Huddersfield. AIBU to think a distressed child should have priority with SS and the police?

[longwayoff]

Yet again, complaints by children and parents discounted by the people who should be helping them. How have we allowed this to happen in so many towns? How will it change in the future ?

Do you have a link?

Sorry, don't know how to do a link but covered extensively in national press today.

Are these the grooming cases that have just had the reporting restrictions lifted? You need to be more specific OP.

To do a link you just copy the original one and paste it in the text box.

it will change - and is changing - because young women where brave enough to stand up - and people finally listened

It's disgraceful what happened but it lies in the negative view of young women - hopefully we now see 15 year old girls as groomed rather than criminal ...

I think Huddersfield is pretty specific and like the op says it’s been all over the news.

It happens for all kind of crime. The children and families are (usually) from what's considered an underclass and are therefore considered to be part of the problem. E. G the black drug running teenager is a criminal, not an exploited child just as an abused young girl is "promiscuous".

Social care are starting to get it but schools and the police (and the public) have a really really long way to go

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-45918845

Horrid, good on the farmer who tried to help and reported it to police, who didn't seem to care.

yes, apologies bombardier, using inefficient tablet. Bestseller there is no other conclusion to draw is there? They're just considered worthless. How on earth can we ever protect the most vulnerable who have nobody to turn to when the institutions established for their protection treat them in such a way? All of these 'group' grooming scandals have taken place over years with children and parents and, of course, some youth workers, raising concerns and being dismissed. Desperate. It makes me feel hopeless, how can such entrenched contempt be altered?

Thanks for the link. TV is used as a monitor by my son so I never have the news on.

It's horrible longwayoff. However, I these will be the same children that the local FB group thinks are scourge on the town, that parents at the local school think should be excluded for disruptive behaviour.

Unfortunately the police etc are just following public opinion. No one wants to understand that these children are used and abused, they only want them off the streets and to stop their benefits. To suggest otherwise gets you labelled as a bleeding heart.

We're becoming a heartless grasping nation bestseller. I feel like a Victorian lady standing on sidelines uselessly wringing my hands with no idea what to do. Its sickening.

South Yorkshire Police have a long history of disgraceful conduct, including the behaviour of some officers after Hillsborough. West Yorkshire Police had officers who accepted hospitality from Jimmy Savile.

We still have the legacy of the large number of (usually men) who joined the police in the early 80s when there was a large scale recruitment and in places such as Yorkshire little alternative employment.

I'm ready for a flaming, but imo it seems the racial/religious background is what a lot of the focus and outrage of the media (and some areas of the public) has been on in these cases and not the victims.

It's just shit that your worth as a victim is determined by the status of who is raping you.