In Great Britain, young girls are raped by organized groups of men

The same Metropolitan Police that mobilized 100 witnesses, 400 statements, and reconstructed floor plans for Russell Brand’s case — 10 years for a comedian.

What did the same British justice system do when the victims were girls of 11, 12, and 13 — raped by organized groups of Muslim men?

According to the 2014 Jay Report: police treated many of them with contempt. They weren’t victims. They were troubled girls who had made a lifestyle choice. Eleven years old. And they had made a lifestyle choice.

Children were sexually exploited by men who came largely from the Muslim men of the Pakistani Heritage Community. Not enough was done to acknowledge this, to stop it happening, to protect children, to support victims and to apprehend perpetrators.

Published on August 26, 2014, the Jay Report (conducted by Professor Alexis Jay for the Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council) revealed that an estimated 1,400 children—mostly vulnerable girls from care backgrounds—were subjected to systematic child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, between 1997 and 2013.

Key Findings of the Report

• Scale of Abuse: At least 1,400 children as young as 11 suffered severe abuse, including gang rape, physical violence, being doused in petrol, and trafficking to other English cities.
• Perpetrators: The majority of the abusers identified by victims were of Pakistani/Asian heritage, with local taxi drivers frequently acting as a central mechanism for picking up victims from schools and care homes.
• Institutional Failures: The report highlighted a “collective failure” by both Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police. Police officers frequently treated young victims with contempt, dismissing them as “undesirables”, while social work and council staff saw their warnings met with indifference, scorn, or instructions to ignore the ethnic origins of the perpetrators out of fear of appearing racist.

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