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

When DSD moved to Southall with her mum aged 18 she'd stay with us at weekends and started sounding more and more like Tommy Robinson. I was horrified. But then I asked her questions and started to better understand her change of attitude.

DSD had natural long blonde hair. She's tall and very curvy. Southall has a very large South East Asian community and she told me Asian men muttered obscenities and made disgusting gestures at her in the street all the time. They also bounced aggressively on the bonnet of her car at the lights. It seemed a young blonde driving her own car infuriated these guys. The whole business was really intimidating.

DSD is a Londoner (her two best friends were, etc ) and no shrinking violet but she found the environment of Southall really oppressive. Had she been younger i might have feared for her. She was very relieved when they moved.

That sounds like men in general rather than anybody in particular. I’m sure women have experiences of the same thing happening to them in places like Plymouth or Buxton or Kendal, where there is no established Pakistani population to pin the blame on.

@Swiftasthewind Do you not believe culture plays a part in how men act towards women? Do all men treat women the same regardless of the culture they come from?

It confuses me that a section of the left do seem to think that all men are equally misogynistic regardless of the effects of culture yet they also tend to be big on educating men, like the types to say you should teach men not rape instead of teaching women what to do to prevent it etc. But surely education would be meaningless if all men are the same regardless of how they’re taught to treat women.

I've lived in Southall

PP is correct

You're talking bollocks and you know it

And in Southall it would mostly be Sikhs, who wouldn't take kindly to being lazily described as Pakistani.

There was a question hanging over Hounslow borough council . Perhaps it will be part of the reopened investigation.

www.mylondon.news/news/west-london-news/we-dont-want-create-panic-32466875

When I was a teen growing up in Singapore, the Little India area was notorious for sexual harassment. I unfortunately had to pass through the area to change buses on the way to school and the harassment was daily, men trying to touch you, rub against you constantly, even walking along the road. The culture has improved a little but I'd still advise caution as I would any woman travelling in India. I am of indian descent myself. It is absolutely not racist to call out predatory behaviour wherever it exists, in any culture or religion.