He admitted that he had had to balance his instinct to reveal the abuse with concerns that the story’s publication would both stoke the reaction of the far-right and lead to accusations of racism.
“If you’d asked me the day before that press conference how many young teenage girls had been groomed and exploited in Rotherham over the time period the report covered, I would have guessed 150,” he said.
He was “staggered” to hear Prof Jay reveal how 1,400 girls had been abused, trafficked to other cities, or had petrol poured on them.
“They were treated like sub-human species for the pleasure of these men,” he added.
Mr Norfolk had first identified a “pattern” of Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs exploiting white girls in the north of England and the Midlands in 2010, but came up against a “conspiracy of silence” when he tried to elicit responses from police forces and councils
*Here we go….*
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There does need to be some serious discussion about the overrepresentation of rape in some cultures, without bringing up the church or Jimmy Savile, or saying it’s racist. The people on r/India are attempting the same thing right now.
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*From the more indepth article…*
He admitted that he had had to balance his instinct to reveal the abuse with concerns that the story’s publication would both stoke the reaction of the far-right and lead to accusations of racism.
“If you’d asked me the day before that press conference how many young teenage girls had been groomed and exploited in Rotherham over the time period the report covered, I would have guessed 150,” he said.
He was “staggered” to hear Prof Jay reveal how 1,400 girls had been abused, trafficked to other cities, or had petrol poured on them.
“They were treated like sub-human species for the pleasure of these men,” he added.
Mr Norfolk had first identified a “pattern” of Pakistani-heritage grooming gangs exploiting white girls in the north of England and the Midlands in 2010, but came up against a “conspiracy of silence” when he tried to elicit responses from police forces and councils
*Here we go….*
There does need to be some serious discussion about the overrepresentation of rape in some cultures, without bringing up the church or Jimmy Savile, or saying it’s racist. The people on r/India are attempting the same thing right now.