Police and social workers were last night accused of failing to investigate an Asian paedophile gang for fear of being perceived as racist, allowing them to prey on up to 50 young white girls.
By Nigel Bunyan
08 May 2012, 10:00 p.m.
The Telegraph
The nine men from Rochdale were yesterday convicted of abusing five vulnerable teenagers after plying them with alcohol, food and small sums of money in return for sex.
The true number of victims, who were "passed around" by the gang, is likely to be nearer to 50, police have admitted.
Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service have now apologised after they failed to bring the case of the first victim - Girl A - to trial following her cry for help in August 2008.
13 year-old victim became pregnant and had the child aborted while another was forced to have sex with 20 men in one night, Liverpool Crown Court heard.
Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored because they were "petrified of being called racist", former Labour MP for Keighley Ann Cryer said.
Mrs. Cryer, who has campaigned to bring the issue of Asian sex gangs to light, said the girls had been "betrayed" and condemned to "untold misery" by the police and social services.
(Clockwise from top left) Abdul Qayyum, Rochdale rape victim known as Girl E, Kabeer Hassan, Qamar Shahzad and Abdul Rauf (Getty Images/Anita Maric /newsteam)
"This is an absolute scandal. They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness," she said.
"They had a greater fear of being perceived in that light than in dealing with the issues in front of them."
Girl A told police that she had been raped and provided DNA evidence from her attacker, however the CPS twice decided not to prosecute him.
The 15 year-old's abuse continued and at its height she was being driven to flats and houses to be raped by up to five men a night, four or five days a week. She was singled out because she was white, vulnerable and under-age.
Her ordeal only ended when her teachers forced social workers to intervene after she fell pregnant and they became concerned by the number of Asian men picking her up from school.
Girl A said that in a six-hour interview she gave police details about her abusers and where the attacks took place. Crucially, too, she handed officers underwear that proved she had been raped by two men in a single attack.
"I hoped they were going to do something and it would stop," she said.
"But it just carried on. It just started again with different men and more men this time, and that's when it started becoming up to five men a day".
Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old man who cannot be named for legal reasons were yesterday found guilty of running a child exploitation ring at Liverpool Crown Court.
Greater Manchester Police is now being investigated by the IPCC over the failings of its first investigation in 2008.
When GMP did finally pass a file on Girls A's rape to the CPS the following year, a Crown lawyer decided not to charge anyone because he said she would not be a sufficiently credible witness to put before a jury. A second CPS lawyer backed that opinion.
It was only after social workers notice an upsurge in cases of child grooming that police reinvestigated and made a series of arrests which led to yesterday's convictions.
It can be reported that the trial was delayed by two weeks when two Asian barristers quit the case due to intimidation by far right groups outside Liverpool Crown Court.
And a tweet from BNP leader Nick Griffin almost caused the trial to collapse when it led to allegations of the jury having a "far-right bias".
Assistant Chief Constable Steve Heywood acknowledged that officers could have dealt with the case "better than we did".
But he denied that the girl's complaints had been "brushed under the carpet" because officers were reluctant to confront the issue of race.
"At the time we did what we thought was best," he said. "We have learned a lot of lessons.
"The issue here is genuinely about vulnerability. It just happens that they are Asian men. In no way did we sweep it under the carpet."
Steve Garner, head of children's services at Rochdale Council, denied the teenager had been let down by his department.
"No," he said. "I think it's really important to remember that what we know now and what we knew in 2008 is very, very different and what we have done is put the lessons in place".
Rochdale MP Simon Danczuk said: "What's become clear is that if police had acted seriously on these concerns in 2008 many of the victims of this appalling case would not have had to go through such horrific trauma.
"It is simply unacceptable that these young women were let down in this way by people they should have been able to trust."
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Ya know? We really need to start putting people like this to sleep, it's that simple. I mean what did they do to those monsters that groomed and then most likely butchered Charlene Downs. The gauntlet had been thrown. Will any whites pick it up and answer the affront?
Sounds like PC forces have rendered police as impotent in UK as they have here in the US, though their media appears to actually acknowledge the race issue, a little. Mainstream media in the US won't mention it. Won't last long though, you can be sure the moneyed pro immigration forces in the UK are working hard in the background to scrub out any allusions about race and sexual exploitation in the media. Eventually UK media will be as silent as US media and asian sexual exploiters will continue to operate freely much the same way black pimps in this country do.
One aspect of immigration that is never mentioned is skewed gender ratios. The great majority of young single emigrants to Western countries are male. Many of these men come from countries that practice polygamy, sex based abortions or female infanticide. Marriagable women are in short supply and with sex selection technology permeating more and more of these 3rd world countries that have male child preferences there are less and less female births every year. I think this is just the beginning, I fully expect the waves of young male immigration to increase dramatically in the future. The PC view is that these men are searching for jobs and a "better life" no one will ever acknowledge these men also come looking for women. They can't marry in their own countries without money or status and they hear from men that have emigrated that Western women are "easy" and "loose" and they don't need to be wealthy to get them. Not as true as they think, in fact, adult women generally aren't interested in them but they find underage girls are vulnerable.
For those that will argue that Western men go overseas to marry foreign women, yes that's true, some do but statistically the numbers aren't fairly low. Hardly compensates for the MILLIONS of immigrants coming to this country, illegal or otherwise, the majority being single males (in the younger age groups). Also, we DO NOT practice female infanticide, aborting of female fetuses or polygamy (other than a few fringe groups). We are not skewing female ratios in this countries like many 3rd world countries are. We value our daughters in this countries and any country that does not and allows their sex ratios to skew in favor of males have no business exporting their surplus young men to the West. We shouldn't be allowing it. Period.
Media in this country will NEVER talk about this aspect of immigration! At what point in the mainstream media is there even a remotely realistic discussion concerning the impact of mass migration from the 3rd world?
Jerry
This sort of thing happens in America all the time. I'm sure you remember the young Cherokee male and his older friend who shot 6 blacks. Did you happen to catch the press conference w/the black lead FBI investigator stating that in his 20+ years he had never seen a crime so heinous? Well, a couple of days ago, I awoke to the news that 2 white teenage boys walking to school at 5:30 in the morning were approached by 2 black males asking for money, when told they didn't have any, one boy was pistol whipped, the other shot. I believe that boy is not expected to walk again. The same night a woman was kidnapped, beaten, shot & dumped on the side of the road. The media reported they were looking for 2 black males. About an hour later, the black police chief was on tv announcing that no descriptions of the assailants was available, as all the victims were in the hospital. Just last night a person was shot and another 3 blocks away was hit by a car. Makes me wonder if 2 blacks are wreaking revenge and the local police and media are going to allow.
I love the "asian" tag...conjuring images of rampaging koreans or japs or something?
They're too scared to even say pakis or arabs, which is the truth. Nobody thinks paki when they hear or read "asian."
So now the UK won't even arrest perps because they are brown enough to invite the rayciss tag
The police inaction and the media silence have been disgusting beyond words, but some honorable people deserve a mention. Apart from Ann Cryer MP, who is mentioned in the Telegraph article, the Murdoch-owned London Times ran several pieces about the scandal, and the subject was also the subject of a Channel 4 Tv program in 2004.
Then there is Detective Chief Inspector Edwards, who spilled the beans last year. He said
'No one wants to stand up and say that Pakistani guys in some parts of the country are recruiting young white girls and passing them around their relatives for sex, but we need to stop being worried about the racial complication.'
Then there is the British National Party, whose leader was put on trial for his comments on (inter alia) child sex abuse by muslim men. He was acquitted.
Of course, all these efforts were met with outrage by the usual suspects, but child abuse is too serious a subject to be covered up completely.
Anon, THURSDAY, MAY 10, 2012 12:39:00 PM EDT
Thanks for the info. Could you send me links, and/or more info on those cases? I'm especially interested in the racial attack where the media announced that the perps were two black males, and the black police chief then lied, and denied that he had a description of them.
NS Unfortunately the first report I saw was on local television station and I didn't record. But here is a link to story:http://www.newson6.com/story/18218386/teens-attacked-on-way-to-school-in-okc-one-remains-critical?clienttype=printable
NS
I've searched all the local news stations (kfor4.com, news9.com) & as I suspected they did not have the original story posted online, just the noon desk version. The black officer was a captain and not the police chief. Here is a link to the story.http://www.news9.com/story/18172416/teen-shot-while-walking-to-school-in-northwest-okc
NS
This is my 3rd try. I've searched all the local news stations and as I suspected they do not have the original report online, only the noon desk version. Also, the black officer was not the police chief but a captain. Here is a link to the story: http://www.news9.com/story/18218386/teens-attacked-on-way-to-school-in-okc-one-remains-critical
NS
my 4th try: I've searched all the local news sites, and as I suspected, they do not have the original report posted, just the noon desk report. Also the black officer was not the police chief, but a captain. Here's a link:http://www.news9.com/story/18172416/teen-shot-while-walking-to-school-in-northwest-okc
NS
My 5th try posting here.
I've searched all three local news websites & as I expected they don't have the original morning report at the scene online. They have the noon desk report. The black officer was not the police chief, but a captain. Here is a link: http://www.news9.com/story/18218386/teens-attacked-on-way-to-school-in-okc-one-remains-critical
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