When are we going to see a reckoning for the girls locked up for being victims of rape gangs?

[BettyBooper]

Just as the title says. When are politicians, local authorities and social services going to admit to locking up girls rather than going after the perpetrators of these crimes? For years.

For anyone who thinks I'm talking bollocks, local authorities who have a secure children's home earn significant amounts of money by (I have seen) cherry picking girls 'at risk of sexual exploitation ' to be locked up indefinitely by charging LAs a fortune and no-one does anything to go after the source problem.

This has been going on for years and years.

It's a national disgrace that needs discussion at the very least.

Girls should not be locked up for being victims of rape.

It is sinister that England and Scotland have appointed 'equailites ministers' who are both Stonewall handmaidens.

In what other situations are people being given power to direct official action, after being appointed deliberately to ensure policy and action follows an ideology?

100% this.

The World at One yesterday interviewed one of the victims. She was gang raped countless times as a 12 and 13 year old. Multiply that by all the thousands of victims and try to figure out just how many men are there out there, happy to gang rape a 12 year old child and think nothing of it.

And now where are we? These men are walking around freely, thousands of them, because all the people who turned a blind eye to this for fear of being called racist, are now desperate to cover there own arse.

The woman interviewed asked how people could care so much about the victims of Epstein and yet not care a damn about the rape gang victims.

Thank you for highlighting this. Fake videos are definitely a huge issue so even seeing this video if its exists wouldn't necessarily mean its real. Its pretty evident that Rupert is the victim of a smear campaign and the fact the media is blacklisitng him suggest to me he is doing something of interest

This is it.

The utterly horrifying thing for me is the acceptance of the institutions that are supposed to protect vulnerable children that nothing can be done to prevent these crimes other than to lock girls up.

A pp said that the girls go back to these men.

Yes they do. But this 'hold our hands in the air' attitude is exactly the problem. We shouldn't have gangs of men roaming the streets completely unaccountable and brazenly raping girls with no fear of any come back. The Mayor of London denying there is even a problem!

The scale of this horror is difficult to wrap your head around. But we must. And we have to stop blaming and locking up the victims.

Well said. Its absolutely barbaric its been largely covered up and has taken an independent inquiry funded by crow funding to even the victims a chance to be heard. Mass prosecutions need to happen including of those that covered this up.

Reports into the scandal have found some evidence of police being worried about racism.

But a much larger factor was the girls being seen as "slags" "asking for it" etc. Basically the same attitude as is taken when perpetrators are white.

I've not forgotten the Mumsnet thread where a poster was concerned about a home for vulnerable tennagers being opened in their street - exactly the group which maight be targeted. Most of the replies were on the lines of "I wouldn't want these undesirables in our street?"

I don't particularly want to get into yet another argument about Rupert Lowe, except to mention that the small group of young men who he's hired to run his movement - Charlie Downes, Harrison Pitt, Connor Tomlinson - are, or pretend to be a lot more extreme than Lowe. And I'm not a particular fan of Lowe in the first place - ask Southampton FC fans what kind of man he is.

If we're talking about justice for the victims, a man who welcomes open white nationalists in his movement is not exactly the ideal person to advocate for them. If you want to know more about Mr Lowe's inner circle, I am happy to give details.

By the way, just to be non-partisan, someone should really tell Ayesha Hazarika that cracking flippant jokes about grooming gangs, particularly when you belong to the perpetrators' in-group, is not a good look: 🇬🇧 𝙔𝙊𝙊𝙆𝘼𝙔 𝘼𝙀𝙎𝙏𝙃𝙀𝙏𝙄𝘾𝙎 🇬🇧 (@MythoYookay): "" | XCancel

Sir Keir Starmer KCB KC MP likes to harrumph about statements by Tory MPs, or Reform councillors who nobody has ever heard of, and proclaim "If he was on my team, I'd have sacked him!" I am not holding my breath for Baroness Hazarika to lose the Labour whip in the Lords.