I Don't Think This Is What Marvin Gaye Meant...

“She is walking the streets when she goes missing from home. The local Asian males got to know, through the grapevine, that this child would perform oral sex in return for alcohol, drugs and cigarettes.”

In other words, these 'Asian' (read, overwhelmingly Pakistani in origin) males spread the word amongst other males of their debased 'community', secure in the knowledge that their words would never fall onto the ears of anyone who would go to the police with this knowledge.

Think on that, the next time some 'Guardian'-reading muesli-chewer states that tarring all members of a 'community' with the same brush is 'racist'... 

The case was not proceeded with at the time due to the unwillingness of the girl to pursue the complaint, although semen was found on her clothing. It was later matched to Suman by police investigating him for the subsequent rape of a boy.

Words fail me.... 

"The revelations will add to the already serious questions about South Yorkshire Police’s handling of the investigation..."

You're not kidding!

Amongst the documents to vanish from the police evidence room at Rotherham police station are a teenager’s diary which chronicled her years of sex abuse at the hands of grooming gangs, a victim’s original interview notes with officers and a 14-year-old’s DNA evidence.

 Jesus wept!

Lizzie, who was groomed by a gang of Asian men from the age of 15, also raised fears that a corrupt officer told her abuser she had contacted the police.

She said: "I can remember ringing the police when I got attacked by one of them and somehow he found out and then he was messaging me, threatening messages. Now how did he find out, because nobody knew I'd been to do the interview and the statement?”

You won't be too surprised to find this story isn't in this morning's 'Guardian', will you? They are still busy taking out an onion for Kadiza Sultana or fretting about minor contract disputes.

Bet your life they'd be all over South Yorkshire Police statements with a fine tooth comb if this was a complaint from Black Lives Matter, though...

Express.co.uk wrote to South Yorkshire Police presenting the allegations to them and setting out a series of questions for them to answer.

We asked the force whether it has launched an internal investigation into the disappearance of material from Rotherham police station, and whether it is considering bolstering security around the secure evidence room.

We also requested details of how many reports of evidence relating to child sexual exploitation going missing the force has received in the last six years.

The force declined to comment on the issue.

Did they lose their boilerplate 'nuffin' to do wiv us, guv' prepared statement too?

H/T: Battsby via Twitter

Kier Starmer Almost Avoids Mentioning The (‘Asian’) Elephant In The Room…

The Jay report’s description of the collective political and leadership failures in Rotherham as “blatant” could not be more stark. Accountability is of course important, but we are fooling ourselves if we think this child abuse scandal is all about individual failings and that the dispatch of key individuals is a sufficient response.

Dunno about that, Kier. Depends on how many scalps we claim, and how far ranging we make it, doesn’t it?

At the heart of the problems identified by the report, the commissioner’s reports and the work I did as director of public prosecutions in issuing new guidelines on prosecuting child sexual exploitation in 2013 is a deeply embedded cultural issue about how we deal with vulnerable victims.

‘We’..? Don’t you mean, how you, the establishment, the lawmakers, the state, carry out that function?

First, the majority of victims do not report what is happening to them to the relevant authorities.

And those that do are ignored. So let’s concentrate on those first, eh? Then maybe the others might come forward.

The second feature common to cases of child sexual abuse and exploitation is that when individuals do pluck up the courage to come forward they are often met with a wall of disbelief.

Well, maybe that’s because some of the accounts are indeed unbelievable, and some of the people themselves are seriously doubtful, as Anna Raccoon has exhaustively chronicled.

But so what? Should we suspend all disbelief now?

A 2002 Home Office research report into activities in Rotherham, which was “suppressed” because senior officers did not believe the information in it, recorded that the police were reluctant to respond to missing person reports. They saw them as a waste of time and regarded the young women concerned as “deviant” or “promiscuous”, and took the view that if the young people concerned were not prepared to help themselves, no further action should be taken.

And I can see how some of the elder teenagers could be viewed in this light, but some of the victims were as young as 12. 12…

We need raw honesty about the cultural change required in relation to vulnerable victims. We have allowed a series of myths and stereotypes about how “real” victims behave to creep into our institutions and our decision-making.

Always the opportunist, eh, Kier? Desperate to push your agenda and happy to use any opportunity to do so, no matter how inappropriate.

The case for some form of mandatory reporting of child sexual abuse backed up by criminal sanctions is also overwhelming. The need for such a scheme is at its most acute where there is a conflict of interest between reporting and some other interest, such as reputation, risk of exposing previous failed responses or fear of being clear about the ethnicity of the perpetrators.

Ahhhh, you were doing so well up to that bit!

And have you checked with Hugh Muir that it’s OK to even suggest that this might have been a factor? 

Denial. It ain’t just a river in Egypt.

Suzanne Moore Knows Who’s To Blame For Rotherham…

No, silly, of course it isn’t Pakistani & Kashmiri Muslim sex offenders, not politically-correct police or complacent public sector workers, perish the thought!

I had wanted to stay in social work, but after a placement answering calls on what was known as the frontline I realised that most of my work would be sorting out emergency payments for food and heating. People needed money, not cod psychoanalysis.

It was also obvious that social work systems were not only failing, but under attack. First they came for the social workers (bearded do-gooders), then they came for the teachers (the blob) … this is how neoliberal ideology has been so effective in running down the public sector.

I’m only surprised she didn’t drag in Thatcher – surely someone somewhere in lefty-land has by now?

The running down of children's services to a skeletal organisation in an already deprived area is spelled out in the report, which talks of "the dramatic reduction of resources available

…

By 2016 Rotherham will have lost 33% of its spending power" compared with 2010. Buckinghamshire, by contrast, will have suffered a 4.5% reduction.

Strange that they seem to have plenty of money to afford a ‘Casual Ecology Officer’ and to run a huge staff dealing with all the favoured lefty issues, eh?

” Professor Jay said: “Nobody can say, ‘I didn’t know’.”…”

See no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil and....just evil

But look at all those people who are saying that.

And it’s going to cost us, not them:

Officials who failed to stop Asian gangs (Ed: They mean Pakistani-origin men, for the main..) preying on young girls for fear of being branded racist are set to cost taxpayers up to £200million.

At least 1,400 girls aged as young as 11 are believed to have been sexually abused in Rotherham, South Yorks, for 16 years by men who viewed them as “white trash”.But it is feared the real number could be more than 2,000.

Each victim could now be in line for payouts of £100,000 to £1million as compensation for their ordeal which highly-paid council and police chiefs failed to stop.

The sharks are circling…

One legal firm has already launched compensation proceedings for 15 victims. David Greenwood, of Switalskis Solicitors, said: “In each of the cases I’m handling there have been failings by individual social workers, but more importantly we’ve identified that Rotherham Council and South Yorkshire Police have failed to act on information which could have led to the arrest of perpetrators.”

Campaigners said the public purse will now be hit because taxpayers will have to pick up the bill for the shortcomings of top officials.

Whoever wins, we – the taxpayer – lose…