, the police failed to act , even though the rapists were also dealing drugs. so no longer was it risky business. the youth workers saying you, the children saying it, and now somebody that would been paid to actually review the police , the council review the police, the council files and risk files and health files and risk files and health files actually put together a report to say this is happening in 2001. adel with a young girl who'd been raped to report it to the police . yeah. so one of our the police. yeah. so one of our children just made the decision. she couldn't take it anymore. she couldn't take it anymore. she didn't know. and she was willing to speak to the police. so adel made the that she'd actually take to the police and supported speaking to supported throughout speaking to the police while at the police station. main abuser contacted

her to say that he had her 11 year old sister. her to say that he had her 11 year old sister . the her to say that he had her 11 year old sister. the gang had already broken her brother's legs. frightened she dropped the complaint saying . you can't complaint saying. you can't protect me . how? the abuser protect me. how? the abuser found out that she was the police station has never been explained . when adel will explained. when adel will complain to the police, she was told to never do it again. adel wrote a letter to the chief constable and we ended being called in to rotherham police station and spent about an hour being tried to not schoolgirls, while the district commander and all the people were in the room just shouted at us and said it was inappropriate . people like was inappropriate. people like us didn't write chief constables deter victims from accessing support wasn't the only way that justice was obstructed. where risky business were based and accessing our office was nigh on impossible. we files that went missing. the laptop and the computer never went missing and

just a jealous paperwork. and also . and some minutes of a also. and some minutes of a meeting. adel, a detained . it meeting. adel, a detained. it had been changed to a different day on the computer. who was responsible? has been explained with the risky business security procedures . the breach had all procedures. the breach had all the hallmarks of an inside job. the intruder was almost certainly someone working for rotherham council. following her revelation . adel was suspended , revelation. adel was suspended, then barred from conducting further research or meeting victims until her contract ended . one council official told her never to refer to asian men in her report and booked her on a two day equality and diversity course . talk about not liking course. talk about not liking the contents of a report. so rather than act on information in the report , go for the writer in the report, go for the writer . abandoned by those sworn to

protect them . the fathers of protect them. the fathers of some victims took matters into their own hands , only to find their own hands, only to find themselves being blocked by the authorities while the rapists went unpunished . i met with jack went unpunished. i met with jack , elizabeth's father , who tried , elizabeth's father, who tried to rescue her from ten weeks of hell from a doctor's worker to explain what had gone off. she told me not go back to the flat. i said, no i'm going, i've got to go and i'll turn around. and ihave to go and i'll turn around. and i have had stick over this. ask him why does a father leave his child in an alleyway if she's being abused . she said, well, it being abused. she said, well, it is . if elizabeth being abused. she said, well, it is. if elizabeth or any of being abused. she said, well, it is . if elizabeth or any of the is. if elizabeth or any of the girls in that flat and not in that flat saw the and you'll go in whether are you're putting them at risk and i mean what do you mean at this joint service arm even death. you're going to

risk getting your daughter killed and other people's daughters killed . continued daughters killed. continued revelations about rod, the outraged public . keir starmer, outraged public. keir starmer, then director public prosecutions, said a generation of girls had been failed under pressure. rotherham commissioned social worker alexis jay to lead an inquiry. it found that a conservative of 1400 girls in rotherham had been raped two decades by the gangs . it rotherham had been raped two decades by the gangs. it found the council and police had turned a blind eye. also confirmed that most of the abusers were pakistani. despite making up only 3% of the town's population , there are also local population, there are also local pakistani girls who were abused , but they often refused to speak to the police for fear of damaging their marriage prospects. in the aftermath of the report , many of the the report, many of the council's leaders resigned . the council's leaders resigned. the inquiry was on the front page of ten british newspapers and news

worldwide . and we all know that worldwide. and we all know that day in august 2014, when alexis chase and report came out, eight weren't even national news . it weren't even national news. it weren't even national news. it were international, it were worldwide . and the kind of the worldwide. and the kind of the worldwide. and the kind of the world up to what we now probably known as the worst childhood news scandal in the modern. with the council in disgrace , the the council in disgrace, the government commissioned civil servant louise casey to investigate the 2015 casey report. discover it. a council in denial , report. discover it. a council in denial, refusing to believe that 1400 girls in the town had been abused. the report blames political correctness for the council's failures. statistics on ethnicity were removed . on ethnicity were removed. pakistani taxi drivers were described as men of a certain ethnicity engaged in a particular occupation . despite particular occupation. despite reports going back to the 1990s, only one gang had been convicted

in 2010 with the help of risky business. it was called operation central . what happened operation central. what happened then is they called a meeting to discuss the concerns that had raised a police officer that was there and it was only a young police officer. he decided put all this intelligence together , all this intelligence together, put it all on to the police and take it to a sergeant . i met take it to a sergeant. i met with his sergeant rupert django. i think his problems also hero rupert chang's saw five men convicted but 80 suspects had been identified . clearly, the been identified. clearly, the police needed to push on, but they didn't. throughout that we was told the central to would come straight off the central and then as soon as central wanted ended we were told there no more resources which you resource intensive and that was it. but we could have done so much more. why did the police and council fail to on with their success. cases report suggested a widespread culture

of denial and ignorance. social accepted it as normal . the accepted it as normal. the underage girls were taking drugs being made to give sexual services and having pregnancies or abortions of 113 year old give an alcohol and abused they wrote. she needs more appropriate friends and interests fill her time. the parents eventually had to move overseas to escape the menace of their gang tormentors . after the their gang tormentors. after the report's release in 2015, more were finally made or hussain, the rapist who handed over an abused girl pc hassan ali at a petrol station was convicted with his three brothers and, his uncle as well as two white women in lurgan close to their homes and pimps them out to the rapists . on the day that pc ali rapists. on the day that pc ali was told he was under police investigation, he was run over and killed by a family friend . and killed by a family friend. any investigation into his alleged criminality died with him . the national crime agency

him. the national crime agency also launched an ongoing into historic abuse in the largest in their history so far they have identified 1510 victims and hundreds of abusers. identified 1510 victims and hundreds of abusers . another 20 hundreds of abusers. another 20 men have been convicted for their crimes. in rotherham alone . the casey report singled dallas councillor jahangir akhtar for his malign influence after he arranged a handover of the raped girl at the petrol station . the labour party forced station. the labour party forced him to resign . years later, his him to resign. years later, his daughter was a job at a council funded charity giving her access to a database with confidential information on grooming gang victims . there was no suggestion victims. there was no suggestion that she did anything wrong, but victims said there was a potential conflict of interest . potential conflict of interest. after the casey report revealed council failures, an investor gafion council failures, an investor gation into the police was launched by the independent police complaints commission. they found that the father of a girl who was raped in clifton

park and suffered internal injuries was told by a police officer that he hoped it would teach her lesson. they found that police officers finding , that police officers finding, girls in bed with older men or in the middle of a sex act to do anything . worried parents were anything. worried parents were told that having an asian boyfriend was just a fashion accessory. their daughters would grow out of. there were 265 allegation of misconduct with 91 investigations involving seven officers. of those , only five officers. of those, only five suffered any penalties . nobody suffered any penalties. nobody was fined to find out why nobody in the police had been punished, i went to see the only whistleblower to resign from the police over the rape gangs. cover up

my my name is charlie peters. i'm a journalist and documentary filmmaker, gb news. and i'm investigator chasing the national grooming gangs scandal

. we've seen what happened in rotherham, where over 1500 girls were sexually exploited. i want to know why the police looked the other way. despite years of evidence , i couldn't get any evidence, i couldn't get any answers . all i was told was that answers. all i was told was that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute . i was raped over to prosecute. i was raped over a thousand times and i don't even know how many men assaulted me. it's impossible to recall . it it's impossible to recall. it was just so constant . to was just so constant. to understand why they failed so badly . i'm understand why they failed so badly. i'm going to understand why they failed so badly . i'm going to manchester. badly. i'm going to manchester. rochdale. a similar scandal place on with the only whistle blower to resign from the police . the grooming gangs cover up . . the grooming gangs cover up. when 2004 i was approached and asked to join to go on board with them a job that became known as operation augusta. and this was we had a young a little

girl who had died in rochdale , girl who had died in rochdale, who had been groomed, sexually abused. who had been groomed, sexually abused . i was asked to go on an abused. i was asked to go on an investigation to look at whether we had a problem in manchester with young white children being groomed and sexually abuse raised by gangs of pakistani men. greater manchester did have a problem with grooming gangs. the girl who died victoria agoglia, was 15 years old when in thousand and three she was groomed by a rape gang and then killed by heroin , given to her killed by heroin, given to her by an abuser . we had dozens by an abuser. we had dozens young, very vulnerable children , who were mainly and while they were all living in care , who were all living in care, who were all living in care, who were being systematically groomed and raped by gangs of pakistani men . over 18 months, pakistani men. over 18 months, mccarthy and her team compiled a compelling case against the gangs they knew were operating in rochdale. but she had to take a break from the investigation when her husband fell terminally

ill. and at that point, we had. a hundred files on a database that we knew were raping children. we had about three dozen children that we identified as being abused . so identified as being abused. so that job was a singing and dancing major investigation . dancing major investigation. know my job was done and i off work content and happy to know that those men were going to be prosecuted . but when mackie prosecuted. but when mackie returned from compassionate leave after the death of her husband she found the operation augusta had been closed . none of augusta had been closed. none of the abusers were convicted. i couldn't get any answers. all was told was that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute . and i knew because prosecute. and i knew because i had been working on that job from , day one. i knew we had the from, day one. i knew we had the evidence, the last information

placed on the police database for the was on the 6th of july 2005. one day before the 77 terror attacks in london, there was a gold level meeting within , gmp. and that means the senior officers in gmp say that they had a meeting and that the decision was made at that meeting, that they were not prepared, put resources into that, invested . was it shut down that, invested. was it shut down because revealing the grooming gangs just after an islamist attack was considered too incendiary? we'll know because those minutes were conveniently lost years later . those minutes were conveniently lost years later. maggie was brought back in for a new operation to tackle the gangs gangs.i operation to tackle the gangs gangs . i was really keen 2010 gangs. i was really keen 2010 and asked to, go on board a case in rochdale which became known as operation span. but he was asked to join the team to gain the trust of a young girl called ruby, who aged 12, had been raped by known adeel khan when

she was just 13. had been made pregnant by that mum . and the pregnant by that mum. and the police at the time, which had been two years previous to that , had seized a foetus. been two years previous to that , had seized a foetus . but , had seized a foetus. but despite having the frozen foetus and the dna needed to prove the identity of ruby's rapist , adeel identity of ruby's rapist, adeel khan was not charged rape. ruby you know, we had a foetus we knew who had made her pregnant. but the authorities failed to protect . the school's new social protect. the school's new social services knew the police knew . services knew the police knew. and even though all knew, even we had dna , even though we knew we had dna, even though we knew who was responsive , that man was who was responsive, that man was still charged with rape . ruby still charged with rape. ruby suffering extend it to her family . she had a sister, amber family. she had a sister, amber , who had also become a victim of the rape gangs. amber had been arrested as a child of 15 and on suspicion being a madam.

i was asked to , gain her trust i was asked to, gain her trust and ask her to tell us what would to identify the to tell us of the location as the phone numbers . one of the location as the phone numbers. one of of the location as the phone numbers . one of those locations numbers. one of those locations was an address in fallon where there was a house with a list on there was a house with a list on the back of the door with about 20 names on it. the back of the door with about 20 names on it . abusers could 20 names on it. abusers could take girls to pass them around to be raped by multiple men and then leave a tick by their names to show that they'd used the rape house at the end of the week or month. they'd pay their bill for using it. it was like a honesty box . despite the scale honesty box. despite the scale of the crimes, the trial was limited and just nine men were convicted . the lead defendant convicted. the lead defendant said , objected to being tried by said, objected to being tried by an all jury . the same man had an all jury. the same man had once forced a 15 year old girl to have sex his nephew as a birthday present. by 2017, all but two of the nine were out of prison. having been released

halfway through their sentences .four halfway through their sentences . four of them had also been granted millions pounds in legal aid to fight deportation . the aid to fight deportation. the victims have live with their abusers walking around as free men . they see them in the men. they see them in the street. they them at work. they see them in the supermarket . see them in the supermarket. both rotherham and rochdale are similar in and history. former towns in the north of england . towns in the north of england. but this national scandal scarred towns and cities , all scarred towns and cities, all descriptions across the country . my investigation took me to telford and leafy shropshire the welsh border where child sexual exploitation scandal had emerged . it's here that an inquiry in 2022 found the 1000 girls have been abused by the gangs since the 1980s. much of the worst abuse happened in the suburb of

wellington. children were sold for sex and are raped. and some council workers reacted by saying that child prostitution had always happened . the gangs had always happened. the gangs here often threatened their victims with memory of lucy lowe, who aged just 15, was burned to death with . her burned to death with. her mother, sister and on child by her abuser . mother, sister and on child by her abuser. to find out why, telford council had also failed to act , i spoke to telford council had also failed to act, i spoke to samantha smith , a child abuse victim from smith, a child abuse victim from , the town. i remember when i was 16, my social worker told me that if you were physically abused. why would any bruises and that perfectly up how i was treated by those in positions power. the ignorance and victim blaming that was subjected to from telford social workers was eerily similar to the culture exposed by the reports into rotherham borough council. the culture was exactly the same as

the idea that girls like me was somehow responsible for the abuse. we the council here didn't just turn a blind eye. it was incompetent . teams failed to was incompetent. teams failed to share information . staffing share information. staffing issues meant that there were never enough people to do the work, and the council tried to close down a child abuse unit, citing austerity . but political citing austerity. but political correctness played role here, too. when teachers confessed that there was a problem in this authority with pakistani youths abusing girls, they were accused of being racist by a council worker . detailed reports weren't worker. detailed reports weren't shared over fears that they could start a race riot. i spoke to another of child abuse in telford , emily, not her real, telford, emily, not her real, prefers not to appear on camera, but these are her words spoken by an actor at college , i met by an actor at college, i met andrea, who was a little bit older, and she introduced me to local pakistani men who worked in the kebab house in my town in southway. we would just go to the house where we would receive

free, free, drink free, free alcohol. it was all just a treat for us, which we loved as young girls. when was still 14, andrea took me to the promenade in the town where we met the pakistani kebab house workers . and then kebab house workers. and then five or six of them gang raped me. i knew three of them from the kebab house. but the others i'd never met before . there were i'd never met before. there were three kebab houses in the town and they all knew each other and they linked up when they raped me. they all linked. we were trafficked to telford hereford , trafficked to telford hereford, blackpool. i was 14 and 15. dufing blackpool. i was 14 and 15. during this period when i was raped and trafficked . my mum was raped and trafficked. my mum was so happy that i'd found friends, but she had no idea what was going on. just i'd found in rotherham and rochdale the gangs of abusers use the boyfriend model of exploitation to lure in their victims . while abusers their victims. while abusers threatened bright and violated me, they were also kind. but it

would change. they called us goree girls white, white slag . goree girls white, white slag. when i eventually got my police records back, there are hundred to 300 pages about how i'd been strangled, threatened with a knife . someone was sent to patch knife. someone was sent to patch my house. i was raped over a thousand times and i don't even know how many men assaulted me. it just a thing that happened to us. and it might sound crazy, but it was just normal. it felt normal. it's all we knew. emily suffering represents one story in a much wider pattern of abuse. this crisis was not isolated to a few towns. it had the country . reports from the country. reports from rotherham, rochdale , telford rotherham, rochdale, telford were joined by stories . dozens were joined by stories. dozens of other towns and cities . this of other towns and cities. this national required a national response

my my name is charlie pieces and i am a journalist and document filmmaker with gb news. we've heard about how the police and councils failed victims , but councils failed victims, but what did the government in 2018? home secretary sajid javid announced the home office review into grooming gangs. it was a big moment . a british muslim big moment. a british muslim minister was brave enough to look at whether pakistan women really were overrepresented abusers . but really were overrepresented abusers. but in really were overrepresented abusers . but in the aftermath of abusers. but in the aftermath of the windrush scandal, the department was hypersensitive about race , did its best to about race, did its best to block the report's . it took block the report's. it took hundred and 30,000 signing a petition for it to be released. but the was a whitewash . it but the was a whitewash. it limply concluded that collection on ethnicity was so that it was impossible to . know the truth. impossible to. know the truth. rather improve data collection. it that the majority of abusers were white. however, the report it based that on found that 30%

of abusers were white and 28% were asian. despite making up 85% of the population and asians , just 8. clearly asians were vastly overrepresented in this kind of child abuse. being over three times more likely to be an abuser . but three times more likely to be an abuser. but the report didn't it? however it did find space to say that racial bias could be to blame. the prominence of pakistanis in the national conversation about grooming gangs. more recently a national crime agency cited a study which found that pakistanis dominated grooming gang statistics by comparing the number prosecutions to the overall . it prosecutions to the overall. it showed that one in every 2200 muslim men over 16 in england and wales have been prosecuted for this crime . from 1997 to for this crime. from 1997 to 2017. when it came to pakistan, it was one in 1700. in rochdale one in 280 muslim males over , 16

one in 280 muslim males over, 16 were prosecuted . in telford . it were prosecuted. in telford. it was one in 126 in rotherham , one was one in 126 in rotherham, one in 73. the report pointed out that many abusers take no responsibility for their crimes , plead not guilty . they take no , plead not guilty. they take no responsibility because they can get away with it when they return from their limited punishments. the community often does not ostracise them , and as does not ostracise them, and as these figures show , with such these figures show, with such high rates of prosecute the crimes can't have been a secret . this lack of responsibility and community punishment has been linked to clannish attitudes . british, pakistanis . attitudes. british, pakistanis. to learn more, i down with was quizzing a british pakistani muslim researcher. i think there is a culture within some of these british pakistani communities where the

perpetrators feel that to white working class girls do not equal the same as those their own community. when ruby was interviewed in her interview, she said and in evidence that she said and in evidence that she had been chosen by this man because she was a white girl and these men wanted , a white girl these men wanted, a white girl to abuse. she also talked of the passing her around in a circle , passing her around in a circle, though she was a bull with a circle of pakistani abusers who go into a flat and they would use that flat for the night. they take one white girl into that flat and they would all abuse the. but many people were desperate . blur the lines. one desperate. blur the lines. one of the ways they ensured the focus was not put on british pakistanis was through the use of the umbrella term , which of the umbrella term, which deflected away from the sad reality . i deflected away from the sad reality. i think deflected away from the sad reality . i think the term asian reality. i think the term asian isn't always appropriate when we

do look at again the demographic of perpetrators we are seeing that they're mostly british pakistanis. i know that these gangs are often referred as asian grooming gangs. i would always say, well, i have to come across anyone from thailand or japan or china who are in these grooming gangs. they are predominantly pakistani , predominantly pakistani, british, muslim men , and that is british, muslim men, and that is racist. it is a fact . if the racist. it is a fact. if the police councils , government and police councils, government and the media had to confront the stark truth about the grooming gangs , the abuse of thousands of gangs, the abuse of thousands of girls could have been avoided. failing to accept these facts has allowed hundreds, if not thousands of abusers to hide behind the veil of political correctness. we've seen some british pakistanis who have been a reluctant to deal with this issue and have been in absolute denial that this issue is taking place . the reason why is because place. the reason why is because they don't want to bring shame on their own family. i think the

racial of this particular kind of sexual abuse have meant that it has not been desc in the way it has not been desc in the way it should have been in the media because people in positions of authority have always been frightened of being called racist. with this kind of crime, it is irrefutable in my experience from . all the cases experience from. all the cases that i have dealt with that the vast majority of the cases in these cases are pakistani . these cases are pakistani. political correctness doesn't mean good manners. it consequences . and one of those consequences. and one of those consequences. and one of those consequences was the abandonment of thousands of girls to years of thousands of girls to years of abuse , for fear that tackling of abuse, for fear that tackling the problem would look racist, even now there are those who deny the awkward with the independent into child sex abuse . the issue in 2022. they looked at areas where grooming gangs not been found . rotherham was not been found. rotherham was mentioned only once in 400

pages. it found the police was still regularly failing to collect data on ethnicity . a collect data on ethnicity. a home office spokesperson said that it home office spokesperson said thatitis home office spokesperson said that it is now for police forces to record the ethnicity of those arrested . telford and wrekin arrested. telford and wrekin council said that after inquiry into child sexual abuse in the town, the council immediately all of the recommendations and that they subsequently improved . rotherham council said they were profoundly sorry for the pain this has caused and that care for the most vulnerable children has been transformed. since 2014 and is now of a good quality south yorkshire deputy chief constable tim fauber said that they had listened . the that they had listened. the voices of those affected and learned the lessons of the past and that they would act quickly to safeguard those most at risk . west mercia police said that significant improvements have been made and that they continue to improve and develop our understanding great amongst the

police did not respond . our police did not respond. our request for comment. i don't smoke drink or do drugs and i've escaped that life. i have a daughter, but the men raped me in telford and south wales are still living that, still working they're still running the kebab houses. they're still running the kebab houses . my life was ripped to houses. my life was ripped to shreds , but those have barely shreds, but those have barely changed. i think it's still a problem throughout the country. you know, rotherham is not unique . we've not got an unique. we've not got an electric fence around and this is happening everywhere . every is happening everywhere. every town every city. and i think town in every city. and i think you there's a lot of things can be done and i think it's got to start government level. they made the judgement that these didn't matter and children more than any other children needed somebody to fight that corner and yet they would just left high and dry. and i want to see chief constables , i want to see chief constables, i want to see senior officials held legally to account for their neglect of duty, because if that was me as an ordinary constable who would not record did a criminal

damage, i would be facing disciplinary action and probably a prosecution. so why are they any different? i'm still i don't even know if the work's angry. i think the worst and probably shocked that we sit here today in 2022 and not one person said, as ever being held accountable for what happened in this town , for what happened in this town, ever even when the evidence proves without a shadow of a doubt, they knew about it what would be normal were the rapes , would be normal were the rapes, the abuse , older men being the abuse, older men being passed off as old boyfriends to children . it would normalised , children. it would normalised, you know they stole through that i know of now i don't that there were victims because they're still in that mindset of the it were normal it were a part growing up this is going on today we've approached by 60 victims in the last three days

who are currently being failed by the police it is not historical problem it is going on today . very little has on today. very little has changed. we have seen trials , changed. we have seen trials, but all too these children are still being judged and fobbed off and that is not good enough . the grooming gang scandal has now dragged on for decades . now dragged on for decades. despite the prosecutions , most despite the prosecutions, most abusers have still . justice in abusers have still. justice in rotherham, where the national crime now says 1510 girls were raped. only 43 people have been convicted . people i've spoken to convicted. people i've spoken to warn me that not only is the abuse still going on, it's actually getting worse. despite this , rotherham has been this, rotherham has been declared as the 2025 children's capital of culture . there are capital of culture. there are also many places the country where no inquiry has been held into what's going on if small towns like rochdale and telford have produced thousands and of

victims , it's likely that the victims, it's likely that the real number across the country is in the tens of thousands. real number across the country is in the tens of thousands . we is in the tens of thousands. we need to know what is going on. that's why it is essential that the national crime agency launch investigations into any place where credible allegations , where credible allegations, grooming gangs have been made. it's the police need to be held to account whether it's for failing to collect on ethnicity or for not prosecuting criminals . it's also why we need strong prison sentences for the rapists . no victim should their abuser walk out of prison after only a few years . for too long, few years. for too long, britain's authorities have looked the other way and failed generations of girls. now is the time for them to redeem themselves , because if they themselves, because if they don't the same abuse will just keep happening .

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