Met Police set to reopen 9,000 cases in major London grooming gangs probe

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In some incidences, children as young as 11 who reported being raped saw trials against their attackers collapse and were left to become victims of further abuse.

Suspected grooming gang and child exploitation cases from the last 15 years will be reviewed as part of the investigation, Met Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley said in letter to Mayor of London Sir Sadiq Khan on Friday evening.

A government-ordered audit into the grooming gangs scandal earlier this year found there is “mismatch” in the way the Met and London local authorities record child abuse.

Baroness Louise Casey’s report said the force logged 2.77 contact child sexual abuse cases per 1,000 children, while boroughs recorded just 1.3 child-in-need assessments for child sexual exploitation and 1.79 for child sexual abuse.

There also appears to be a significant overlap between child sexual abuse and county lines drug trafficking gangs.

Full article here https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/met-police-london-reopen-grooming-gangs-probe-b1254846.html

I’m pretty sure that any building housing sex offenders or paedophiles would be burned to the ground by an angry mob.

For clarity, I would not condone this and I am not comparing asylum seekers to paedophiles. I am countering the point made that random hotels were not burned down because sex offenders and criminals offend.

Plenty of paedophiles have their houses vandalised and are tormented by locals. There is a well known case of this happening to a paediatrician when locals didn’t understand the difference!

Jimmy Saville's house in Glencoe was vandalised so many times they eventually decided to demolish it.

His flat in Scarborough and his headstone too. It went to landfill 👏

@Showerflowers I am so sorry you were raped as a child and that you were then treated so terribly by the police and let down. Your bravery and strength in the face of this, and at such a young age, was extraordinary. Your loving family and your foster children are lucky to have had you.

It's half term. Or, as it is known in universities, reading week.

Just as an aside, swiftasthewind is evidently clueless about the Catholic church as it not just white! I was at a Catholic comprehensive 40+ years ago with a range of children from immigrant families, different ethnicities and colour, just all Catholic.

swiftasthewind knows nothing about the Pakistani rape gangs either and doesn't intend to find out, because it doesn't fit their narrative. The people in authority who covered up and colluded were not "all white". They were mostly related to the gangs, related to the business owners, members of the perpetrating families. In one town, the local councillor in charge of safe guarding was related to the individual running the gang. The local MPs, school nurses, social workers (some of whom were white, sorry about that) who tried to raise the alarm, were sacked, threatened and accused of racism. Labour MPs Ann Cryer and Sarah Champion were expelled from the labour party for mentioning it.

@SwiftasthewindI work with the victims of the rape gangs. I see things very clearly and you need to appreciate that your luxury beliefs ARE the current British problem for these women. The denial of the vulnerability of the white working class victims and coddling of rapists due to their ethnicity. Read what the victims have said this week. Look at the scorn they pour on your views. Or will you not believe poor working class women? Seems pretty bigoted to me.

This make me feel sick. How much more needs to go on before the justice system and goverment actually does it's job.

Thank you for the work you do helping victims of child sexual exploitation. I hope those girls see justice.

I hope those girls see justice.

Really? All of them? At least one is a vocal supporter of Reform, you know. Does she deserve justice too?

Rather a lot more unfortunately as we clearly have to work to counteract those that would obscure the issue into oblivion like Jess Phillips and the likes of Swift.

WTF

To clarify: by Swiftasthewind's political purity criteria, that woman would not deserve justice.

I believe she does, of course, irrespective of her personal beliefs.

This seems particularly egregious considering the Lambeth Council scandal. Wasn't that a never again moment; lessons have not been learned.
Staff and councillors presided over a "culture of cover-up" that led to more than 700 children in south London care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found.The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse strongly criticised Lambeth Council for allowing abuse in five homes from the 1960s to the 1990s.It said abusers were able to to infiltrate homes and the foster system.Lambeth Council has made an unreserved apology to the victims.And a former council leader said the authority had "clearly failed" and she should have known about the abuse.The Metropolitan Police also apologised "for when we let children in the care of Lambeth down".

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-57984924

I am just so sorry, you were treated appallingly. I think it would be entirely understandable if you wanted it to stay in the past for you 💐

I have nothing but disgust for our police forces at the moment.

I heard about that woman who sued her rapist and managed to get 400k in damages. I do wonder if suing the police as well may be the only way anything shifts on this.

Astonishing figures.

You see, I think this is just a mealy mouthed apology because they have been found out. This kind of thing has gone on everywhere, for years, decades. I am in my 70s and I can remember many similar scandals that were obvious to just about everybody except the people who should have been safeguarding.

Does anyone remember the Orkney abuse scandal in the 90s? Absolute insanity. Yet the sensible people were ignored and the professionals were swept along with it all.

@Greyskyblueskycan you clarify? Do you think a reform voting does not deserve justice for rape?

She clarified what was meant

I think all women deserve justice, regardless of their political views

Sorry, I think my sarcasm got lost earlier because I was angry

That poster was trying to imply that I don’t care because one of the victims is alleged to support Reform. As it happens I do want all victims to get the justice they deserve, even the ones who are foolish enough to think a party like Reform will have their best interests at heart.

You can't even agree that the woman deserves justice without also having a dig at her because you don't like her politics

Never miss a chance, eh?