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The Telegraph: How the grooming gangs scandal was covered up
The child victims of rape were denied justice and protection from the state to preserve the image of a successful multicultural societyby Sam Ashworth-Hayes, Charlie Peters
04 January 2025
"Safeguarding minister Jess Phillips' decision to block a public inquiry into the Oldham grooming gangs seems, from the outside, to be almost inexplicable. Children were raped and abused by gangs of men while the authorities failed to protect them....
"This reluctance is not new. Across the country, in towns and in cities, on our streets and in the state institutions designed to protect the most vulnerable members of our society, authorities deliberately turned a blind eye to horrific abuse of largely white children by gangs of men predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
"Over time, details have come to light about abuse in Rotherham, in Telford, in Rochdale and in dozens of other places. But with the stories released in dribs and drabs, and the details so horrific as to be almost unreadable, the full scale of the scandal has still to reach the public....
"Mohammed prepared his victim "for gang anal r-pe by using a pump... You subjected her to a gang r-pe by five or six men. At one point she had four men inside her. A red ball was placed in her mouth to keep her quiet."
"Her story is horrific. It is also far from unique....
"In Telford, Lucy Lowe died at 16 alongside her mother and sister when her abuser set fire to her home in 2000. She had given birth to Azhar Ali Mahmood's child when she was just 14, and was pregnant when she was killed....
"It had: at least 1,000 girls were abused in the town between
1980 and 2009....""In Rotherham, a senior police officer told a distressed father that the town "would erupt" if the routine abuse of white children by Pakistani heritage men became public knowledge....
"In the same town,
a senior police officer allegedly said the abuse had been "going on" for 30 years, adding "with it being Asians, we can't afford for this to be coming out....
"One of the bleakest cover-ups emerged in Rochdale. ... Across the town, girls as young as 12 were being raped by gangs....
"These stories cover only a small number of towns. The broader picture, however, is clear.
The consequences are clear, too: no police officer or government employee has ever been imprisoned for their misconduct. Indeed, in Rotherham, the harshest sanctions faced by the police were written warnings....
""No stone must be left unturned" in holding the guilty to account, "including those who acted to cover up these atrocities". For the guilty, Lowe's prescription is simple: "deportations and prosecutions, lots of them"."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/04/grooming-gangs-scandal-cover-up-oldham-telford-rotherham/ 
