Musk has his own agenda. He does not care about the victims.
I worked for a street outreach project in a major northern city in the late 1980s/ early 1990s.
The activities of 'rape gangs' was going on then, and this was both before and after the Children's Act came into force in 1989. Children forced into 'prostitution' (as it was called at the time) through abuse, violence, threats, rape, drugs. Children arrested for 'prostitution' and not recognised as victims of abuse. Children imprisoned in houses to 'prime' or 'season' them for 'prostitution'. Children coerced and emotionally abused by adults pretending to be in 'relationships' with them.
The response of the authorities (police, social services) was terrible. Aside from arresting children (although I am not aware of any charges being brought), when pushed they would claim their hands were tied - for example, children were not willing to make statements against their abusers. We would give names, addresses - if it was acted on, it would be to remove children but not prosecute the men involved.
The point I want to make here though is that ALL the children we came across were in Local Authority Care Homes. They also happened to all be white (in a very diverse city) - and with little if any contact with family, and from unsafe, abusive backgrounds. Socio-economically deprived backgrounds. No family willing or able or aware of the situation to intervene. The gangs involved were all men, although they would 'recruit' slightly older young people, often young women, to 'groom' vulnerable children. The men were not from one ethnicity - but from ALL ethnicities. And children - quite clearly children - who were 'pimped' out on the street (mainly girls, but also boys) were abused by men of all classes and ethnic backgrounds. The only thing the perpetrators had in common were they were all men, and they were all paedophiles.
What I took away from this was that these men will target the most vulnerable children in our society in these cases of systematic gang abuse. And in the cases I'm outlining here, the lack of action was not an attitude towards the perpetrators, but an attitude towards the victims, who were seen as problematic, difficult children who would regularly abscond from care homes. Children who seemed tough, aggressive, who had an 'issue' with authority. These were children not attending school, taking drugs, whose lives were already 'scripted' by the authorities.
It was heartbreaking. I can't read the details of all these cases coming to light now, as it takes me right back, but I know about the 'race' issue of course, and Musk using this to simultaneously attack Starmer and 'immigrants' of a particular ethnicity. I am aware that these were not all children in the care system, and families were not listened to, just as we weren't.
In my experience, though, it was always about how the victims were viewed, rather than 'protecting' the perpetrators - that the children somehow were not worthy of safeguarding, they were somehow complicit in their own abuse.
Has that changed with these more recent cases?