{"id":2245,"date":"2025-02-09T15:43:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-09T16:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2025-02-09T18:49:29","modified_gmt":"2025-02-09T18:49:29","slug":"rocking-the-multicultural-boat-these-brits-spoke-the-truth-about-grooming-gangs-despite-threats-and-attempts-to-smear-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.developeternal.com\/index.php\/2025\/02\/09\/rocking-the-multicultural-boat-these-brits-spoke-the-truth-about-grooming-gangs-despite-threats-and-attempts-to-smear-them\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Rocking the multicultural boat\u2019: These Brits spoke the truth about grooming gangs despite threats and attempts to smear them"},"content":{"rendered":"

Those who dared to speak out uncovered a disturbing pattern of institutional neglect and misplaced priorities that allowed abuse to persist unchecked<\/strong><\/p>\n

For decades, the exploitation of thousands of young British girls by grooming gangs of predominantly Asian men across the UK was not only ignored but actively covered up. The scandal is described as one of the most egregious institutional failures in modern British history.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Detectives were discouraged from investigating, whistleblowers were silenced or ostracized, and victims were turned away by authorities.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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What you need to know about the Pakistani rape gangs Musk is tweeting about<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

\u201cEvery single person who tried to bring these issues to the attention of the people who can actually do something about it have been silenced… They\u2019ve been ignored. They\u2019ve been vilified,\u201d<\/em> activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali\u00a0noted<\/a> on the Free Press podcast in January.<\/p>\n

Betrayed by the system<\/h2>\n

During a 2014 debate about whether Britain is \u201ca rape culture\u201d<\/em> on the BBC3 program Free Speech, an audience member from the town of Bradford spoke out about the prevalence of Pakistani grooming gangs in her community and the reluctance of authorities to act. A resurfaced clip of the girl getting \u201cscoffed at\u201d<\/em> garnered over a million views on X.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cI know it\u2019s probably an unpopular view but I completely agree that in some areas rape is largely committed by Muslims,\u201d<\/em> the girl\u2019s statement was met with boos.<\/p>\n

She continued: \u201cNo, I grew up in Bradford, alright? And in that kind of environment, it is mainly Asian men, not because it\u2019s something about their culture but because they\u2019re not getting caught. Like I\u2019ve had friends who\u2019ve been raped and the police have told them because it\u2019s an Asian man that\u2019s done it we\u2019re probably not gonna catch them. It happens all the time.\u201d<\/em>\u00a0<\/p>\n

An embarrassed\u00a0moderator, instead of exploring her testimony, quickly redirected the conversation to a Muslim panelist who ridiculed her concerns.<\/p>\n

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Astonishing. Girl in 2014 gets scoffed at on the BBC for suggesting that the grooming gangs in Bradford were largely \u2018Asian\u2019, \u2018Muslim\u2019 men and police were turning a blind eye. pic.twitter.com\/9eVj2zjND3<\/a><\/p>\n

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Writer James Delingpole, who was a panel guest there, recently\u00a0recounted<\/a> in The Spectator how he was heckled for speaking out about the Muslim grooming gangs and the hostility and silencing tactics he faced. Despite accusations of spreading lies from fellow panelists, and a lack of support from the moderators, he persisted in highlighting the crimes. By that time they had been documented in places like Rotherham and Rochdale.<\/p>\n

Detective dismissed as an \u2018emotional woman\u2019<\/h2>\n

Despite compiling a list of over 200 suspects for a 2004 grooming gangs police investigation in the town of Rochdale, Operation Augusta was abruptly abandoned, Maggie Oliver, a former detective with Greater Manchester Police (GMP) would\u00a0recount<\/a>. One suspect identified by a victim was found to be a serving police officer. But when Oliver sought answers, she was told by another officer investigating corruption to \u201cleave it to us.\u201d<\/em> She never learned what, if anything, happened to him.<\/p>\n

Oliver suspected that the decision to terminate the operation came from the highest levels, fearing that revealing the extent of child grooming by Muslim men could exacerbate tensions during an already volatile time. Operation Augusta was shut down in July 2005, with the final entry in its files made the evening before the 7\/7 terrorist attacks in London, she revealed.<\/p>\n

When she joined another investigation into the rape gangs in 2010 she was shocked to discover how much intelligence GMP had been sitting on. Many of the offenders were already known to GMP since 2008. Oliver noticed an \u201cunderlying reluctance\u201d<\/em>\u00a0by senior officers to pursue the case fully. Detailed statements from victims were never entered into the police system or reviewed. Evidence such as DNA and victim identifications in ID parades was disregarded.<\/p>\n

Operation Span ultimately resulted in the conviction of just nine men for sexual offences against five girls, a fraction of the perpetrators known to police. Disillusioned by the systemic failures and dismissed as an \u201cemotional woman\u201d<\/em> by her superiors, Oliver resigned in October 2012 and became a whistleblower, founding the Maggie Oliver Foundation to support survivors.<\/p>\n

In 2024 she\u00a0said<\/a> that only a \u201ctiny number\u201d<\/em> of perpetrators were jailed and many abusers were still living in Rochdale.<\/p>\n

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\n FILE PHOTO: Former detective Maggie Oliver (2nd left left) with lawyers being interviewed by members of the press outside Greater Manchester Police Force HQ.<\/p>\n


\n \u00a9\u00a0 Danny Lawson \/ PA Images via Getty Images <\/span>
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Bullied council worker turned whistleblower<\/h2>\n

In 2011 Jayne Senior, a former youth services manager in Rotherham was asked to compile a report on the concerns about abuse she had raised for years. She\u00a0submitted<\/a> a 42-page document filled with intelligence, including the names of known perpetrators. But instead of action, it resulted in her program, Risky Business, a youth project dealing with girls in danger of sexual exploitation, getting shut down.<\/p>\n

Her work was dismissed by the police and council, who labeled\u00a0her records\u00a0\u201crubbish.\u201d<\/em> When Senior raised concerns, she was\u00a0told<\/a> she was \u201crocking the multicultural boat,\u201d<\/em> as council leaders feared addressing the issue would inflame racial tensions. The council even accused her of breaching the \u201chuman rights\u201d<\/em> of perpetrators.<\/p>\n

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Power play: How a country with major energy potential struggles to keep the lights on<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

When she discovered a previous report she had written had been redacted to remove references to sexual abuse, Senior realized she could no longer remain silent. She reached out to The Times investigative journalist Andrew Norfolk. The revelations culminated in an inquiry, which\u00a0estimated<\/a> at least 1,400 children had been sexually exploited over 16 years.<\/p>\n

Despite Senior\u00a0facing<\/a>\u00a0continued harassment, including baseless investigations and intimidation by council officials and local police. She ran for the council in 2016, but saw retaliation, including raids on her charity and threats of incarceration.<\/p>\n

Senior worked with the National Crime Agency to uncover patterns of abuse, revealing that complaints about sexual exploitation had been ignored by police, and officers responsible for failures had faced no consequences. In 2021, Senior\u2019s complaints about police misconduct were finally\u00a0upheld<\/a>.<\/p>\n

When she urged then Conservative Home Secretary Suella Braverman to take action in Rotherham, she related in graphic detail that the abuse was still ongoing but got no response. In 2020, then Labour opposition leader Keir Starmer\u00a0declined<\/a> to meet her or launch an inquiry into Labour councilors accused of undermining her work. Senior eventually quit as a councilor in March 2021, citing ceaseless bullying.<\/p>\n

\u201cToo many professionals who raised concerns about the rape and abuse of children quickly became persona non grata and exited amidst allegations about their conduct,\u201d<\/em> Georgina Halford-Hall of Whistleblowers UK\u00a0stated<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\n FILE PHOTO: Jayne Senior.<\/p>\n


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Suppression, biases, threats<\/h2>\n

Dame Louise Casey\u2019s 2015 report on Rotherham exposed a \u201cdeep-rooted\u201d<\/em> culture of cover-ups, where employees were pressured to \u201csuppress, keep quiet, or cover up\u201d<\/em> issues of child abuse.<\/p>\n

One whistleblower\u00a0revealed<\/a> to The Times in January that during the Independent Office for Police Conduct\u2019s (IOPC) investigation into South Yorkshire Police, they were \u201cactively told not to pursue senior officers.\u201d<\/em> Despite decades of systemic failure, no senior officials lost their jobs, the highest-ranked individual investigated was a detective inspector. And the most severe punishments issued were written warnings or \u201cmanagement advice.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

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Faith in the Trenches: Why the Russian Army needs more military priests<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Recently, Simon Danczuk, the former MP for the town of Rochdale (2010-2017),\u00a0has alleged<\/a> that Tony Lloyd, a senior Labour figure and former party chairman, threatened him not to raise concerns about the ethnicity of the perpetrators, warning it could cost Labour votes.<\/p>\n

Former director general of the Prison Service of England, Martin Narey,\u00a0revealed<\/a> in The Spectator in early January how he faced professional and personal backlash for exposing grooming gangs.<\/p>\n

In contrast to the treatment of whistleblowers, the former Deputy Children\u2019s Commissioner, who dismissed growing concerns about the grooming gangs, profited from her position in the child protection system, as\u00a0revealed<\/a> in the Daily Mail in 2015.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Despite her controversial handling of the abuse cases in Rochdale and Rotherham, Sue Berelowitz not only received a \u00a3134,000 pay-off after stepping down, within 24 hours she was rehired as a \u00a31,000-a-day consultant to lead an inquiry into child abuse. Though after media exposure and criticism her contract was\u00a0cancelled<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In 2017, Labour MP Naz Shah\u00a0faced<\/a> backlash after retweeting a post from a parody account suggesting that victims of the Rotherham abuse scandal should \u201cshut their mouths for the good of diversity.\u201d<\/em> Shah claimed the retweet was accidental.\u00a0She did not face formal disciplinary action from the Labour Party over the retweet, and she issued no further apology. While another Labour MP, Sarah Champion, was\u00a0forced to quit<\/a> the party\u2019s front bench after writing in The Sun that \u201cBritain has a problem with British Pakistani men raping and exploiting white girls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

New inquiries<\/h2>\n

After pressure kickstarted by Elon Musk\u2019s relentless tweets, Home Secretary Yvette Cooper on January, 16\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0plans for a \u201crapid audit\u201d<\/em> of the \u201ccurrent scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country,\u201d<\/em>\u00a0five government-backed local inquiries, and a \u00a310 million action plan to tackle child sexual abuse.<\/p>\n

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\n FILE PHOTO: Elon Musk.<\/p>\n


\n \u00a9\u00a0 Slaven Vlasic \/ Getty Images for The New York Times <\/span>
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Conservative Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philp\u00a0criticized<\/a> the move as \u201ctotally inadequate,\u201d<\/em> noting that\u00a0\u201cup to 50 towns are affected, what about the rest \u2014 don\u2019t they matter?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It came just a day after Oliver placed the home secretary \u201con notice\u201d<\/em> regarding potential legal action if she did not commit to urgent and transparent reforms. Speaking to The i Paper after the measures were announced, Oliver\u00a0criticized<\/a> them as a \u201cknee-jerk\u201d<\/em> reaction to her letter. She called for detailed plans and survivor-led initiatives to address the systemic failures.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s been tiptoed around, it\u2019s been hidden, and there has been an abject failure to protect children and to prosecute abusers, and I think it is only because of Elon Musk\u2019s reach throughout the world that we are finally seeing some movement on this,\u201d<\/em> Oliver said.<\/p>\n

Musk reacted to the plan,\u00a0writing<\/a> on X:\u00a0\u201cI hope this is a proper investigation.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

It is likely that the scandal will only grow in the near future, exposing the consequences of the actions of British politicians and civil servants.\u00a0After the new inquiries were announced, The Express\u00a0reported<\/a> on January 17 that \u201cBritain\u2019s worst grooming gang scandal has not yet been exposed\u201d<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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