Culture
The UK's Coverup Of Islamic Grooming Gangs And The Child Sexual Abuse Crisis
British politicians and celebrities can often be heard speaking out against the specters of institutional sexism, white supremacy, and police corruption that haunt the West. But I’ve never heard any of them stand up against one of my country’s most terrifying injustices: its grooming gangs crisis.
By Freya India4 min read
Between the mid-1990s and late-2000s, gangs of mostly British Pakistani men abused, gang-raped, and trafficked thousands of underage, white, working-class girls across Britain. Between 1997 and 2013, 1,400 girls were estimated to have been abused in the town of Rotherham alone. Hundreds fell victim to similar child exploitation rings in areas like Rochdale, Peterborough, Newcastle, Oxford, and Bristol.