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Happy Elon Musk calling out govt over grooming gang PT 2

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Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 14:20

Pt 2 can commence!

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GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:34

MrsSchrute · 03/01/2025 20:23

But the perpetrators were imprisoned right? And there were a number of inquiries?
So what was covered up?

Some of them were.

We still have no idea the extent of the rot.

Rape and CSE conviction rates in this country are fucking dismal, across the board.

Failing to arrest perpetrators, and arresting victims or their families instead makes a fucking dire situation even worse.

People were not arrested, while the victims were, because of ‘racial sensitivities’.

‘Cover-up’ by your definition, or not, it’s vile.

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:35

Thanks for sharing. No mention of that global humiliation OP is insisting is happening though.

GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:36

Totallymessed · 03/01/2025 20:25

The whole report is full of complete failures to collect data on the part of the police and local authorities. I have no idea why Jess Phillips thinks councils will magically be able to investigate themselves, even without the obvious conflict of interests.

The report describes decades of terrible policies and inconsistent (or total lack of) recording of data. It's an absolute shitshow. I've never read such a litany of incompetence and total disregard for safeguarding of children.

Honestly, half the time I avoid the news, because if I read everything I’d just be angry all the time.

Women and children are let down at every turn. Across the board.

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 20:36

The report says the data on ethnicity reporting was crap and they don't know why it wasn't done.
They also talk about police engaging with the communities in a preventing way.

How do police enter a community to stop this happening in a preventive way??

Totallymessed · 03/01/2025 20:39

MrsSchrute · 03/01/2025 20:33

Nazir Afzal, former chief prosecutor and someone who played a key role in prosecuting the rape gangs, has said:

'For those of you suggesting a national public inquiry into so called grooming gangs will deliver accountability
Do you know that the grand total of people brought to justice following the Hillsborough, Grenfell, Post Office, Infected Blood & Bloody Sunday public inquiries is ONE?'

I think that he knows far more about the situation than anyone on this thread, and so his opinion has weight.

So just do nothing then? The authorities responsible get to just move on and get on with the same jobs they were doing at the time- no personal accountability whatsoever?

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:40

GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:29

British Asian or Muslim origin -
It reported that the issue of race, and the fear of being seen as racist, may have hindered
the detection and intervention in some cases of child sexual exploitation throughout the
country for a number of years. Indeed, upon arrest, some of those in Rochdale alleged that
the prosecution was motivated by race The Home Affairs Committee found that it was
essential that professionals were able to raise their concerns freely and without fear of being
labelled racist
However, many of those involved in investigating child sexual exploitation
cases warned against citing race as a key factor and a number of child sexual exploitation
cases involving groups of offenders from other ethnic backgrounds were identified.

The victims were let down x2.

Once as victims of CSE, and once of victims as hate crimes.

Again, you’ll never hear me dismissing one group of rapists because another group exists.

Each group needs to be specifically target, and ignoring the MOs of particular groups helps no-one, least if all the victims.

I agree. No group should be ignored.

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 20:40

pointythings · 03/01/2025 20:19

Why are you mentioning ethnic communities? Certain posters seem hellbent on trying to bring race & colour into this. Anyone who commits a CSA crime needs to feel the full effects of the law including anyone who was aware but failed to take action .

Agreed. So why is your focus exclusively on a small subset of the grooming gangs and the inquiry surrounding them?

Of course if the recommendations from the inquiry are implemented they will cover the full spectrum of grooming gangs, not just the ones that you and Musk are so laser focused on.

This thread & the previous one are in relation to what is currently in the news due to Elon Musk raising the scandal again & it's handling. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, it's about the current news story with EM . You & certain posters are determined to derail this into a race war. Not taking your bait, sorry. All CSA criminals need the full effects of the law including those protecting them.

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GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:40

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:23

Or to put it another way, where's your rage for the Scottish sex abuse victims, who had to wait 40 years for an inquiry? Or for the victims whose abusers were recently found to be protected by the Church of England?

So we can point out these demographics, but not the ones in Rochdale/Rotherham/numerous other cities? Why is that?

I’m not afraid to call out any of these groups, they all exist.

But no one is complaining when people talk about abuse in say, the church, are they? Where’s all the ‘it’s men in general’ comments then?

No. Target them all specifically, and take them all down. One by one by one.

Harsher sentences are needed for sexual crimes.

Build more prisons.

You’ll never hear me dismissing or ‘whatabouting’ a known group of sexual predators just because another group also exist.

It’s a joke. sickening

Atissues · 03/01/2025 20:42

police officer commenting on X

‘’ I would be glad to assist any national enquiry in the grooming/rape gangs Let me be clear although I didn't have any direct involvement with grooming gangs, I did come across victims of them from time to time, mostly they were mispers (missing persons) I raised and asked questions as to why these missing girls kept having links to Muslim men/addresses, I was shut down, when all this started emerging the force I worked for "looked into" any possible similar on us, I sent everything I had been involved with and my concerns to the team looking at it but was told nothing was found. You constantly had the racism accusation chucked around if you raised this issue. Eventually I lost all faith in the police as an organisation for this and other reasons I left’’

So by exposing this to so many people maybe they will uncover other victims and criminals. Which can only be a good thing.

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 20:44

GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:34

Some of them were.

We still have no idea the extent of the rot.

Rape and CSE conviction rates in this country are fucking dismal, across the board.

Failing to arrest perpetrators, and arresting victims or their families instead makes a fucking dire situation even worse.

People were not arrested, while the victims were, because of ‘racial sensitivities’.

‘Cover-up’ by your definition, or not, it’s vile.

This. Anyone involved in protecting the rapists no the children need to be fully investigated.

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itsgettingweird · 03/01/2025 20:46

t's you're not your just for the sake of being pedantic..!

Pedantic seems to be one of your better qualities Wink

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 20:46

Atissues · 03/01/2025 20:42

police officer commenting on X

‘’ I would be glad to assist any national enquiry in the grooming/rape gangs Let me be clear although I didn't have any direct involvement with grooming gangs, I did come across victims of them from time to time, mostly they were mispers (missing persons) I raised and asked questions as to why these missing girls kept having links to Muslim men/addresses, I was shut down, when all this started emerging the force I worked for "looked into" any possible similar on us, I sent everything I had been involved with and my concerns to the team looking at it but was told nothing was found. You constantly had the racism accusation chucked around if you raised this issue. Eventually I lost all faith in the police as an organisation for this and other reasons I left’’

So by exposing this to so many people maybe they will uncover other victims and criminals. Which can only be a good thing.

This is what I've been saying, there are many directly or indirectly involved who have information. This investigation is far from over

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Totallymessed · 03/01/2025 20:46

Atissues · 03/01/2025 20:33

Rupert Lowe was advised today It is apparently still happening today.

I have spent hours reading this in the last 48 hours. I have put links on another live thread on MN. There are people who have researched this for years. It’s is huge.

The Jay report wasn’t carried out in the main towns affected. Rotherham was apparently only mentioned once. I don’t think the worst cases were reported. But I am happy to be corrected as I have not read the report only extracts. Whistleblowers were threatened. The babies from rape are STILL forced to see the rapists who raped their mothers.

Its all on X and you can then check the sources/material and background of those involved.

How can a council whose welfare officer was the ringleader of the Rotherham rape gang investigate themselves? That seems odd for a democratic country.

‘An independent review said Shabir Ahmed, who led the sexual abuse ring in Rochdale, was seconded to the Oldham Pakistani Community Centre during his time working for the local authority.
Despite multiple concerns being raised about him and his arrest for the sexual assault of children, police failed to tell his employers.’

Sky news.

The report actually specifically excludes discussion of Rotherham. It's only mentioned to say that.

It's really a broad overview, looking in more detail at 6 local authority areas in England and Wales, chosen because they had not been subject to any previous investigation. (Durham, Swansea, Warwickshire, St. Helens, Tower Hamlets and Bristol).

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 20:48

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 20:24

@AdventFridgeOfShame @MrsSchrute

No many weren't and the police and other people who were complicit also faced no penalties.

Off the top of my head if 250 police were complained about only 7 faced penalties. Not exact figures.

This needs to be reopened or a new investigation needs to take place . Why so lenient if they knew?

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DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:48

Chainzreaction · 03/01/2025 20:40

This thread & the previous one are in relation to what is currently in the news due to Elon Musk raising the scandal again & it's handling. It has nothing to do with ethnicity, it's about the current news story with EM . You & certain posters are determined to derail this into a race war. Not taking your bait, sorry. All CSA criminals need the full effects of the law including those protecting them.

If that's the case, why aren't you and Elon Musk raising hell about the Church of England protecting the clergy who were abusers? Berating the authorities for failing to act for 40+ years in the Scottish child sex abuse scandal?

Musk has seized on the Rotherham/Oldham etc rape gang scandal exactly because it is about race and ethnicity. Asian men raping and torturing little white girls. As I said earlier, if I thought he gave a shiny shit about the victims I'd be applauding him to high heaven. But anyone with half a brain knows he's exploiting those victims to encourage people to his failing social media platform and to stir up the same anti-immigration rhetoric over here that got Trump into power in the US, which Musk hopes will also get Farage into Number 10 eventually. Then he'll have two of the world's most powerful politicians in his pocket.

To pretend Musk's intervention isn't about race is laughable.

Atissues · 03/01/2025 20:49

Mark Steyn

The leader of the grooming gang, a chap called Shabir Ahmed, worked for the Council for years on end, as a 'welfare rights officer.' He ran his grooming gang out of the welfare office; another was on the Oldham Youth Council. ...Oldham is a town where a 12-year-old girl goes into the police station to report that she'd been raped by, 'An Asian male known only as Ali in the graveyard of Oldham Parish Church.' The poor girl gets sloughed off by the desk officer and then in the lobby of the very police station, is led away by two other men who along with half a dozen others, rape her again and again all through the night

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:51

GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:40

So we can point out these demographics, but not the ones in Rochdale/Rotherham/numerous other cities? Why is that?

I’m not afraid to call out any of these groups, they all exist.

But no one is complaining when people talk about abuse in say, the church, are they? Where’s all the ‘it’s men in general’ comments then?

No. Target them all specifically, and take them all down. One by one by one.

Harsher sentences are needed for sexual crimes.

Build more prisons.

You’ll never hear me dismissing or ‘whatabouting’ a known group of sexual predators just because another group also exist.

It’s a joke. sickening

I'm not saying we shouldn't call out the Rotherham/Oldham rapists for what they are. I'm answering OP who claims that Musk's intervention, and therefore her threads, isn't anything at all to do with race. That's just bollocks.

zdcgbjm · 03/01/2025 20:55

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 18:38

It's been a national issue and needs to be addressed nationally.

I do feel however because much of this kicked off or was uncovered during labours time with ks in the cps it's all too close to home.

KS was the one that started prosecuting these gangs!

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GoldThumb · 03/01/2025 20:57

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 20:51

I'm not saying we shouldn't call out the Rotherham/Oldham rapists for what they are. I'm answering OP who claims that Musk's intervention, and therefore her threads, isn't anything at all to do with race. That's just bollocks.

I don’t know about Elon Musks objectives. Only he knows that.

But we definitely should be calling out these particular groups for what they are. And even today, people just don’t want to do it.

Wasn’t particularly you, but your post was just the one I saw that highlighted how easily we are able to call other particular demographics out. (As we should!)

I remember this being discussed on here, before the enquiry was concluded, and people were flat out denying it occurred. Denied that race/fear of being labelled racist etc. played any part of it. Until they were forced to admit it due to the enquiry.

Honestly, I’ve been reading on here all evening, that we shouldn’t be calling these particular groups out, because either white men do it more, or all men do it.

And I’m sick of it.

Call them all out. Collectively, individually and severally.

Victims have been let down for far too long.

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 20:58

He's seized on it because a Labour mp has turned down a natinal enquiry. I'm sure if she does the same for the church he will be outraged also.

Personally I think the whole Justin wellby debacle and his higher than all of bishops are deplorable.

We do not protect our children enough and sentences and approaches are too lenient.

Clavinova · 03/01/2025 20:59

MrsSchrute · 03/01/2025 20:33

Nazir Afzal, former chief prosecutor and someone who played a key role in prosecuting the rape gangs, has said:

'For those of you suggesting a national public inquiry into so called grooming gangs will deliver accountability
Do you know that the grand total of people brought to justice following the Hillsborough, Grenfell, Post Office, Infected Blood & Bloody Sunday public inquiries is ONE?'

I think that he knows far more about the situation than anyone on this thread, and so his opinion has weight.

That didn't stop Nazir Afzal pursuing Dominic Cummings and Boris Johnson:

https://bylinetimes.com/2021/02/04/nazir-afzal-ex-chief-prosecutor-launches-legal-campaign-to-uncover-the-truth-behind-governments-covid-19-failures/

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/feb/05/dominic-cummings-durham-police-reject-dossier-of-evidence-on-lockdown-journeys

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 21:02

@Atissues how can anyone read that and decide they should investigate themselves.

DowntonNabby · 03/01/2025 21:03

Snowangles · 03/01/2025 20:58

He's seized on it because a Labour mp has turned down a natinal enquiry. I'm sure if she does the same for the church he will be outraged also.

Personally I think the whole Justin wellby debacle and his higher than all of bishops are deplorable.

We do not protect our children enough and sentences and approaches are too lenient.

There's already been a public inquiry! We don't need to waste millions more of taxpayers' money discussing the whys and whos. What's needed is money being spent on more police boots on the ground within those communities to stamp it out, a functional courts system that actually processes and convicts rapists, more prisons and tougher sentences.

And, sorry, but Musk wouldn't be outraged by no public inquiry for the church. Because those abusers are white and Musk's stance is unapologetically anti-immigration.

Totallymessed · 03/01/2025 21:03

@MrsSchrute I also think Nazir Afzal, as someone who has worked in a senior position at the CPS, has a clear conflict of interest here, regardless of his involvement in prosecuting child rapists. The CPS comes in for a lot of criticism in the report.

Longtimelurkerfinallyposts · 03/01/2025 21:05

Glad to see all the posters agreeing that we should never turn a blind eye to child sexual exploitation, and take action whenever it happens.

For those who don't know, Rupert Lowe is a hypocritical scumbag. He was the Chair of Southampton Football Club for a decade, and throughout that time did nothing at all about the abuse carried out by coach Bob Higgins.

https://www.itv.com/news/meridian/2021-11-26/report-into-abuse-by-southampton-coach-bob-higgins-finds-missed-opportunities

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