On April 3, the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister Rishi Sunak announced a new Grooming Gangs Taskforce to assist police forces in investigating the serious problem of Muslim grooming gangs in the country.
As per the official statement from his office, the task force will have specialist officers to assist in the investigation to ensure the criminals behind grooming gangs will be brought to justice.
The task force will be led by the police and supported by the National Crime Agency. The officers included in the task force will have extensive experience in undertaking investigations against such gangs.
The aim of the task force is to root out the grooming gangs and put the perpetrators behind bars.
In a statement, PM Rishi Sunak said, “The safety of women and girls is paramount. For too long, political correctness has stopped us from weeding out vile criminals who prey on children and young women. We will stop at nothing to stamp out these dangerous gangs.”
Sunak also pledged to ensure the grooming gang members and the ring leaders get the toughest possible sentences for their crimes.
Furthermore, the Sunak Government will introduce legislation to bring the grooming gang leader a statutory aggravating factor during sentencing that would reflect the Government’s commitment towards ensuring the toughest sentences for the crimes.
In a statement, Deputy PM and Justice Secretary, Dominic Raab, said, “Grooming gangs are a scourge on our society, and I want to send a clear message to anyone who exploits vulnerable children that they will face the full weight of the law. This builds on the extensive action this Government has already taken to introduce tougher sentencing, and the reforms introduced last week in the Victims and Prisoners Bill to keep the most dangerous offenders behind bars, while making sure victims get the support they need at all times.”
The significant announcement came a day after Home Secretary Suella Braverman lashed out at the previous governments for ignoring the grooming gang menace in the country.
British Home Secretary Suella Braverman has also unveiled new plans to end child sexual abuse, after a number of reports into grooming gangs exploiting young girls. She said British Pakistani men are members of grooming gangs who are involved in “pursuing, raping, drugging and harming vulnerable English girls”.
She said, “Child sexual abuse is one of the most horrific crimes facing our society, it devastates victims, families and whole communities. The protection of children is a collective effort. Every adult must be supported to call out child sexual abuse without fear.”
Soon after becoming the UK’s Prime Minister in October 2022, Rishi Sunak said in a statement that people in the UK were scared of calling out grooming gangs because of political correctness.
During an interview, PM Rishi Sunak outlined how he would tackle the problem of grooming gangs in the UK.
Notably, several reports of vulnerable minor girls being sexually exploited have continued to surface in towns like Rotherham, Telford and Oldham in the last few years. Investigations revealed that police and councils did not act appropriately in time and failed to protect the children from the grooming gangs.
PM Sunak called it a ‘horrific crime’ and vowed to tackle the problem as a priority if he was made Prime Minister.
Report seeks action against sexual exploitation of UK Sikh girls by Pak Muslim gangs
The UK born Sikh girls have been targeted and sexually exploited by Pakistani-origin Muslim grooming gangs for several decades, but the authorities over years ‘recklessly ignored’ it due to ‘political correctness’, says a report released in 2018.
The ‘Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK’ report was prepared by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team (SMART) and Sikh Youth UK. It found that the police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints for reasons of ‘political correctness’.
“Since the early 1980s, evidence collated by British Sikh organisations has recorded cases of sexual abuse and exploitation against young Sikh females by grooming gangs populated by perpetrators of primarily Pakistani or Muslim heritage,” the report noted.
“Although not exclusively, offences are documented as regularly being committed within the structure of networks, including the nuclear and extended family members of offenders. This has, in turn, prompted questions surrounding whether young Sikh females are victims of opportunists or being targeted due to their religious heritage,” it said.
According to the report, the gangs of Pakistani men have been grooming British Sikh girls for decades. It called for an investigation into the pattern of sexual abuse cases which have been registered over decades.
The girls would be snared by ‘fashionably dressed adult Pakistani men travelling in flamboyant vehicles to predominantly Sikh dominated areas and schools’, it claimed.
The report said that while the revelation of grooming gangs targeting white girls in Rochdale shocked the nation in 2012, similar instances had long been taking place under the radar in Britain’s Sikh communities.
In the infamous Rochdale child sex abuse case, around fifty underaged girls, mainly native British, in Rochdale, Greater Manchester, England, were identified as victims of sexual abuses. In connection with the incident, nine Pakistani origin men were convicted of sex trafficking, and other offences including rape, trafficking girls for sex and conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child, on 8 May 2012 and ten more were convicted in another investigation in 2015.
Five Muslim men jailed in Rotherham child abuse scandal in 2019
In a child sex abuse scandal that had sent shockwaves aross the United Kingdom a decade ago, 5 more Muslim men have been arrested for abeting sexual crimes against white minor girls.
The men were part of the ‘grooming gangs’ in London that sprang up in the 90’s to lure white girls into their trap and abuse them sexually. All the sexual predators who have been arrested and convicted of the crime so far are Muslims who are either immigrants themselves or descendents of immigrants from south Asian countries.
The arrested criminals Abid Saddiq, Aftab Hussain, Sharaz Hussain, Masaued Malik and one other man subjected seven young girls to years of continued sexual abuse in Rotherham, South Yorkshire. The girls, who were all under 16 and “vulnerable and craving attention and love”, were targeted for the sole purpose of becoming sexual objects for these Muslim men between 1998 and 2002.
These men were found guilty of a total of 26 counts of sexual offences. These sexual predators, all from Rotherham and the surrounding area, worked as a group and would wait in cars outside girls’ schools, then gave them alcohol and drugs before abusing them. They then shared the victims amongst each other for their sexual gratification.
The Rotherham child sex abuse scandal and its prolonged enquiry and injustice meted out to the victims, casts doubt over the policing system in England as many wonder if authorities fear taking actiong against the predaters lest they be branded as racist. It has come to attention that several victims have with held themsevles from coming out with their harrowing experience as they fear that they would be branded as racist for naming Muslim men.
32 men charged with almost 200 sexual exploitation offences against 8 girls as young as 13 in West Yorkshire
An alleged grooming gang have charged 32 men with almost 200 offences against girls as young as 13. The alleged offences date from 1999 to 2012 against eight girls in Kirklees, Bradford and Wakefield.
Police say the men are charged with a number of offences – including rape, sexual activity with a child, trafficking and false imprisonment.
There are 196 counts among the defendants in total against eight girls aged between 13 and 16.
Cops say some of the victims were also subjected to offences when they were young adults.
Among those held by cops are 50-year-old Asif Ali, who is charged with 12 rape offences and Zafar Qayum, 41, who is charged with 17. Irfan Khan, 34, is charged with threats to kill and false imprisonment.
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