Sadiq Khan cover up of London rape gangs

Yes. Full of 'sophisticated' Londoners who love Ulez, and don't thibk anyone outside London is entitled to an opinion.

They were also a family that let their daughter down. Charlene's parents had known paedophile stay at their house, and didn't report Charlene missing for three days. I have zero sympathy for them.

Khan threads generally go like that on mn

It’s the constant problem of wanting to appear good whilst not actually being good. Being good is sometimes hard and uncomfortable, looking good is comparatively easy.

You think she’d have been safe(r) in care?!

Many (most?) of the Rochdale victims were looked after children.

And many admit they don't even live in London.

Same. It shouldn’t.

Appalling but not surprising - given previous deflections, redirections and obsfuscation.

I agree with you.

It is shocking that so many people, across so many professions, were willing to turn away and pretend the rape and torture of British children, in their thousands, wasn't happening. Details of the judges' sentencing reports still linger with me and fill me with incandescent fury.

They didn't deal with it when they first knew. So now it is so much bigger, so much more horrific and so much more shameful. Tough. We must have a full comprehensive drains-up of an Inquiry that looks at everything that allowed the Grooming Gangs easy access to vulnerable girls. Access which would often continue for many years, until the girls became too old to be of interest.

And the Inquiry must look at why the perpetrators believed they could get away with it, and why the gangs so often included multiple close relatives and/or centred on one family business.

And it must look at the factors that stopped those that could, and should, have intervened from doing their #@# jobs, and protecting the children.

Nothing short of this will be enough.

We are on the feminism : sex and gender pages … so most of the posters here get it and understand that supporting abused women or girls shouldn’t take second place to other issues.
When I posted about this issue on AIBU back in January I got a lot more push back. ( I’m not sure how to link to the post) .
Im really glad it’s been addressed again. I don’t understand why the safety of women and girls should take second place to transgender ideology or religious or cultural beliefs.

Are you for real? Seriously? We’ve been hearing about Jeffrey Epstein for weeks now. Hardly anything about the grooming gangs. This isn’t right wing gutter press - it actually happened 🙄

I would be happy for my tax money to go towards that. May be the only way the government learns anything.

Yes, I think it very much related to cousin marriage and a code of silence around this kind of behaviour.

The thing that got me about the article was some of the women clearly identified they were harmed by their husbands but still saw the girls as complicit in their own abuse. It was dehumanising. Weirdly similar to how the police and social workers saw it so I would hesitate to say it’s rooted in cultural difference, just a disdain for girls and women generally.

I absolutely rate the young woman and her mum who clearly condemned the behaviour with no equivocation at all. it is difficult to reflect so honestly on your own communities shortcomings and I think it’s women like that who deeply care for other women that make all the difference. I would hope it’s a reminder that there are decent people in each community who would like to see justice done for every single girl.

Well said.

There is also the issue of money. One victim took out a private case and won £425,000.

If all victims won cases against the government, the government would collapse.

If when the police first became aware of this stuff they had just cracked down hard on it then it would never have become a race issue. What they did was give a free pass to the worst men in a particular community to do what they want. I’m not so naive to think that there aren’t plenty of men from every culture who would happily do the most awful shit if they thought they could get away with it but our own institutions actively facilitated this. I still struggle to believe that actual children were labelled prostitutes.

A lot of this is tied up with who the victims are, if it had been an MP’s daughter the response would have been very different imo.

It's obvious there was a cover up in Rotherham for fear of encouraging racism. The same thing seems to be happening in London. Cover-ups certainly encourage racism when honesty and a willingness to prosecute sooner would have had less impact.

This shouldnt be right v left, this should be everyone determined to expose the truth.

Why don't you check get hold of the reports that reference these grooming gangs, watch the video of Khan denying there is any evidence of them and write to the Guardian?

That’s exactly it.

Yes, another issue with having people immigrating from areas with extremely clannish tribes and high rates of cousin marriage.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4936754/Wives-men-jailed-rape-blame-victims-too.html

I think this is a really interesting article.

I just watched the video of SK squirming and avoiding the question about grooming gangs in London.

Why would he do that?

Would he do the same if it were white men targeting ethnic minority girls?

Thats a fair point, but the offenders in the Uk were often related, brothers, cousins, uncles etc. people were often offending in family groups. That deserves some attention I think.