Brothers convicted of grooming teenaged girls.

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.thesun.co....ws/article4478452.ece

http://www.indiavisio...-schoolgirls-for-sex/

It would appear that this case is being given a low profile, but how much longer is it going to be before the authorities grasp the nettle and take the necessary measures to address this problem of Asians and young white girls?

[jno]

it's been on the BBC, I don't know how low-profile that is

http://www.bbc.co.uk/...d-shropshire-19181714

But if you're thinking the governmetn should see to it that there are fewer vulnerable young girls around, I fear their policies will have the opposite effect by making poor people poorer. Bankers' daughters will be okay but they are seldom victims of groomers anyway.

[Zeuhl]

<take the necessary measures>

What do you suggest?

as jno has stated, fewer young girls neglected by their families and ignored by their communities would help the situation.

I suppose we could put all asian men between the ages of 16 and 70 into concentration camps - that would help too.

But that might leave our hospitals and health centres short of doctors and force the closure of many opticians, restaurants and convenience stores we often rely on.

[Gromit]

Low profile? The Sun sells millions of copies daily. You cannot get more widespread coverage than appearing in that paper.

Maybe the problem isn't that these girls are white, perhaps its because
- they are vunerable
- available
- poor
- badly educated
- not looked after properly by their parents
- not looked after properly by their care homes

If society looked after these girls properly, they wouldn't be easy meat for these perverts.

[sp1814]

AOG

"how much longer is it going to be before the authorities grasp the nettle and take the necessary measures to address this problem of Asians and young white girls?"

Which authorities, and what would they do?

[eyethenkyew]

Yes, it's high time that these crimes were rightly tagged as "racist" - had this been whites on Asian we would - quite rightly - have had them labelled as such. So why not in these instances?

Fair's fair, after all. I hate to hear about atrocities carried out by some Asian families on their daughters/sisters etc, and far too much of that is shovelled under the carpet. That in itself is reprehensible, and so is this, so let's not have this watered down.

Justice not only needs to be down,but has to be seen to be so.

[eyethenkyew]

Last line not "down" but "done" of course.

[sandyRoe]

Justice has been done. They're convicted and in due course their sentences will be handed down.

[naomi24]

As in all societies we have social problems, but the perpetrators are wholly liable, and there can be no excuse. Civilised people don’t prey on children or on vulnerable.

[sandyRoe]

Though there may be some grounds for mitigation in the case of Ahdel. Life can't have been easy being as ugly as that.

[anotheoldgit]

jno

/// it's been on the BBC, I don't know how low-profile that is ///

BBC Shropshire? I class that very low-profile, not wishing in anyway to insult the people in that lovely part of the country.

[jno]

shropshire is just where it happened, and so where it was reported from. The entire BBC website is available all over the country for all to read (unlike a local newspaper, say, which nobody but Salop types will ever see).

[anotheoldgit]

sp1814

/// Which authorities, and what would they do? ///

I thought that would be obvious, those with the authority to give out longer sentences and afterwards to deport all those who are not British citizens.

[anotheoldgit]

Blimey jno that was quick were you waiting with fingers raised over the keyboard?

[ChuckFickens]

AOG, Telford is in Shropshire, which is why it comes under that section on the BBC site, if you click on any (non-national) news story from the front page of the BBC website the stories will always be in the relevant regional section, it's how the BBC organise their site.

[ChuckFickens]

I'm obviously not a fast as jno :)

[jno]

I keep your threads up on giant screens all over the house, aog, and I have a rapid response team ready 24/7.

[anotheoldgit]

Zeuhl

/// I suppose we could put all asian men between the ages of 16 and 70 into concentration camps - that would help too. ///

/// But that might leave our hospitals and health centres short of doctors and force the closure of many opticians, restaurants and convenience stores we often rely on. ///

I copy and paste some of your reply, to give you and others another opportunity to read through it once again, so as to highlight how ridiculously absurd it all sounds.

[anotheoldgit]

ChuckFickens

/// (non-national) news story ///

Precisely my point Chuck.

[ChuckFickens]

You're being picky, you know exactly what I meant. if you look at the BBC site every single story that happens in a region is linked to that regions section.

national stories are things like "How volunteers made the Games" which don't have a region they happened in.