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... ... @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ 8 8 9 9 == Historical Context == 10 10 11 -Child sexual exploitation by groups in the UK has occurred for decades, but for years it remained largely underreported and misunderstood. Early warnings can be traced back to the 1990s and 2000s: youth workers and police in some towns noticed patterns of men befriending and abusing girls on the streets, yet little action was taken. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary about young white girls being groomed by British Asian men in Bradford was temporarily delayed at the request of police, who feared it could //“inflame racial tensions”//.{{footnote}} Sky News – Politics Hub (15 June 2025). “Grooming gangs scandal timeline: What happened, what inquiries there were...” by Alix Culbertson. https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-what-happened-what-inquiries-there-were-and-how-starmer-was-involved-after-elon-musks-accusations-13285021 (Provided a chronology of key grooming gang cases and political actions from 2001–2025, including conviction numbers and events like Starmer’s inquiry pledge and Musk’s comments.){{/footnote}} By the late 2000s, investigative journalists – notably The Times reporter Andrew Norfolk – began exposing widespread “on-street grooming” of minors in northern English towns.{{footnote}} https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/28/rotherham-child-sex-scandal-andrew-norfolk{{/footnote}} A pivotal moment came in **2013**, when prosecutions in Derby, Rochdale, and Oxford resulted in the first major convictions of grooming gang members.{{footnote}} https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/14/oxford-gang-guilty-grooming-girls{{/footnote}} These cases revealed that law enforcement and social services had overlooked repeated warnings; victims had tried to report abuse for years only to be ignored or dismissed. In 2013, public outrage grew after it emerged that police and officials in multiple towns had downplayed the problem, prompting demands for inquiries. The issue gained national notoriety with the 2014 publication of the Jay Report on Rotherham, which shocked the country with its scale of abuse and institutional failures.{{footnote}} https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o{{/footnote}} Since then, numerous reviews and investigations have been launched, each uncovering similar patterns of grooming and official negligence across different parts of England. The term “grooming gangs” became embedded in public discourse, symbolizing a broader scandal of child protection failures and raising difficult questions about culture, [[race>>doc:Main Categories.Rac e.The Existence of Race.WebHome]], and accountability.11 +Child sexual exploitation by groups in the UK has occurred for decades, but for years it remained largely underreported and misunderstood. Early warnings can be traced back to the 1990s and 2000s: youth workers and police in some towns noticed patterns of men befriending and abusing girls on the streets, yet little action was taken. In 2004, a Channel 4 documentary about young white girls being groomed by British Asian men in Bradford was temporarily delayed at the request of police, who feared it could //“inflame racial tensions”//.{{footnote}} Sky News – Politics Hub (15 June 2025). “Grooming gangs scandal timeline: What happened, what inquiries there were...” by Alix Culbertson. https://news.sky.com/story/grooming-gangs-scandal-timeline-what-happened-what-inquiries-there-were-and-how-starmer-was-involved-after-elon-musks-accusations-13285021 (Provided a chronology of key grooming gang cases and political actions from 2001–2025, including conviction numbers and events like Starmer’s inquiry pledge and Musk’s comments.){{/footnote}} By the late 2000s, investigative journalists – notably The Times reporter Andrew Norfolk – began exposing widespread “on-street grooming” of minors in northern English towns.{{footnote}} https://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/sep/28/rotherham-child-sex-scandal-andrew-norfolk{{/footnote}} A pivotal moment came in **2013**, when prosecutions in Derby, Rochdale, and Oxford resulted in the first major convictions of grooming gang members.{{footnote}} https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2013/may/14/oxford-gang-guilty-grooming-girls{{/footnote}} These cases revealed that law enforcement and social services had overlooked repeated warnings; victims had tried to report abuse for years only to be ignored or dismissed. In 2013, public outrage grew after it emerged that police and officials in multiple towns had downplayed the problem, prompting demands for inquiries. The issue gained national notoriety with the 2014 publication of the Jay Report on Rotherham, which shocked the country with its scale of abuse and institutional failures.{{footnote}} https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4ynzppk80o{{/footnote}} Since then, numerous reviews and investigations have been launched, each uncovering similar patterns of grooming and official negligence across different parts of England. The term “grooming gangs” became embedded in public discourse, symbolizing a broader scandal of child protection failures and raising difficult questions about culture, [[race>>doc:Main Categories.Science & Research.The Existence of Race]], and accountability. 12 12 13 13 == Key Cases == 14 14 ... ... @@ -44,14 +44,6 @@ 44 44 45 45 == Ethnic Breakdown of Offenders and Victims == 46 46 47 -[[ 48 - 49 -Image 1: GB News has identified over 50 different towns and cities that have endured Grooming Gangs 50 -~[~[https:~~~~/~~~~/www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-three-maps-crisis-scandal~>~>https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gangs-three-maps-crisis-scandal~]~] 51 -\\Image 2: Pakistani population density in the UK 52 -~[~[https:~~~~/~~~~/en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis~>~>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Pakistanis~]~] 53 -\\Image 3: Overlay of known gang locations onto Pakistani population density>>image:1750689614849-301.png]] 54 - 55 55 While comprehensive nationwide statistics are lacking (due to years of poor data recording), several reports and local investigations have provided numeric breakdowns of offender ethnicity in grooming gang cases. Below are examples illustrating the ethnic composition of grooming gang perpetrators in different contexts: 56 56 57 57 **West Midlands Police (Operation “Protection” report, 2010):** An internal **problem profile** in March 2010 identified 75 suspects involved in group child sexual exploitation in the West Midlands. Of those 75 suspects, **79% were Asian**, 12% were White, and 5% were African-Caribbean. Furthermore, //“62% of Asian suspects are of Pakistani origin”//, meaning **about half of all suspects (37 of 75) were Pakistani-heritage males**. The report also noted 139 potential victims (78% of whom were white girls) that had been identified by that time. This confidential profile was not released publicly in 2010 – police feared the //“predominant offender profile of Pakistani Muslim males… combined with [white female victims] has the potential to cause significant community tensions.”// The data, obtained later via FOI, now stands as concrete evidence of what officers knew: in that region, the overwhelming majority of known grooming gang perpetrators were of South Asian (especially Pakistani) background. {{footnote}} https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/child-sexual-exploitation-force-west-9151006{{/footnote}} {{footnote}} https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-32547630{{/footnote}}
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