Leeds / West Yorkshire and injustices against women

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Time and time again, injustices and crimes against women and girls occur in Leeds and West Yorkshire.

Can we compile a list here? Obviously there's Saville and Mesmac, the enabling of prostitution on the streets, West Yorkshire Police going after Posie. And Rotherham.

Leeds is also the home of Mermaids, and it was Susie Green who made the complaint about Posie to West Yorkshire police, for being 'deliberately truthful' about Susie travelling to Thailand in order for her 16 years old child to have sexual reassignment surgery.

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What is CAN?

CAAN

Consenting Adults Action Network - basically a pro sex industry, pro BDSM group who use disabled people as human shields.

January 2018.

Heathcliffe Bowen, 50, was imprisoned for five years for sexual offences against young boys. He had been a trustee for four years at Yorkshire Mesmac.

www.thirdsector.co.uk/regulator-contacts-charity-former-trustee-convicted-child-sex-offences/governance/article/1455942

Sue Pascoe is from North Yorkshire.www.barcroft.tv/former-hunt-master-sue-pascoe-transgender-journey Sue was recently appointed as an inclusion adviser to Channel 4. Sue is a Tory activist. The invaluable R0wan probably has more information about Sue as there was quite a lot of reaction here to that appointment, as I recall.

August 2018

Mesmac calls halt to work with young men and boys at risk of sexual exploitation after Charity Commission investigates.

A Leeds charity has ended its “targeted work” with young men and boys at risk of sexual exploitation after concerns were raised about its safeguarding procedures.

www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/trouble-hit-leeds-charity-calls-halt-to-work-with-young-men-and-boys-at-risk-of-sexual-exploitation-1-9319354

Sue Pascoe has recently been made a director at Mesmac.

beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02958336/filing-history

Charity Commission report into Mesmac.

www.gov.uk/government/publications/charity-case-report-yorkshire-mesmac/yorkshire-mesmac-case-report

"We concluded that the trustees’ failure to report serious incidents to the Commission left issues of serious regulatory concern unchecked and unmanaged.

Through their actions, the trustees placed the charity and its beneficiaries at undue risk, thereby falling short on important duties around safeguarding and managing risk."

oh goodness, NewWomen, when did that happen?

About 10 years ago I think.

Women have been abducted off the street and raped, their attackers walk free because of the red light district.

I do not understand this. At all. I have lived in several European cities where prostitution is legal and at times, on my way home from some pub, I passed through the respective streets.

Neither will men approach you (a catcall, maybe), if you don't act with particular mannirisms that prostitutes use deliberately to attract males, nor would such an abduction go unprosecuted, no matter whether the woman is a prostitute or not.

Emma the intern was back end of last year/earlier this year.

Sue Pascoe has reported Fair Play and WPUK to the police for being 'hate groups'

Men in the UK do approach any and all women if they are just in the area even if with kids even if young etc

Friend went to leeds uni lived in an area with street prostitution she was forever being kerb crawled.

I've been asked how much more than once in London and was a grungy sort of person dm boots black leggings etc

Men in UK seem to go according to "don't ask don't get / no harm in asking".

Just my experience obv.

Former Lord Mayor of Leeds Neil Taggart was jailed for having thousands of child abuse images.

Article here

"Taggart was a Leeds City councillor between 1980 and 2014; Lord Mayor of Leeds in 2003/04 and served as chairman of West Yorkshire Police Authority between 1998 and 2003."

Well whaddayaknow

Whodathunkit

Feels tiinfoil hat but |I would say yes something is rotten to the core in the area.

Lest we forget..

The 61-year-old former West Yorkshire officer was a regular at the Friday Morning Club, a men-only meeting with friends including police at Savile’s flat in Roundhay, Leeds.

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-police-minder-mick-2464098

For the record

news.sky.com/story/ex-police-inspector-cleared-over-savile-call-10349295

Anyone else, in the light of NSPCC's recent weird policy feel a bit queasy about Sir Rodney Walker buying Jimmy Savile's Scarborough flat as holiday home and seeming pretty blasé about the abuse?

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/jimmy-savile-scarborough-flat-bought-1787149

The grooming of girls in Leeds and Bradford has been going on for over30 years. Not a huge amount of action when they go missing.

This came up in my memory from seeing a thread...

Lord Patel of Bradford (an ex social worker in Bradford turned lecturer, then peer, now the new Chair of the newly created Social Work Regulator)

www.communitycare.co.uk/2018/03/20/new-chair-social-work-regulator-announced/

with his invitee to the HoL, Karen Jones.

I'd like to know what he thinks about the grooming gangs and abuse of girls etc.

angryresistor

Yup. And Sheffield, Doncaster, Barnsley. It’s endemic.,

Here is how an other police force acted.

Ex-detective superintendent Alan Caton trialled something similar to the Nordic model in Ipswich. The scheme was introduced after the murder of five street prostitutes in 2006 by Stephen Wright, an ex-merchant seaman known as the Suffolk strangler and now serving a life sentence.

After leading the biggest investigation in Suffolk police’s history, he took charge of a multi-agency strategy to eliminate prostitution through zero tolerance of kerb crawlers and offering the women a way out of prostitution through an amnesty backed by intensive counselling and support. In the first two years, 140 kerb crawlers were arrested, with the option of avoiding publicity by admitting their guilt and getting caution.

Most were married or in long term relationships and had children. “When I asked the [men] about it, they said: ‘I am paying for it, I can do what I want.’ That helped me form the view over time that this is not right. Men should not be able to exploit and abuse women in that way,” said Mr Caton

The result, independently validated by the University of East Anglia, was that more than 80 women “made life changes to move on from prostitution”, kerb crawling and street prostitution was eliminated, 400 children were identified as being at risk of sexual exploitation and criminal justice costs were halved. Police and charities say the zero tolerance continues, with nearly all the women still out of prostitution.

The contrast with Holbeck’s hands-off policy could not be sharper.

From his twitter feed Alan Caton is still actively promoting the Nordic model and anti-prostitution campaigns.

mobile.twitter.com/accaton?lang=en

That's really heartening to hear, thanks for sharing Lass.

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Recent Yorkshire Post article describing Sue Pascoe's recent trip to Leeds for networking etc events

(extract)
"POLITICAL and business leaders can help to deliver vast economic benefits by collaborating to turn Leeds into the UK’s most inclusive city, according to an adviser for Channel 4. Sue Pascoe said that implementing policies to support a workplace meritocracy would help to unlock commercial and strategic benefits.

Ms Pascoe, who is working with Channel 4 to increase its inclusivity culture, added: “In our drive to see our standards of living increase, we’ve forgotten that it’s standard of life that sustains us and our diverse interlocking communities.” (continues)

www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/business/channel-4-adviser-believes-leeds-can-become-uk-s-most-inclusive-city-1-9332267

I found the juxtoposition between headline and panel photograph interesting