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Rotherham child sexual exploitation by Pakistani gangs

 

 

 

The Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal consists of the organised child sexual abuse of girls that occurred in the town of Rotherham, South Yorkshire, Northern England, from the late 1980s until 2013^[9] and the failure of local authorities to act on reports of the abuse throughout most of that period.^[10] Researcher Angie Heal, who was hired by local officials and warned them about child exploitation occurring between 2002 and 2007, has since described it as the "biggest child protection scandal in UK history",^[11] with one report estimating that 1,400 girls, primarily from care home backgrounds, were abused by "grooming gangs" between 1997 and 2013.^[9] 

 Evidence of the abuse was first noted in the early 1990s, when care home managers investigated reports that children in their care were being picked up by taxi drivers.^[12] From at least 2001, multiple reports passed names of alleged perpetrators, several from one family, to the police and Rotherham Council. The first group conviction took place in 2010, when five British-Pakistani men were convicted of sexual offences against girls aged 12–16.^[13]

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Rotherham Council's chief executive, its director of children's services, as well as the Police and Crime Commissioner for South Yorkshire Police all resigned.^[28] The Independent Police Complaints Commission and the National Crime Agency both opened inquiries, the latter expected to last eight years.^[29][30] The government appointed Louise Casey to conduct an inspection of Rotherham Council.^[31] Published in January 2015, the Casey report concluded that the council had a bullying, sexist culture of covering up information and silencing whistleblowers; it was "not fit for purpose".^[32] In February 2015 the government replaced the council's elected officers with a team of five commissioners.^[33] As a result of new police inquiries, 19 men and two women were convicted in 2016 and 2017 of sexual offences in the town dating back to the late 1980s; one of the ringleaders was jailed for 35 years 

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Grooming Gangs Taskforce arrests hundreds in first year

 

A dedicated police taskforce set up to bring down grooming gangs has supported police forces in England and Wales to make hundreds of arrests in its first year. 

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

In the last 12 months the crack team of expert investigators and analysts has helped police forces arrest over 550 suspects, identify and protect over 4,000 victims, and build up robust cases to get justice for these appalling crimes. 

Established by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak in April 2023, the Grooming Gangs Taskforce of specialist officers has worked with all 43 police forces in England and Wales to support child sexual exploitation and grooming investigations. 

Led by the National Police Chiefs’ Council and supported by the National Crime Agency, the taskforce is a full time, operational police unit funded by the Home Office to improve how the police investigate grooming gangs and identify and protect children from abuse. It is staffed by experienced and qualified officers and data analysts who have long-term, practical on-the-ground experience of undertaking investigations into grooming gangs. 

Home Secretary, James Cleverly said: 

Where a child is being abused, we must do everything in our power to protect them and pursue the perpetrators until they are behind bars.   

This despicable crime can have a lasting impact on a child’s life and I am pleased that in only a year, the taskforce’s hard work alongside local policing efforts has led to more than 550 arrests and helped keep thousands more children safe. I thank everyone that has been involved in this effort.  

But we know we must do more. Through our Criminal Justice Bill we are better protecting children by requiring all professionals to report to police where they fear abuse is taking place and banning sex offenders from changing their names to evade justice.  

Yesterday (Monday 20 May), the Home Secretary, James Cleverly, visited Essex Police where he spoke to the force’s Child Sexual Exploitation teams who have seen their investigations supported by the taskforce in the last year.

More than 400 officers across the country have now been specially trained by the taskforce, with more set to be mobilised over the coming months to root out child sex offenders. At his visit to Essex Police, the Home Secretary was able to witness first-hand a live training session of new recruits being upskilled in the specialist skills needed to work on child sexual abuse cases.

Minister for Victims and Safeguarding, Laura Farris said: 

I am proud that the measures announced by this government just over a year ago to clamp down on crimes perpetrated by grooming gangs has led to hundreds of arrests, and the protection of over 4,000 victims. 

We must continue to do more to support the police, placing technology and specialist training at the heart of our rigorous targeting of abusers who prey on vulnerable young people in the most appalling way. They must be brought to justice and face the full force of the law.

Crucial to the taskforce’s work has been the development of the Complex and Organised Child Abuse Database, which provides forces with a more robust data picture of the scale, risk, prevalence and characteristics of group-based child sexual exploitation than ever before, helping forces to deploy their resources locally in the most targeted way, and investigate without fear or favour around misplaced cultural sensitivities. 

The taskforce has built strong engagement with an expert Crown Prosecution Service team to build robust prosecution cases to put more criminals behind bars. It provides intelligence for forces to help identify and disrupt grooming gang networks by collaborating with the Tackling Organised Exploitation Programme (TOEX) which provides cutting-edge data and analysis to help forces identify suspects.   

The taskforce has also forged strong partnerships with hotels to raise awareness of the early warning signs of child sexual exploitation through Operation Makesafe. 

Ian Critchley, NPCC National Police Lead for Child Protection and Abuse said: 

Since the taskforce was launched, significant strides have been made to enhance the policing response to CSE investigation as well as co-ordinate best practice and guidance to further protect victims and disrupt perpetrators, through working closely with forces such as Essex .

Sadly, we know that CSE in many forms is still prevalent in our communities. The way we listen to, and support victims and survivors of these most abhorrent crimes is key to building on and maintaining the progress we have already made through the work of the CSE taskforce and dedicated force teams.

I hope this assures victims that when they take what is often a difficult decision to report to police, that they will be treated with empathy and respect and with the utmost professionalism . We are committed and dedicated to bringing more offenders to justice for these appalling crimes , wherever and whenever they have been committed and the taskforce are supporting force operations across the country.  

While it is important to acknowledge how far we have come, particularly in the last 12 months, it is essential we continue to learn and make changes to help inform and influence all our work, in particular working alongside children’s services and valued third sector partners in encompassing the voice of victims and survivors in all we do.

We are not standing still. It is incumbent on us all in society and different communities to prevent these offences that have a lifelong impact on victims . We remain dedicated to ensuring we identify, protect and support victims and are committed to the relentless pursuit of offenders to bring them to justice.

Gabrielle Shaw, Chief Executive for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (NAPAC) said: 

At NAPAC, we are proud of the work we and other third sector colleagues have been doing in integrating the voices and experiences of victims and survivors into the CSE taskforce.  

By listening to and acting on this, national policing will create authentic, practical change that improves victims and survivors’ engagement with the justice system. 

The CSE taskforce’s work is informed by NAPAC’s unique body of research on what victims and survivors themselves want. This research shows that for a large proportion of survivors, a positive outcome does not necessarily equate to a criminal conviction. Many want to feel heard and believed, to stand up and be counted without entering the court process and without fearing judgement or re-traumatisation. 

We look forward to police forces across the country continuing their positive work with partners, such as third sector organisations, to successfully understand and achieve the outcomes that victims and survivors wish for.

These measures demonstrate the government’s ongoing commitment to delivering on the recommendations of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) report to protect children from harm, and make sure authorities never again turn a blind eye to child sexual exploitation and abuse. 

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Partido Trabalhista trava investigação ao primeiro-ministro no caso das violações cometidas por paquistaneses

 

 Keir Starmer dirigiu o departamento de crimes públicos, e admitiu que etnia dos violadores interferiu nas investigações, por receio de acusações de islamofobia. Caso está a agitar política britânica.  O caso das violações de crianças e adolescentes britânicas por gangues de homens de origem paquistanesa remonta quase ao início do século (terão começado em 2004) e estendeu-se pelo menos até 2013. No entanto, só a partir desse mesmo ano começaram as condenações em tribunal. Durante anos, agentes da polícia e procuradores do Ministério Público britânico ignoraram os crimes, com receio de serem acusados de racismo ou islamofobia. 

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Donald Trump Calls for the Annexation of Canada

As “Leader of the Free World”, Donald Trump’s twisted narrative is for Canada to join “MAGA America” and for Justin to be nominated  as Governor of  the 51st state.

It started as a joke at Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence, which unfolded into bitter laughter.  There are historical precedents which are the object of this article. 

Both Donald Trump’s statement as well as the response by the Prime Minister of Canada border on ridicule. 

Justin’s failure to respond in his capacity as Canada’s a “head of government” was noticeably marked by ignorance regarding the history of Canada-U.S. relations since Confederation in 1867.

We cannot blame Trudeau. Our history books fail to acknowledge the US War Department’s “Joint Army and Navy Basic War Plan — Red” to invade Canada in the 1930s.

There was Laughter at Mar a Lago. But Donald was not joking. He posted  on  X (formerly Twitter) that “Many Canadians” in fact “want” Canada to become the 51st state: they would save on “taxes and military protection”.

While Justin Trudeau  acknowledged Trump’s proposed imposition of a 25% tax on goods imported from Canada and Mexico, one would have expected that he would have referred to the US Tariff Schedule (Duty Rates) contained in the 2020 “NEW NAFTA” Agreement between the U.S., Mexico and Canada to which both Trump and Trudeau were signatories 

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UK Prime-minister Keir Starmer responsible for pakistani gang rape impunity

 

 In a post on X, Musk wrote, "In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013."

UK grooming gang scandal, by Pakistani groups, reignited - Elon Musk, British MPs raise subject

 

 

Musk criticised the UK's handling of such crimes, directly calling out former CPS head and current Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Over the past 24 hours, social media platform X witnessed an intensed debate on the alleged grooming gangs scandal in the UK, with British MPs and social celebs like Tesla CEO Elon Musk, British author JK Rowling sharing their views on the issue.
Musk criticised the UK's handling of such crimes, directly calling out former CPS head and current Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

In a post on X, Musk wrote, "In the UK, serious crimes such as rape require the Crown Prosecution Service's approval for the police to charge suspects. Who was the head of the CPS when rape gangs were allowed to exploit young girls without facing justice? Keir Starmer, 2008 -2013." In another post, he wrote, "Free Tommy Robinson!"
 
Robinson is a British journalist who had released a documentary on the alleged grooming gangs and alleged rapes of young women. Robinson who is in jail was represented by his team on X that once again raised the subject of alleged rapes in the UK.
"Nicole's story. Nicole was raped and pimped at the age of 11 by members of a grooming gang in Telford, one of many, many cases in that area. A man is languishing in solitary confinement in a high security prison because he dared to speak out and tell the truth about this scourge - the industrialised rape, pimping, and molestation of little girls by depraved adult men. That man is Tommy Robinson, " a post on X from Robinson's handle said.

Meanwhile, author JK Rowling also condemned the crimes and questioned potential police corruption, describing the revelations as "almost beyond belief," citing an article of Telegraph by journalist Sam Ashworth-Hayes.
Rowling wrote on X, "The details emerging about what the rape gangs (why call them 'grooming' gangs? It's like calling those who stab people to death 'knife owners') did to girls in Rotherham are downright horrific. The allegations of possible police corruption in the case are almost beyond belief."

Former UK PM Liz Truss also wrote on X about the alleged grooming scandal. She said, "These appalling rape gang cases of girls as young as 11 shame our country. Not only do the perpetrators need to be punished. So do the authorities who turned a blind eye in the name of not inflaming racial tensions."

She added, "The horrific failings on rape gangs show the complete lack of accountability in British criminal justice. The proper role of Lord Chancellor needs to be restored (to its pre-2005 state), and the judiciary should be accountable to them. Ministers should be able to hire and fire senior Home Office Civil Servants. They should also be able to hire and fire senior police officers. Governments are accountable to the people and must be able to change the system. It's the only way to fix this country."

Great Yarmouth Reform MP Rupert Lowe wrote, "Reading these transcripts, these graphic descriptions - I am just so furious that our country allowed this to happen to those vulnerable young girls. It's not 'grooming' gangs, it's rape gangs - mass rape gangs. It makes me ashamed to be British, it really does."

Calling on for stripping of citizenship to foreign nationals involved in the the alleged scandal, Lowe added, "We must deport all foreign nationals involved in the rape gangs - stripping citizenship from dual nationals, and deporting them too. We must stop harbouring those wicked beasts who have raped and abused vulnerable young British girls. The most haunting question of them all - how many vulnerable British girls are still being exploited, raped and abused? Ignored and silenced, all to prevent 'racial tensions' due to the race and religion of the rapists.How many young British girls continue to be sacrificed?"

Newark MP Robert Jenrick said, "As the father of girls the same age, it's hard to comprehend the evil of the grooming gang perpetrators laid bare in these sentencing remarks. I will continue to campaign for whole life sentences. And for the prosecution of all those who covered this up." 

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Dinamarca proíbe hastear de todas as bandeiras estrangeiras

 

 

A Dinamarca vai proibir o hastear de bandeiras estrangeiras no país a partir de 1 de janeiro: o objetivo do novo regulamento é garantir a soberania e a superioridade sobre as restantes bandeiras do Dannebrog, a bandeira dinamarquesa, a cruz branca sobre fundo vermelho, “o símbolo nacional mais importante que temos na Dinamarca”.

Na verdade, a bandeira vermelha e branca não só é hasteada em frente a quase todas as casas, como também se vê nas roupas, nas decorações de Natal e até nos bolos de aniversário de muitos dinamarqueses, orgulhosos daquela que consideram a bandeira nacional mais antiga do mundo e representa o Reino da Dinamarca há mais de 800 anos.

Os novos regulamentos permitem exceções, como bandeiras hasteadas em embaixadas estrangeiras, mas será proibido e punível se cidadãos, empresas, associações, instituições ou grupos hastearem as bandeiras nacionais e regionais de outros países, bem como as bandeiras que podem ser equiparadas a estas por qualquer grupo. Da mesma forma, a polícia poderá conceder autorizações específicas para hastear bandeiras estrangeiras mediante pedido e, em situações extraordinárias, o Ministério da Justiça poderá isentar bandeiras da proibição. À luz da guerra na Ucrânia, o Ministro da Justiça definiu a bandeira ucraniana como a primeira exceção.

Por Francisco Laranjeira / Sapo

 

PS: Ainda se lembram dos apoiantes de uma deputada gaga que, no rescaldo da vitória, empunhavam bandeiras de Cabo Verde?