New grooming gang report avoids discussing Islamic connection
by Tim Dieppe, Christian Concern:
The long-awaited Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) in Telford was published on Tuesday this week. Almost as if to justify the long wait, the report is fully 1,249 pages long, and produced in four volumes. The ‘Executive Summary’ alone stretches to 114 pages – surely some kind of record for the length of an ‘executive summary’.
The scale of the abuse
The Sunday Mirror was first to break the news in 2016 about grooming gangs in Telford, claiming that Telford had the “highest child sex crime rate in the country” with 15.1 crimes reported per 100,000 in the year to September 2015. Later, in 2018, The Mirror reported that “up to 1,000 girls, some as young as 11 [were] groomed and sold for sex” in the town.
The Inquiry report validates these numbers, stating:
“the estimate of victim/survivor numbers exceeding 1,000 was considered conservative, or in the words of one witness ‘tame’.”
Furthermore:
“it is clear to me that this type of exploitation dates back at least to the 1970s.”
Which is approaching 50 years of grooming gangs! This is actually generational abuse:
“I saw references to exploitation being ‘generational’; having come to be regarded as ‘normal’ by perpetrators and inevitable by victims and survivors some of whose parents had been through similar experiences.”
And it continues to this day, up and down the country.
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