As I mentioned, there is an ama thread by a survivor of a grooming gang who gives quite intimate info on how these networks operate. They are bound up with paying back drug debts via pimping. I won't link here. (givehersome respite from the tubthumpers who'll tell her she was mistaken and unconsciously biased)but here is a quote
"My family have no knowledge at all, everything is a secret with me and my family, I don’t share anything with them because they’re religious so my family situation is a bit different in the sense that I won’t ask for their help if I need it. I resented my family for childhood abuse, I don’t have love for them so they made no difference to me in escaping from abusers, I became quite indifferent so the amount of affection they were giving me made no difference, I didn’t miss them either and the fact I didn’t share anything and had such a strained bond meant they wouldn’t have been able to stand in the way.
" Ours was not a conventional grooming, he was once a victim so he knew what to do to keep it more of a secret. "..
"The gang was quite dispersed, they had their favourites and it was like they chose who they wanted to pimp out and who they didn’t. Ours was unconventional, we was split and me and my ex were Asian and the other victims were white and their other abusers (Asian) were similar ages to us and we all knew each other, I know the boys first though
. Lots of using girls to pay off their drug debts, some were usual pimps, some were there just to pay debts and then never to be seen, others were there because they were involved from the beginning and were interested in sexually abusing girls and it was quickly obvious who was who. My friends loved me and the others girls understood I didn’t want to be involved like the others but three of other victims hated me, referring to me as “Mrs x” (the ex’s name). There were white people also involved, they were his friends, but theirs was more one to one abuse between themselves and who they made to be “escorts”, a couple older white women were there and if I didn’t have the support of my at the time friend’s families I think I would have became an abuser because in my mind I was constantly comparing myself to my friends and the Asian perpetrators and they fucked so badly with my head..."
This pattern of behaviour is the absolute flip side of honour violence. I know this because I see it. You are policed as a brown female. The only males you socialise with are from your own kinship group. In this woman's case that is how Hera user has gained access to her.
You'd think someone like Adam Ryan would if he or she were genuinely concerned about fighting racism and protecting victims, be pushing for more investigation into the clearly hidden level of exploitation among these women from those communities. But that risks angry shouty beardy guys turning up and calling him racist.