1,400 cases of 'appalling' sexual exploitation revealed in UK report - Polidicks

[QUOTE]Hundreds of children have been systematically raped, beaten and sex trafficked in a northern English town for more than 12 years. And it is still going on, a government commissioned report says. The "appalling" revelations also expose cultural tensions and lack of communication between authorities and the town's ethnic minorities that may have helped stop it. Social counselors saw evidence of sexual exploitation early on, but turned a blind eye, according to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Exploitation in Rotherham. The city's government recently made the inquiry's report available on its website. And so the abuses amassed, which included gang rape and death threats at gunpoint. At least 1,400 cases of abuse went on between 1997 and 2013 -- a conservative estimate, the report says. This year, specialist investigators are handling 51 cases. Other teams are looking at additional cases. Torturous sexual abuse The exploitation has reached a level tantamount to torture, according to the report. "There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone," the report says. Some victims were not even in their teens. "Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators," the inquiry says. The report accuses politicians, social services and police of "blatant" failure to stop them, citing an inability to traverse cultural barriers with Rotherham's small Muslim community. [B][highlight] Fear of label of racism [/B][/highlight] The perpetrators often worked together and were mostly of Pakistani heritage; the victims were mostly white girls, the report says. An earlier report said that "Asian" gangs originally were exploiting women and girls "for their personal gratification" but later turned to making money with it, passing girls around. Social counselors often took a hands-off approach to the cases for fear of being branded as racists or stoking a right-wing backlash in the city. "Several (counselors) interviewed believed that by opening up these issues they could be 'giving oxygen' to racist perspectives that might in turn attract extremist political groups and threaten community cohesion. To some extent this concern was valid, with the apparent targeting of the town by groups such as the English Defence League," the report says. Though known victims were mostly white, the report delved into an underbelly of alleged systematic abuse by select groups of Asian men against women in their own ethnic groups. These often go unreported, because the victims fear vengeance or public shame in their communities, the report says. Perpetrators may be using that fear to blackmail these victims into continued sexual servitude. [B] Community left out[/B] Cultural differences also hindered effective involvement with concerned members of Rotherham's Pakistani community. Authorities turned to male community leaders and imams and greatly left out women. Many ethnic Pakistani women told the Inquiry that it made them feel disenfranchised and prevented people from speaking openly about abuse. Members of both genders said they missed any direct engagement on the topic by officials. "This needed to be addressed urgently, rather than 'tiptoeing' around the issue," the report said.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://edition.cnn.com/2014/08/28/world/europe/uk-child-sexual-exploitation/index.html[/url] [video=youtube;gwAhrU_wTdA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwAhrU_wTdA[/video] [QUOTE]What is their common purpose? Rotherham child abuse investigator “had data stolen” [url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/sep/01/home-office-rotherham-child-abuse-research-stolen-claim-panorama[/url] Police would not investigate for fear of breaching victim’s human rights [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11064944/Rotherham-Police-would-not-investigate-child-abuse-for-fear-of-breaching-victims-human-rights.html[/url] Rotherham police tried to disprove victims [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11062452/Rotherham-child-sex-scandal-watchdog-says-police-tried-to-disprove-victims.html[/url] UK police arrested parents trying to stop their children being raped [url]http://www.frontpagemag.com/2014/dgreenfield/uk-police-arrested-parents-trying-to-stop-muslims-from-raping-their-children/[/url] Rotherham victims had their babies taken away [url]http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2014/08/30/rotherham-child-abuse_n_5740868.html[/url] Rotherham child abusers “brazen”, says care home worker [url]http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-28974336[/url] Child abuse campaigner: Rotherham scandal is part of a “vastly wider issue” [url]http://www.theguardian.com/society/2014/aug/31/rotherham-child-abuse-campaigner-vastly-wider-issue[/url] Rotherham is not an isolated incident, says MP [url]http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/crime/11066244/Rotherham-is-not-an-isolated-incident.html[/url] The head of children’s services in Rotherham attempts to pass the buck [url]http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2736136/We-won-t-blame-1-400-young-girls-abused-rapists-loose-officials-charge-Rotherham-abuse-scandal-continue-pass-buck.html[/url] Rotherham’s Joyce Thacker follows Common Purpose’s progressive agenda [url]http://order-order.com/2012/11/24/progressive-culture-war-caused-rotheram-ukip-child-catcher/[/url] Rotherham Council spent thousands of pounds on Common Purpose training for staff [url]https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/40979/response/104543/attach/html/3/Scanned%20Invoices%20from%20RBT%201.pdf.html[/url] Common Purpose [url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Purpose_UK[/url] A secret society? [url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7929210.stm[/url][/QUOTE]

can people seriously stop posting that dickhead in the video

I thought we'd gotten over posting this moron's videos?

I misread title as 'appealing' and expected a much creepier thread.

This has already been posted before, can't find the thread though.

[QUOTE=Araknid;45887556]can people seriously stop posting that dickhead in the video[/QUOTE] "I don't like what this guy is saying, STOP POSTING HIM!!!"

[QUOTE=Shobrug;45887651]"I don't like what this guy is saying, STOP POSTING HIM!!!"[/QUOTE] If we simply didn't like what he was saying, we'd just politely disagree (or refrain from getting involved). But this guy spews fallacies and bigotry out the wazoo, and although he raises some good points, he does it in such a dickish way that most of his videos are unbearable.

[QUOTE=Jamsponge;45887919]If we simply didn't like what he was saying, we'd just politely disagree (or refrain from getting involved). But this guy spews fallacies and bigotry out the wazoo, and although he raises some good points, he does it in such a dickish way that most of his videos are unbearable.[/QUOTE] Even if he's being dick-ish, it has nothing to do with whether what he's saying is true. Facepunch that's know to carter and even be the loving home of pedos and social justice warriors. can't handle a 6 min video where a guy is being dickish, okay.

This thread is phenomenally late. We've done this topic to death already. [QUOTE=Sgt Doom;45806499][QUOTE=ROFLBURGER;45806368]Care to elaborate on that first part?[/QUOTE]In every other article than the Daily Mail, being seen as racist was listed as but one of a whole laundry list of failings. The actual report is available for public viewing as well, and goes into a lot more detail while not being impenetrable. As usual with offical reports and other sources, news publications see into it what they want to see. The Guardian should at least be commended for linking to the actual report, something which news sources don't do often enough nowadays. [URL]http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham[/URL][/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Raidyr;45810276]Nope. Here are the titles of the three sources you included on the story but not the title: Guardian: [B]"About 1,400 Rotherham children 'sexually exploited over a 16-year period'" [/B]The Irish Times: [B]"1,400 children in Rotherham 'sexually exploited' over 16 years"[/B] ABC News: [B]"Report Finds 1,400 Children Exploited In UK Town"[/B] Here is the title of the Daily Mail, the one source you used for the title Daily Mail: [B]"REVEALED: How fear of being seen as racist stopped social workers saving up to 1,400 children from sexual exploitation at the hands of Asian men in just ONE TOWN"[/B] If you actually read the [URL="http://www.rotherham.gov.uk/downloads/file/1407/independent_inquiry_cse_in_rotherham"]report [/URL](and you should, it's incredibly well done) you realize why established yet wholly unrelated names in journalism decided to use roughly the same title while Daily Mail, the tabloid rag that FP (and most reasonable people) categorically reject uses another. Because it's sensationalist bullshit. While some senior officials wanted to downplay the ethnic aspects of it, this is one tiny part of the report. A few lines out of over a hundred pages. Far more pressing concerns was the general beaucratic disconnect that child services in that area had with the community. We rant about political correctness in this thread when the report itself says that people who were responsible for protecting these children were outright disdainful of them. Some officials thought the stats were inflated. Others outright tried to clamp down on the reports in a classic case of trying to sweep it under the rug. There were so many more problems key to the fundamental failure of CPS in this case than a few staffers who didn't want to be called racist if you actually [I]read the report. [/I] Ordinarily your misleading, sensationalist clickbait isn't really anymore than annoying but this is a seriously dangerous attitude to have when approaching a topic that so threatens society. That you would collaborate with the Daily Mail to cover such a serious story solely through the lens of yet another political correctness/race baiting manufactured controversy, obfuscating the truth about sexually abused [B]children [/B]in the process, is frankly disgusting.[/QUOTE]