The details that have been coming out about this today and yesterday are so awful. This has gone on for decades apparently. These girls were sexually tortured by gangs and when parents reported it the police did nothing and even arrested the girls or their parents instead of the men, even though the girls were sometimes only 11 or 12! The cover up lasted a decade or more and impacted multiple communities in the UK, not just Rotherham. The acts were called consensual by police, and the girls were described as “child prostitutes” when they were actually rape victims.
Here, Andrew Norfolk (reporter for The Times) describes how a young girl went missing and was found drunk and nearly naked in the company of multiple adult men… and they arrested
her! They did not arrest the men.
Here is a video where police were questioned about it, with their lackluster response-
At least 1,400 girls were raped / sexually tortured in Rotherham alone - and that’s just the ones we know of. I think what makes this scandal particularly egregious is the degree of institutional coverup of crimes against the most vulnerable- children. It’s similar to the Catholic Church scandal. It just boggles my mind how police and government institutions seem to have covered it up or turned a blind eye to crimes against children, leaving so many young girls in harm’s way. And some communities still refuse to even investigate it. Just yesterday, Jess Phillips turned down a request for an investigation.
And I’m not sure the media did much to help shed light on it. Charlie Peters with GB News seems to be one of the few journalists dedicated to reporting this and in a recent podcast with Winston Marshall he describes being the only journalist at the sentencing hearing for some of these guys.
And since the sentencing details I posted up thread are from 2013, it seems some of these guys may soon be free to walk the streets of Britain again.
Here is a documentary on this scandal made by Charlie Peters / GB News-
