Manchester Sex Abuse Report Released, and Why did Police Ignore Child Rape?
Manchester grooming report explained: how authorities let down the vulnerable children sexually exploited by gang
The 145-report titled An Assurance Review of Operation Augusta was written by Malcolm Newsam, a renowned child care expert, and Gary Ridgeway, a former detective superintendent with Cambridgeshire Police.
It finds that some victims subjected to ”profound abuse“ told carers and police officers about the sexual assaults, giving names and addresses, but no action was taken. It concludes: ”The authorities knew that many were being subjected to the most profound abuse and exploitation but did not protect them from the perpetrators.
“This is a depressingly familiar picture and has been seen in many other towns and cities across the country.”
The police operation identified at least 57 victims and 97 potential suspects, some involved with Victoria, and a “compelling picture of the systemic exploitation of looked after children in the care system” was established by detectives.Long ReadThe report looked at a “sample” of cases from the time, detailing a series of allegations of rape and sexual abuse made by girls that were not followed up and with no further action taken by GMP or the council. In each case the report concludes repeatedly with the same sentence: “We cannot offer any assurance that this was appropriately addressed by either GMP or Manchester City Council.”
As a result, “very few of the relevant perpetrators were brought to justice and neither were their activities disrupted”.
This was despite “clear evidence” teenage girls, aged 12 to 16, were being sexually abused “generally perpetrated by a group of older Asian men” including the police having their names, where they lived or worked, and the addresses of flats above take-away shops where the abuse occurred.
It included plying girls with drugs and alcohol, physical abuse, rape and being forced to have sex with multiple men at “sex parties".
I wanted to open this thread mainly to find out how the opinions of board members have perhaps changed towards the issue of predominantly Asian grooming gangs in the UK. A report commissioned by the Manchester Mayor in 2017 has been released, and it is positively damning as to the conduct of the police force. A criminal investigation has now apparently been launched into the malpractice of the police.
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Suspects identified in Op Augusta have also gone on to commit further sexual offences.After a child's death in 2003, police identified at least 97 suspects, but "very few" faced justice, the independent review found.
It has been asserted that this has nothing to do with the demographic of perpetrator, as well as implying there was no cover-up of the issue by police, or that these groups did not effectively get away with their crimes.They also found eight men identified in the investigation had gone on to commit serious sexual offences, including rapes of girls aged both under and over 16, after the operation was ended and that one suspect vehicle uncovered in the initial investigation was linked to a GMP officer, who was later dismissed from the force.
Is it not true that culture is related to these sexual offences? Is it not true that the police deliberately did not act?
The truly sad thing is, is that I don’t think Operation Augusta itself would have ever happened but for the death of Victoria Agoglia in 2003 due to a heroin overdose from the rapists that abused her. Society would have been content to ignore the politically incorrect reality facing them.
I was listening to Maajid Nawaz on the radio earlier, and he made a good point there I’m going to repeat to you.
Watch some of it here if you like.
https://amp.lbc.co.uk/radio/presente...rooming-gangs/
Maajid spoke to a caller, Daniel, about the revelation that the Rotherham police chief ignored the sex abuse of children because of a fear of racism.
The caller thought Maajid Nawaz was comparing "apples and pears" when he "kept mentioning Muslims".
Maajid Nawaz provided statistics about grooming and sexual exploitation, citing Rochdale, Rotherham, Oxford, Bristol, Aylesbury, Newcastle and Peterborough as examples.
Maajid said: "The pattern in all of these, overwhelmingly, is South Asian Muslim men, primarily Pakistani, sometimes Somali Muslims, sometimes North African Muslims.
"It doesn't help us Daniel to pretend this wasn't a phenomenon that was replicated across the country."He made the point that in Rotherham for example, where there were 1,300 girls abused in a town of 230,000 people, when you think that each and every one of those girls goes to a school, maybe a church, has friends, parents, grandparents, uncles, cousins etc, just imagine the racial tension that results from that. Just imagine. The quicker these things are nipped in the bud instead of ignoring them like the police did for what has to be out of fear of damaging race relations, the better."That's disproportionate number raises questions about our attitudes, our meaning, British Pakistani men, our attitudes towards the rest of society and whether we have a Muslim supremacist attitude."
He continued: "One of the defendants in this case, I'm sorry, you're not gonna like hearing this stuff but the truth doesn't necessarily care about your feelings... one of the main defendants in trial argued that it's his religious right to have sex with underage girls and that was his defence."
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/202...-grooming/amp/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-a9283146.htmlAn Asian grooming gang was free to roam the streets and abuse young girls because police officers were told to “find other ethnicities” to investigate, a detective has claimed.
Dozens of teenage girls suspected of being groomed and abused in Manchester by gangs of men from Asian backgrounds were failed because police feared upsetting race relations, a new probe has suggested.
Victims repeatedly alerted officers about sexual assaults, giving names and addresses of those involved, but, in almost all cases, no action was taken.
Now, a bombshell report suggests Greater Manchester Police and the city council shelved an investigation into what was happening at least partially because of the “many sensitive community issues” they felt faced with.“Concerns were expressed about the risk of proactive tactics or the incitement of racial hatred,” the 145-page independent review states.I think the discussion around having the will to speak about issues regardless of whether people call you racist, and around political correctness more widely needs to come to a satisfactory conclusion if we’re gonna overcome this madness. People like Ann Cryer and Sarah Champion, both Labour MPs who were ridiculed and called racist just for speaking out about abuse in Labour council areas. Sarah Champion was actually kickes out of the front bench for raising the issue just because the party didn’t want her optics to affect it.The force had, at that time, just finished dealing with unrelated cases involving the Kurdish community that had created severe tensions and officers were keen not to be seen targeting another minority group, it is suggested.
I also want to add, if your first reaction to this is to become defensive and try to defend the feelings of Pakistani men who may be offended by this instead of the children who were groomed and raped, you may need to re-evaluate your approach to issues relating to race and religion.
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, really? I would've thought the police ignoring these apparently mostly (if not entirely) Pakistani 'grooming gangs' and letting their preying on mostly white girls spiral out of control might just contribute quite a bit more to Pakistani/Anglo tensions than if they had just quickly and effectively cracked down on the former's activities. People don't tend to get angry enough to become vigilantes or form lynch mobs when they can trust the law to be fair and concerned with handing down actual justice rather than trying to look good and politically correct, after all.
