In Rotherham, 1,500 children—most of them white girls between the age of 11 and 15—were sexually abused.
In Rochdale, nine men who abused girls as young as 13 were convicted over a child sex grooming ring.
Amongst the authorities who should have known better, a fiction prevailed, that identifying perpetrators from minority communities – which might risk the spurious charge of ‘racism’ – was somehow inappropriate.
In Rochdale, for example, the evidence is clear – eight of the nine convicted were of Pakistani origin.
All kinds of people do all kinds of wicked things – from all parts of the country and of all ethnicities, but, as former Home Secretary, Sajid Javid and the current holder of that post, Priti Patel rightly maintain, that is neither a reason nor an excuse for failing to identify and punish paedophiles with common characteristics.
A common denominator in Oxford, Rochdale and Rotherham, was the use of Pakistani taxis, used to pick up young girls from care homes and schools.



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