Former MP branded racist for exposing grooming gangs

Aug 11, 2017 by Jill

by Ann Cryer, former Labour MP, Mailonline:

Flicking through the newspapers at my home in West Yorkshire yesterday, I found myself struggling with conflicting emotions.

Yes, I welcomed the successful conviction — this time in Newcastle — of another predatory gang for exploiting and abusing vulnerable girls.

And I felt immense relief that 18 people, all but one of them men, are no longer free to groom, drug, assault and rape children, to incite prostitution or profit from human trafficking.

There was pride, too, that my work as an MP has helped expose this evil. But there was also huge frustration.

It is almost 15 years since I first sounded a warning about the plight of young white girls being exploited by men from Asian communities in Britain.

Yet on Wednesday evening, as I watched the TV news, it was clear to me there are broadcasters still reluctant to state the basic facts about who the abusers are, for fear of appearing racist or Islamophobic.

Let us be clear: the men in the dock were mainly British-born from Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Iranian, Iraqi, Turkish and Indian communities, where I have seen a deep-rooted misogyny that perpetrates this form of abuse.

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