A new report on Britain’s predominantly Muslim rape gangs has found that police and local officials repeatedly failed to safeguard children or even investigate their rapes at the hands of mostly Pakistani men. Investigators identified 96 men still at large despite being a potential threat to children, and vindicated whistleblowers in Greater Manchester Police (GMP) and social services who were targeted for exposing official failures.
Thousands of young, mostly white, British children were systematically groomed and often repeatedly raped by mostly Pakistani Muslim men in British towns from the early 2000s.
The report flagged many examples of the authorities failing victims, including Victoria Agoglia, a 15-year-old girl killed by a groomer who injected her with heroin. Agoglia reported her abuse to the police, and it was known she was being plied with alcohol and drugs and raped, but officials failed to intervene or implement changes following her death in 2003.
Another victim, named as Amber, had her substantial evidence against her abusers essentially thrown away with no action taken. She was even named as a “co-conspirator” in a separate case.
Other horror stories include that of Child 44, whose aborted child was taken by police without her consent or knowledge and lost in a freezer. Child 41’s abuse was not actioned because a detective believed she “appeared a willing participant” in her own rapes.
Despite the victims of Rochdale grooming gangs being overwhelmingly white, the word “white” appears in the report only twice. The report does not refer to Islam or Muslims, preferring to describe the predators as “Asian” — meaning South Asian — or Pakistani.
It also contained only one reference to the fact that officers’ failure to investigate grooming often stemmed from fear of being branded racist, beyond one quote from an officer who said he believed colleagues failed to stop cabs with “Pakistani-looking” drivers carrying children because “GMP patrols were frightened of being tarnished with a race brush for doing it.”
