The ‘MeToo’ mob must stop hogging the limelight and help child sex victims
WE are rightly appalled by the abuse of desperate young girls by charity workers in disaster zones – and to a lesser extent by Hollywood moguls preying on wannabe film stars.
Not surprisingly, the actresses have hogged the limelight with their “MeMeMeToo” protest, while countless charity victims are consigned to anonymous crowd scenes.
All credit to British actress Minnie Driver, who quit as Oxfam’s goodwill ambassador, but we have heard little from the luvvies about Big Charity’s exploitation of their Third World sisters.
Now a sex scandal of grotesque proportions has blown up under our noses in affluent, 21st Century Britain, involving hundreds of young girls trafficked by sex gangs.
Actually, the only news is a serious case review showing this scandal is still going on years after police, prosecutors and town halls were caught turning a blind eye.
A shocking total of 1,510 KNOWN victims have been identified in the Rotherham area alone — a figure likely to be eclipsed nationwide.
Sex gangs were rampant in the North East long before police were forced into action by dogged Times journalist Andrew Norfolk in 2011.
Instead of prosecuting well-known gang leaders, they preferred to lock up the girls as if THEY were to blame. Since then, 112 men have been jailed for rape, sex trafficking and other abuse, including one gang of 18 last year. Even the UN and Big Charity combined would be pressed to beat that.
This should have closed a shocking chapter in which police and local authorities were complicit in the systematic abuse of vulnerable young girls.
Yet a serious case review by barrister David Spicer suggests predatory sex gangs are still out there, seducing and raping troubled children, some too young to give their consent.
Mr Spicer, a child sexual exploitation expert, chillingly warns: “ALL children and vulnerable adults are at risk.
“Perpetrators show remarkable persistence in targeting and grooming victims, undeterred by the involvement of police and other agencies.”
Authorities apparently have no idea why.
Clearly, there is nothing to be learned from evidence the sex gangs are “mainly Pakistani” while the victims are “mainly white” young girls aged 11 to 18.
Indeed, I risk criticism for even mentioning a link. Eagle-eyed Miqdaad Versi, my good friend from the Muslim Council of Britain, will be poring over every word this morning.
So I must stress this revolting crimewave has nothing to do with race or religion, especially Islam.
This is about “culture”, a factor so mysterious Mr Spicer is seeking an official, nationwide inquiry to explain it.
Conveniently, this phenomenon helps spread the blame, for instance to Sikhs.
Some Sikhs were among the Bangladeshi, Iranian, Iraqi, Kurdish, Turkish, Albanian and Eastern Europeans operating in the Newcastle area.
The fact that, as a group, the culprits were “mostly Muslim” is entirely irrelevant. There is nothing in the Koran nor the Hadiths that remotely justifies abuse of women, is there?
Interestingly, “cultural differences” might also explain the charity world’s abuse of women in disaster areas — especially by so-called UN peacekeepers.
According to a well-placed charity source, many peacekeepers, paid for by the UN, are supplied by Pakistan and Bangladesh as “nice little earners” for their impoverished countries.
Away from home, some of them regard sex with local women as a “perk of the job”. Or as my source put it bluntly: “Anyone not wearing a niqab is fair game.”
Is it possible this explains the “cultural difference” that might be explored by those investigating the alarming depravity in Rotherham and elsewhere?
One of the convicted abusers actually complained about British girls’ “lack of morals”!
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Professor Alexis Jay’s 2014 inquiry into Asian sex gangs sparked uproar when she accused police and prosecutors of turning a blind eye for fear of being branded “racist”.
That charge stands today as the number of vulnerable girls abused by predatory gangs grows by the week.
The “MeToo” brigade of black-clad luvvies should look up from their own distressing testimony — and start using their newfound lobbying power to help women more vulnerable than they are.
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Thunder-faced “Tory” Anna Soubry is threatening to bring the Government down to stop Brexit altogether.
And two-faced Jeremy Corbyn is ready to lend her a hand.
Mrs May has no alternative but to face them down, if necessary risking an election nobody wants – but on this single crucial issue, an election she could very well win.
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