Some quotes from witnesses to the parliamentary select committee report on CSE and localised grooming:
Judge in the Derby CSE case:
He also noted that the victims in the case had been treated as though they were worthless and beyond respect. He suggested that “one of the factors leading to that was the fact that they were not part of [the defendants’] community or religion”.
Andrew Norfolk a reporter who was instrumental in exposing the crime:
If you come from a rural Mirpuri, Kashmiri community, where, whatever state law says, village tradition and sharia says that puberty is the green light for marriage—as it does—and if you recognise that most girls in this country are hitting puberty at 11 or 12, perhaps one begins to understand why it is not just lone offenders. There has to be something, given that so often this is a normalised group activity—not among a major criminal gang, but among friends, work colleagues and relatives—that does not have the same sense of shame attached to it as would be the case for your typical White offender, who works alone because if he told too many people, somebody would report him.
Anne Cryer, former MP for Keighley:
I have spoken to young men in some of the towns where this has been going on. Universally, they decry what happens. They say they are disgusted with the men who have been doing this but, equally, that they would never have dreamt of going to the police about it, because you do not turn on your own community.
This isn't just a few people posting on the net, it's a recognised problem that's been discussed in parliament, by MPs, by judges.
Regarding girls in their own communities, there's actually only been one prosecution regarding this type of abuse within these CSE cases. That involved one of the Leeds offenders and a family member. So the extent of any abuse within those communities remains doubtful and almost entirely anecdotal. The crucial difference however, is that girls within that community, should they have reported, would have been treated in the same way that any other victim of abuse would have been. They would not have had the police and local authorities shut the door on them, call them sluts, blame it on them. There are no accounts of this happening. But then, they had the right colour skin to be listened to.