@itsgettingweird I do agree with your point, and would tell my own daughter what to look out for, but I think it obscures some of the more substantive challenges in these cases.
Firstly the targeted girls often came from broken home situations - potentially not in school or living in a situation where they wouldn't receive these messages.
Secondly there often wasn't someone they could safely tell. I read several cases yesterday of girls going to the police or the council only to find that their abuser had been tipped off. In one horrible case, that she was told that her abuser had her sister - so she dropped her complaint.
This is what many people are angry about - that although individual gang members may have been prosecuted, members of the same community who covered for them - I mean blatantly were corrupt, not even just the do-gooders who looked the other way for diversity reasons - are almost certainly still in place.
From the Telegraph piece this morning on the coverup:
Politicians were terrified [of the impact on] community cohesion. This nervousness meant that there was “a sense that it was the Pakistani heritage Councillors who alone ‘dealt’ with that community”, with their having a “disproportionate influence” on the council: as one witness put it, “[my] experience of council as it was and is – Asian men very powerful, and the white British are very mindful of racism and frightened of racism allegations so there is no robust challenge”. Other concerns may have been even more sinister. In 2016, it was reported that a victim of grooming in Rotherham had alleged that she was raped by a town councillor.