More arrests made in a second sex grooming case.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.telegraph....grooming-scandal.html

It's getting more serious that first thought, thank goodness the police are weeding these perverts out.

[emmie]

boxy, which is what i said. But if they are in the care of social services, why are they not being cared for properly. Why are there so many cases like this. It is a vile trade, and these young girls have been used and abused, so have no life, how on earth will they get on now having gone through all this. What is amazing is that any number must have testified in court, that takes courage, and i hope one day they get a break and a better life.

[naomi24]

You're so right Em. Children are taken into care - but no one seems to care because this is tantamount to neglect.

[boxtops]

Can't answer that, em - the report said "known to Social Services", not that they were in care - so they might have had very poor home lives. If you don't get love at home, some look for it anywhere - and from the reports, some of those girls were so drunk (after being plied with it by the men) that they had no idea what was being done to them.

[emmie]

boxy

http://www.dailymail....un-away-19-times.html

[emmie]

Harriet Sergeant article is quite clear that many are in care. One aged 11 ended up as a heroin addict and prostitute, that is appalling.
If social services, or these care homes, which charge a small fortune to keep these children, can't do the job of looking after them, then perhaps there has to be a better way. I haven't got the answer i wish i did. I reckon that many have come from abuse into the care system, which lets them down, and then they end up in as bad a situation. What a bloody tragedy.

[FredPuli43]

News works like that. The press suddenly notices a type of case, but doesn't play it up. But it thinks "We missed the opportunity. Next one that comes up, we'll give it everything, right from the off". Doubtless, kids were being bitten by dogs. When this was noticed, two things happened. The next one got big coverage and others got reported widely when they wouldn't have been. You may recall this happening.

These particular Pakistani Asians are just the same, in one way, as thieves who nick from cars; they are opportunists. If a satnav or a wallet is on view, the thieves nick it. They are out looking for easy pickings. Girls in care and under Social Services are often easy pickings. Ordinary young girls are not; if something like that to our daughters, there'd be trouble. And the offenders know that the girls they pick are either not going to complain or, if they do, are not likely to be believed. That's what happened in Rochdale. The first girl was 15. She got arrested because she was hammering on the counter of a kebab shop, shouting and making a disturbance. She then reported that she'd been raped. DNA,which later turned out to be of the 59 year-old ringleader, was found on her underwear. Nothing was done about it. She was thought unreliable. At a guess, someone thought that any sex was consensual or could be alleged so, and the jury would have acquitted, even assuming that the man was identified.

Nine months later, the new chief prosecutor revived the case, perhaps because other complaints were appearing and a pattern emerging, possibly because he knew the Pakistani community, being Pakistani himself, and gave the complaint more credence, possibly both those reasons.

Police are not likely to dismiss such complaints and complainants so readily in future.

We may expect wide coverage of all these cases from now on, too..

[boxtops]

Em, I take your point

[emmie]

what is so reprehensible is that they did not believe the girl in the first place. Do they not see these as children, imagine if it was one of their kids. The system has let them down completely, and those involved in their abuse should be ashamed. I said this before but i wonder what the families of these men think. If it was my brother, husband. son, i would disown him.