Groomception? - Expose into the far-right grooming of CSA victims

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Now that Musk is boosting up decades-old "grooming gang" scandals and shoring up support for British convict and arch-anti Tommy Robinson (likely to re-direct MAGA's anger at Elo's support for H1-B visas), a new expose is going to be released on May 2024, accusing Tommy and co. of being "groomers" themselves, both in the political and sexual sense, as illustrated by the case of Tommy Damano admitting to having a hook-up with an alleged "grooming victim" of Telford: https://bylinetimes.com/2024/04/22/spec ... loitation/

I don't want to hype it up, but as a developing case it's worth keeping an eye on.

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That's going to be juicy!

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Alright, found that investigative series expose, which I'll post per article here. Ready, set...

Go!

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https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/01/spec ... survivors/:

Special Investigation: ‘The Far-Right Is Cynically Taking Advantage of Child Sexual Exploitation Survivors’

Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening

Survivors of child sexual exploitation are being exploited by groups linked to the far-right, taking advantage of a lack of support for these vulnerable individuals, to further an anti-Muslim agenda around grooming gangs, a five-month special investigation by Byline Times has found.
This newspaper has spoken to survivors of CSE who were promised paid-for therapy, and were aware of others offered food, televisions and new clothes, by groups with links to the far-right, which then pushed survivors to speak out about their experiences of abuse at rallies.

The practice was described as “grooming” by both survivors themselves and several leading academics Byline Times spoke to.
Members of one group in Hull, with links to multiple neo-Nazi organisations and campaigners, told one survivor that child sexual exploitation was being carried out by “p***s”. After leaving the group, she faced a litany of violent threats and intimidation from its members.

Despite evidence, produced by the Home Office itself, showing that individuals from no single background or religion are more likely than another to commit child sexual exploitation crimes each year, narratives around ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ have become normalised among politicians and media outlets on the right.

Nazir Afzal, a former Crown Prosecution Service lead on child sexual exploitation and the prosecutor in the Rochdale paedophile gang case, told Byline Times that this is part of a wider pattern of the far-right weaponising the issue of ‘grooming gangs’ to further its own aims – with the narrative being used to recruit growing numbers of members and justify anti-migrant and anti-Muslim protests.
This investigation has uncovered that the far-right has been able to exploit a lack of prolonged support for often ignored survivors of child sexual exploitation by government and charities – which helps to explain why survivors are susceptible to any support such groups claim to offer.

Grooming and Threats

Lara (not her real name) did not know what to expect when she was told to attend a meeting by United Hull.
Having attempted to access NHS mental health support for “years and years”, a friend and another survivor of child sexual exploitation had told her that the group would be able to get her “long-term therapy and justice”.
She was desperately in need of support to combat the depression and suicidal feelings that were the result of the trauma of her abuse – abuse she said was never properly addressed by the police or other local authorities.

Despite not knowing much about the group, Lara decided to go along.
“I remember when I was getting in the taxi, I was literally praying, because I was finally going to get some help,” she told Byline Times. “I got to this pub, went in, and there were just lots and lots of men. They were there with a big banner.”
One of the men eventually approached Lara, telling her how “brave” she was for attending the meeting. He said the group would be able to organise psychological support for her.

But the reality of United Hull’s political beliefs quickly became more apparent.
Lara said: “They were saying abuse by Asian men was an Islamic thing, and that it was an attack on our country and our British values.” As she had been abused repeatedly by men from a number of different backgrounds and ethnicities, the narrative did not sit well with her.

“I remember going out for a cigarette and texting my mate to say ‘I don’t know about this’. And this guy came out and said ‘you’re a survivor aren’t you?’ and I said ‘yes’. And he said ‘we all know it’s the p***s doing this’.”
Lara decided to cut ties with the group. But, in the months and years since, she told this newspaper that she has seen a growing number of child sexual exploitation survivors in the area join it in search of support, justice and validation. These women have had therapy sessions paid for, received financial support, and been gifted televisions, trainers, new tracksuits, and more. Several eventually spoke out about their experiences of abuse at rallies.

Since CSE survivors are afforded lifelong anonymity by the courts, in order to give them complete control over whether they speak out or not, several experts expressed serious concerns about the potential re-traumatising impact of survivors speaking out at these rallies.
Byline Times understands that some of the women left the group after becoming aware of its political leanings.
Last year, multiple members and a leader of United Hull attended a rally held in Hull by the far-right group Patriotic Alternative.
Videos of the event show United Hull members standing on the other side of a police cordon chanting about refugees being “invaders”. They also screamed abuse at a CSE survivor who attended a counter-protest. Videos show that she is called a “c***” and a “bitch” repeatedly, and subject to thinly-veiled threats about the men knowing who she is and telling her to step away from the protection of the police.

Despite being a survivor of child sexual exploitation, Lara said she was called a “paedophile sympathiser” by far-right organisers of the rally for vocally opposing the idea of paedophile rings being a Muslim-specific problem.
“I’m scared in the house, these men know where I live,” she said. “Every time I think I’m going to do something about it, I think ‘they know where I live’.”
United Hull did not respond to Byline Times’ questions. The group has previously denied having far-right leanings. This newspaper understands that at least one leader of the group who was at the Patriotic Alternative rally left after his attendance was revealed.

A Wider Pattern

The story of United Hull is not the only one Byline Times was told.
Nick Lowles, founder and director of anti-extremism charity Hope Not Hate, said this type of targeting is a pattern he had encountered all too frequently as the “far-right have repeatedly exploited survivors for their political and personal gain”.
“In Telford, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, better known as ‘Tommy Robinson’, has made a small fortune recounting the stories of young women sexually abused in the town,” he told Byline Times, citing findings from the biography he wrote on Yaxley-Lennon, Tommy.
“No convictions have resulted from his exposés and several of the women have experienced severe trauma resulting from his films, with little or no support offered. Worse still, at least two of Lennon’s aides have had sexual relations with survivors in Telford, one becoming involved in a violent and abusive relationship.”

Representatives for Tommy Robinson did not respond to Byline Times.

Last year, Nigel Bromage, founder of far-right deradicalisation charity Exit Hate and a former neo-Nazi, said that many of the more than 600 people the charity had worked with had a history of being victims of abuse.
“A lot of these really young girls have gone to the far-right for protection – which they have got – but then they’ve simply been misused and abused themselves,” he told the Media Storm podcast.

John North, another former member of the far-right, told the podcast that it targeted people perceived as having “vulnerabilities that they can exploit” when trying to recruit members. That could go beyond survivors of sexual abuse to include those with neurodiversity, people who are socially outcast, come from broken homes, or have just been through a divorce.

“As much as you don’t want to give these guys credit, it is very, very, very dangerous to just stereotype [the far-right] as being a bunch of drunken idiots. They’ve looked into, researched, and studied ways of radicalising people,” he said.
Anti-fascist protestor Dr Louise Raw, a victim of childhood abuse, was called “a n*nce and rape apologist” and sent death threats by the far-right, for speaking out against its rallies.

When Yaxley-Lennon held a rally in Telford on grooming gangs, Raw was one of the counter-protestors. In a speech, she shared her experiences of abuse with the crowd. “I was just so angry about the far-right claiming to be the ones who care about victims and anti-fascists being labelled ‘paedophile protectors’,” she said.

Dr Raw told Byline Times that a friend who had been subject to “years of grooming” was contacted by several prominent far-right figures with promises to raise money for her to receive therapy. When their political persuasions became apparent, she tried to cut ties.
“At this point, these ‘caring’ and ‘victim-supporting’ people began to threaten her and say she should kill herself and that her children should be drowned,” Dr Raw recalled. “The far-right is cynically taking advantage of child sexual exploitation survivors. They are using victims to further their racist agendas.”

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https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/01/spec ... loitation/:

Special Investigation: The Network of Far-Right Groups Exploiting the Survivors of Child Sexual Exploitation

Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends

United Hull’s support of survivors of child sexual exploitation seems, on the surface, to have been a strange course for the group to take.
According to this newspaper’s research, United Hull was founded by several former football hooligans linked to Hull City FC. It was originally set up as a street protest group, aiming to force the local police to reopen an investigation – Operation Marksman – into an alleged paedophile ring operating in the area that had not been fully addressed by the force. It was a story similar to the systemic policing failures to tackle paedophile gangs in Rochdale, Telford, and Rotherham.

Over the years, the extreme politics of United Hull’s leadership and members became increasingly apparent.
The far-right Patriotic Alternative rally, which multiple United Hull members and a leader attended, was a turning point.
Dubbed “Britain’s largest far-right white supremacist movement” by The Times last year, Patriotic Alternative has become one of the most prominent neo-Nazi groups in the country.

Earlier this year, Byline Times revealed that the Equality and Human Rights Commission threatened the group with legal action after one of its campaigns – ‘Operation White Christmas’ – asked people to donate only to white families in need.
In the aftermath of the Patriotic Alternative rally, a United Hull leader who eventually stepped down said that he was “first and foremost a street protestor and a patriotic campaigner”. But he was not a singular example of far-right tendencies within the group.

In Facebook posts, United Hull members discuss patrolling night clubs to hunt predators, protesting and “guarding” proposed sites for migrant accommodation, and the need to “form an army like the IRA and defend our country”.
One United Hull member, Sam Melia, was jailed for two years in March this year on charges of stirring up racial hatred. A fan of Oswald Mosley and Adolf Hitler, and an organiser for Patriotic Alternative, the judge said he was an antisemite with Nazi sympathies.

Another United Hull member, Alek Yerbury – who has been subject to a slew of negative press for his resemblance to Hitler – has posted multiple times in United Hull’s Facebook group, including organising details for multiple protests at asylum seeker accommodation. Yerbury was also a leading member of Patriotic Alternative, before leaving in February last year to ally himself with a new group of hardened far-right activists in Yorkshire with hopes to form a “new EDL”, according to Hope Not Hate.

United Hull has also taken part in livestreams with Sharon Binks, an organiser for a group called Justice for Women and Children. It also has links to the far-right, with Binks’ praise for far-right figurehead Stephen Yaxley-Lennon previously the subject of a BBC Newsnight investigation.

Yaxley-Lennon, known as ‘Tommy Robinson’, is one of the most prominent far-right campaigners in Britain, even being appointed as a ‘grooming gangs’ advisor in 2018 to the then UKIP Leader Gerald Batten.
Yaxley-Lennon and other UKIP leaders were the original founders of another far-right group, Hearts of Oak. With the help of UKIP’s Lord Malcom Pearson, it recently funded a landmark civil case by a Rochdale abuse survivor against her abuser, as a result of which she was awarded £425,000 in damages.

In 2019, a Rochdale-based abuse support group, Shatter Boys, said it was approached by Lord Pearson and other UKIP figures with promises to introduce them to millionaire donors and to fund an open-top bus that could raise the alarm about ‘grooming gangs’ in the area. At the time, the charity’s founder, who refused the request, said “I think their fight is about Islam”.
The interconnectedness of the network of these far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation in recent years to further their own ends.

Sexual Abuse and the Far-Right

Holly Archer, one of the most prominent survivors of the Telford sex ring, who has written a biography of her experiences I Never Gave My Consent, last year revealed how she returned to Telford to see the far-right Britain First group campaigning about child sexual abuse.
She said the group’s then Acting Leader, Jayda Fransen, “handed me a leaflet with a picture of my book on it, and quotes that had been twisted and misconstrued to make me say the most racist things… They’d made it about immigration. About all these migrants ‘coming over here to rape our girls’. I felt a rage inside me that I didn’t know what to do with”.

Another prominent survivor of child sexual exploitation, Caitlin Spencer, has said she was pressured to say that Muslims were to blame for widespread child abuse. When she later challenged far-right narratives, she said she received virulent personal insults and was even lectured about her experiences of abuse online.

The experts Byline Times spoke to raised the same concerns about the furthering of a far-right anti-Islam agenda.
For Waqas Tufail, a Reader in Criminology at Leeds Beckett University and an expert on child sexual exploitation, the problem is clear: “The far-right don’t care about these survivors, they want to exploit them for political ends.”

This is given further weight by the track record on child sexual exploitation of individuals in the far-right movement.
Stephen Yaxley-Lennon was sentenced to six months in prison after he filmed outside, and shared restricted details of, a CSE case being heard at Leeds Crown Court in 2018, risking undermining the entire legal process.

He defended close friend and ally Richard Price when Price was convicted of making four indecent images of children in 2010, claiming that he had been “stitched up” and calling for his release.
A previous investigation by Hope Not Hate uncovered at least 20 cases of members and supporters of the English Defence League (EDL) being convicted of child sexual exploitation offences. This included Robert Ewing, who murdered schoolgirl Paige Chivers in 2007 after developing an “inappropriate sexual interest” in her.

The failure to deal with sexual abusers in its own midst, however, has not hampered the far-right’s focus on the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ narrative.

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https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/01/spec ... and-press/:

Special Investigation: ‘Muslim Grooming Gangs’ – An Old Conspiracy Mainstreamed by Today’s Politicians and Press

Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that ‘group-based offenders are most commonly white’

The narrative of ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ entered the mainstream in 2011, when The Times published an exposé on a “conspiracy of silence on UK sex gangs”. According to experts, the story contained the two key planks that became central to the narrative: that Pakistani-heritage men were preying on white British girls, and that the authorities failed to intervene for fear of being branded racist.
In the years since, thousands of articles on ‘grooming gangs’ have been published by The Times and other newspapers – helped by endorsements from mainstream politicians.

The issue was also given supposed scientific support through a ‘study’ by the controversial Quilliam Foundation. The now defunct group, once headed by conspiracy theorist Maajid Nawaz, claimed that it had found that “84% of grooming gang offenders are Asian”, in a piece of work dismissed as “shoddy pseudoscience” by academics for its failure to use complete data in its analysis.
In the narrative as told by groups such as Quilliam, the perpetrators of child sexual exploitation from Muslim backgrounds commit these crimes because of problematic beliefs in their culture and faith (while those from a white British background are individual deviants).

By extension, police failures in the cases of abusers from Muslim backgrounds are due to political correctness (while failures to deal with historic sex abuse by the likes of Jimmy Savile, for instance, are of a different order).

In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that “group-based offenders are most commonly white” and that there was no credible evidence that one ethnic group is overrepresented in the perpetrators of child sexual exploitation.
Despite these findings, politicians have continued to discuss ‘Muslim grooming gangs’. One prominent example of this has been former Home Secretary Suella Braverman, who has repeatedly and baselessly claimed that south Asian Muslims account for a significant number of paedophile rings operating in the UK.

In September last year, the press regulator IPSO told the Mail on Sunday to amend an op-ed in which she claimed that “almost all” child grooming gangs are British-Pakistani.
When Byline Times asked the Home Office about the impact of Braverman’s comments, a spokesperson said that “child sex abusers can come from any walk of life” and insisted that her claims only related to the specific cases in Rotherham, Telford, and Rochdale.
But Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service’s former lead on child sexual abuse, believes that Braverman’s intervention on the issue had a significant impact.

“The far-right have got traction because of Braverman and others like her,” he told Byline Times. “When you have ministers, and the former Home Secretary, talking about this issue as being a ‘dividing line’ in our communities, that provides encouragement to those who are already exploiting it to continue.”

Dr Ella Cockbain, a University College London professor specialising in research on trafficking and child sexual abuse, agrees. She said there is “growing evidence” of the far-right actively seeking out survivors of child sexual exploitation, and their families, to exploit their trauma for its own gains.

“The deliberate spread of racialised stereotypes around child sexual abuse has been a gift to the far-right helping to mainstream and normalise what used to be fringe positions,” she told Byline Times.

When far-right terrorist Brenton Tarrant killed 51 people in two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, in 2019 the words “for Rotherham” were painted on his gun.
Eighty-one-year-old grandfather Mushin Ahmed was murdered as he walked to prayers at a mosque in a racially-motivated attack in Rotherham seemingly in response to the child sexual exploitation scandal in the town in 2015.

Darren Osborne, who killed one person and injured nine others when he drove his van into a group outside London’s Finsbury Park Mosque, described a film about the Rochdale scandal as a “trigger”. He vowed to “kill all the Muslims” before committing his attack.

An Old Trope

Inaccurate stories about people from certain ethnic groups being more likely to rape white girls are the manifestation of a long-running trope masquerading as a ‘call to arms’ used by the far-right.
The high-profile scandals of on-street grooming in recent years, and the subsequent investigations into why such abuse went uncovered by authorities for so long – including claims of concerns about ‘political correctness’ – have seen it channelled into its modern form through concrete examples of perpetrators of colour and injustice.

“The far-right have long sought to capitalise on the issue of on-street grooming by gangs,” Hope Not Hate’s Nick Lowles told Byline Times.
“In 2004, the British National Party (BNP) gained several seats on Bradford Council by exploiting local anger that accompanied revelations that as many as 65 girls had been abused in Keighley.

“The following year, BNP Leader Nick Griffin made the issue the focus of his campaign to win the parliamentary seat of Keighley. Fortunately, he failed miserably, largely because Hope Not Hate was able to enlist the support of the woman leading the campaign to tighten up the law to protect survivors.
“Through a Hope not Hate tabloid, which was distributed to all 35,000 homes in the constituency, she explained how Griffin and the BNP were exploiting her daughter’s story for its racist aims, whilst offering no practical solutions to the issue. Her intervention made all the difference and Griffin came a distant third in the election with just 9% of the vote.

“Over the next 15 years, we have seen the English Defence League, Britain First, and other far-right groups try to exploit the issue with repeated demonstrations and protests in towns like Rotherham, Rochdale, and Telford. They use the issue to whip up racism, disregarding the needs and wishes of the young women who have been abused.

“They have, however, forced police and councils to spend millions in ensuring the protests pass off peacefully, and in doing so diverting money and resources from the services that would actually help the survivors of abuse.”

Each crime of child sexual exploitation is horrific, and it is a fact that there are paedophiles from Muslim backgrounds perpetrating abuse. But to focus on the issue solely as a ‘Muslim’ issue, leaves a significant swathe of cases – at the hands of non-Muslim abusers – insufficiently recognised as symptoms of a much wider national crisis.

While this investigation has uncovered how a new, more organised, far-right is, once again, leaving survivors of child sexual exploitation at risk, the fact is that a growing number of survivors are choosing to engage with such groups.

To understand why, experts believe that, as a society, we must confront our continued unwillingness to acknowledge the complexity and scale of child sexual abuse in Britain – and the lack of support services in place to help those who have been through the most traumatic experiences to come to terms with their pasts.

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https://bylinetimes.com/2024/06/01/spec ... e-at-risk/:

Special Investigation: Society’s Reluctance to Acknowledge the Scale of Child Sexual Abuse and a Lack of Political Support for Its Survivors is Keeping the Vulnerable At Risk

Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of ‘support’ for survivors

The lack of support for survivors of child sexual exploitation is a major reason why vulnerable women are susceptible to far-right groups offering support, experts told Byline Times.
Cuts to council budgets have impacted child social care services provided by local authorities – even as demand has increased. Byline Times has previously reported on the crisis in children’s homes that has seen private equity firms, and even the Qatari Government, make hundreds of millions of pounds from putting vulnerable children in unsafe accommodation. In at least one case, staff failed to stop at-risk children from being sexually abused by men in the area.

Mental health support is another area under huge pressure.
The risk of CSE survivors attempting suicide can be as much as six times greater than in the general population, but no ring-fenced, long-term, specialist support is provided by government or the NHS. To access even general mental health support, CSE survivors face a waiting list with nearly two million others.
Most survivors, or children at risk of abuse, are forced to rely on a patchwork of charities – some government-funded, some not – to help deal with their trauma. But these charities are themselves struggling.

A number of those Byline Times spoke to for this investigation said charities are struggling to meet the record levels of need from a growing number of survivors while operating on shoestring budgets. Although the Government recently announced that it is doubling its funding for child abuse charities to £2.4 million, this amounts to just £22 for each of the 107,000 child sexual abuse cases logged by the police in 2022.
These problems help explain why the far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by this lack of services with its own range of support for survivors.

But it is often not just about financial support. According to several of the experts Byline Times spoke to, survivors of child sexual exploitation, and their experiences, have too often been disregarded by the Government, media, and police.
In many of the high-profile cases of on-street grooming – such as Rochdale and Rotherham, but also less well-known examples across the country – there have been systemic issues with how authorities have reacted to reports of abuse.

One report into the mass grooming of underage girls in Rochdale found that police had repeatedly failed to record evidence and testimonies of those who came forward begging for help. Authorities across the region then repeatedly failed to investigate for years after victims first came forward. Dozens of children had been sexually exploited at the hands of a gang of perpetrators operating in the area.

Despite the press attention the issue has received in the years since, these systemic failings continue. One academic Byline Times spoke to said they had recently attended a meeting where police dismissed the testimonies of a CSE survivor as they were deemed to not be acting as upset as they should have been if they were actually a victim (despite lack of emotion being a common response to shock).

“It is important to understand and address the reasons why some survivors and their loved ones might be susceptible to approaches from the far-right, which means thinking carefully about what they offer,” University College London’s Dr Ella Cockbain said.
Perhaps at the core of the problem is the fact that society still struggles to get to grips with the scale of child sexual abuse being perpetrated. One in 10 children – and one in six girls – are estimated to experience sexual abuse before the age of 16. Even that figure, authorities believe, is likely to be an underestimate.

Nazir Afzal, the Crown Prosecution Service’s former lead on child sexual abuse, said: “It’s far too common. I always say that it’s the pandemic that will outlive the pandemic we’ve just been through. By focusing on the exploitation of it, we mustn’t minimise the fact that it occurs and its impact.”
Diverting Focus From Survivors To Perpetrators
For some experts, this cuts to the core of why the narrative of ‘Muslim grooming gang’ persists, even as the evidence calling into question its credibility has become clear.

“We can’t cope as individuals by accepting that, actually, this can happen to my child, my niece or nephew, or could be perpetrated by someone we know,” Helen Beckett, Professor of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Central Lancashire, told Byline Times.
“It’s much easier to think of it as a problem ‘out there’ that affects ‘other people’. So the ‘grooming gangs’ idea fits into this othering narrative – that it’s other people over there doing this who are not like us.”
The “societal stigma and silencing” around child sexual abuse, she said, leaves us unable to contemplate, let alone discuss, its existence and scale, unless we are able to project it elsewhere, as something alien or imported.
This can have serious repercussions for society as a whole. But, more than anything, the biggest victims of that failure are sexual abuse survivors themselves.

The experts Byline Times spoke to warned that, by solely focusing on Asian grooming gangs, thereby ignoring the scale of abuse elsewhere in society, a “hierarchy of abuse” is created. When everyone, from the media to the police, begin to place greater focus on ‘cracking down on Muslim grooming gangs’, it fails other survivors – “whose abuse is overlooked because it doesn’t fit that narrative”.

Afzal said that he has been contacted by lawyers who have struggled to get the police to open criminal cases into perpetrators of child sexual exploitation who are not from Muslim or south Asian backgrounds. He said he has also been told of social services training programmes in which at-risk children are solely told to avoid getting into cars with south Asian men.

“You’re almost giving them a false sense of reassurance that, if they don’t hang around with certain people they won’t be abused, even when eight out of 10 sex abusers in prison are British white men,” Afzal told Byline Times.
Following Suella Braverman’s comments last year about the threat of Muslim groomers, a coalition of charities and experts in child protection – including the NSPCC and Victim Support – wrote an open letter, stating that narratives based on “misinformation, racism and division” were putting children at risk by drawing attention away from other sources of sexual abuse.

Better funding and serious reforms to the policing of sexual abuse, statutory requirements to offer prolonged psychological support to survivors, and a huge uptick in government funding for charities and support services were all floated as potential solutions to the crisis.
But doing any of that would also require coming to terms with how, as a society, we have enabled this – through our refusal to acknowledge the scale of child sexual abuse and address it with the funding and support people need.

One of the biggest tragedies of the ‘Muslim grooming gangs’ narrative, according to survivors Byline Times spoke to, is that it redirects the focus from survivors onto the race or religion of the perpetrator – and reinforces the very stereotypes that survivors face as a barrier to being heard in the first place.
“I was abused by all men and the police didn’t give a f**k about any of them,” Lara (not her real name) said. “Because it’s not about how the police saw those men – it’s about how the police saw me. That’s what it was about: how the police see young women from working-class backgrounds.”

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This is worth knowing about Tommy Robinson

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