Britain Today.

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Oh looky, it seems the MSM are waking up to the idea that grooming-gangs are still roaming the UK.
Who'd have thought it?! But notice, they steer clear of describing facets of this behaviour, aspects like ethnicity
and cultural-settings regarding women.
Noooo, we can't say things like that!!

Child sexual abuse: Extensive failures in tackling grooming, says report



'Police and councils are still failing to properly identify and investigate child grooming gangs, a report warns.
The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse said officials often denied the scale of the issue, thinking
incorrectly that it was "on the wane".

Data such as the ethnicity of abusers and victims was not collected and could have helped identify offenders.
In its report the inquiry, which covers England and Wales, said child victims were often blamed by authorities.

In its 18th report, IICSA examined abuse in St Helens, Tower Hamlets in London, Swansea, Durham, Bristol
and Warwickshire. It found signs of abuse in the six areas studied but said there were "extensive failures" in
how authorities tackled child exploitation, with police often unable to provide evidence on the extent of the
problem.

The inquiry concluded that abuse of children by grooming gangs occurred in all parts of England and Wales.

Its recommendations include improving the advice and guidance given to police and local authorities, a tighter
definition of the problem, and the collection of ethnicity data. There was a "flawed assumption" that this form of
child sexual abuse was on the wane, the inquiry's chair Prof Alexis Jay said.

Officials in two areas said there was no data suggesting abuse, but in at least one, Swansea, the inquiry found
examples which "should have been identified by the police". There was also disagreement among agencies
working with police about the definition of organised child abuse, the report found.

The inquiry found children as young as 10 were being labelled as only "at risk", despite clear evidence they were
contracting sexually-transmitted diseases, going missing with adults and turning up late from "house parties".

The report said that in some cases authorities might be potentially downplaying the scale of abuse over concerns
about the negative publicity. It said local authorities "don't want to be labelled another Rochdale or Rotherham"
-referring to high-profile grooming gangs.

'I was a child'
One woman, abused as a child by a notorious gang in Rochdale told the BBC: "I was a child. I always pictured
rape as being pinned down, as being tied up. "Because I got drunk and I woke up with no underwear on I didn't
actually think I'd been raped. I always kind of blamed myself in that situation."

"The school knew that I was pregnant at 14 and used to see me get picked up and dropped off by Asian males.
"The hospital knew because they carried out an abortion without my parent's consent."
"The police knew because I was arrested every other week.
"All the authorities knew, but they never did anything."


Inquiry chairwoman, Prof Alexis Jay, led the investigation into child abuse in Rotherham

Concerns about so-called grooming gangs have been growing since the late 2000s following a string of horrifying
cases in Rotherham, Rochdale, Derby, Oxford, Bristol and Cornwall. They involved a clear pattern in which groups
of adult men befriended children, plying them with drink and drugs before sexually abusing them over months.

There has been repeated criticism of the police and child protection agencies for failing to take account of the fact
that in some of the most serious cases the perpetrators were a distinct ethnic or religious community, while the victims
were from another.

None of the areas examined by IICSA kept data on the ethnicity of all victims and perpetrators.

"This makes it impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child
sexual exploitation by networks," the report concludes.
This is despite the Home Office regularly publishing general data about the ethnicity of criminals and victims...'

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