She was one of the first to flag up the Rotherham abuse scandal. In her first interview Hilary Willmer, from the child protection group Pace, talks about why their report was suppressed.
1,400 children were abused in Rotherham over a 16-year period. Victims as young as 11 were trafficked, beaten and raped. One girl said gang rape was ‘a way of life’ where she lived. But council staff did nothing for fear of being labelled racist.
A report commissioned in the wake of revelations that “at least” 1,400 children were sexually exploited in Rotherham has branded the local authority “not fit for purpose” and left it facing takeover by government commissioners. How did it reach this point?
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The Rotherham scandal refers to the widespread sexual abuse of children and young people in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, over a period of more than a decade. The following are some key points about the scandal:
The abuse took place between 1997 and 2013 and involved an estimated 1,400 children and young people.
The majority of the victims were girls aged between 11 and 15, who were typically from disadvantaged backgrounds.
The abusers were predominantly men of Pakistani heritage, while the victims were mostly white British.
The abuse included rape, physical assault, and emotional abuse. Some victims were also trafficked to other towns and cities in the UK.
The abuse was facilitated by a number of failings on the part of the local authorities, including social services, the police, and the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS).
These failings included a lack of understanding of the nature and scale of the abuse, a reluctance to act on reports of abuse, and a tendency to blame the victims for their own abuse.
The scandal was exposed in 2012 by a report in The Times newspaper, which led to a number of investigations and inquiries.
As a result of these investigations, a number of individuals were convicted of sexual offences, while several senior officials in Rotherham were found to have been complicit in the cover-up of the abuse.
The scandal prompted a national debate about child sexual exploitation in the UK, and led to changes in legislation and procedures aimed at improving the protection of children and young people from abuse.
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British businesswoman Ruzwana Bashir kept quiet when she was abused in her home town of Skipton, aged ten. She later overcame her family’s reluctance to take her abuser to court, and now calls on others victims to take legal action.
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The shocking Telford Grooming Gang Scandal is reportedly the worst in Britain’s history and saw an estimated one thousand girls beaten, raped, and even killed in a city of only 170,000 residents. Horrifying stories have emerged of British police looking the other way, refusing to investigate child rape cases, calling child rape “consensual sex” and branding the victims as racists. As the mainstream media fails to cover this revolting multicultural controversy, Stefan Molyneux explains the lengths the United Kingdom has gone to be “politically correct.”
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Mr Singh founded the Sikh Awareness Society to encourage Sikh families to act against sexual abuse.
And he said that political correctness had let the gangs succeed.
He told Katie: “I think it is due to political correctness, but it’s also down to nobody wants to be called a racist. Nobody wants to call a spade a spade. Nobody really grabbing the bull by the horns and saying “No, abuse is abuse”.
“But they don’t want to be labeled that we’re after one community, we’re targeting one community.
“We can can see all the reports coming out Rotherham, the failings of the police, the failings of the local councillors.
“The whole system failed and that’s what’s been happening for the last 30 years. And it is PC. People are just too too afraid to, you know, just too afraid to speak the truth.”
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Forced Marriages: Arranged marriages causing a wave of unreported violence
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There are 8 to 10 thousand forced marriages in the UK every year. As authorities are accused of taking ‘honour’ crimes too lightly, girls who resist or refuse a marriage can face abuse, torture, even death.
“We have kidnappings, abductions, sexual offences. Anything that you can imagine could happen does happen in the name of honour”, Nazir Afzal, the Chief Prosecutor for Northwest England, tells us. Shafilia Ahmed simply wanted to be a lawyer and to make her own relationship choices. But her parents judged the 17-year-old’s aspirations to be shameful to the family, so they killed her and made their other children watch the consequences of perceived dishonour. In the multi-cultural corners of the United Kingdom law enforcement authorities are struggling to address the problem. Police, in particular, have been accused of not taking honour crime seriously, ignoring clear warning signs and pleas for help. Detective Constable Palbinder Singh says part of the problem is being too culturally sensitive. “It’s a ruse. We won’t interfere with that family, it’s their culture. Well hang on a minute, crimes are being committed, people’s lives are being destroyed, people’s freedoms are being suppressed.”
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