@292
not a particularly apt analogy.
the grooming gangs have been around for DECADES - - UK law enforcement turns a blind eye. Or even accuses the victims not the perps. Anyone who calls them "Pakistani" rape gangs is accused of racism. When they ARE convicted, they receive a slap on the wrist - probably why Tommy Robinson ended up in jail in May 2018 just for standing outside the court reporting on the sentencing of one gang (https://www.5rb.com/contempt/tommy-robinson-jailed-for-nine-months-for-contempt/).
The UK’s grooming gangs and the lessons never learned
Feb. 2024
It is high time for Britain’s criminal justice system to stop failing vulnerable girls victimised by predatory men.
When it comes to official responses to criminal justice failures, the phrase “lessons will be learned” has become a wretched cliche. Once uttered by a cornered police chief or politician, it is hard to respond to it with anything other than raised eyebrows and a sardonic scowl because we have come to know it means nothing at all.
I clearly remember it being repeated over and over again after the extent of child sexual exploitation in the northern town of Rotherham was exposed in the United Kingdom a decade ago.
In August 2014, a groundbreaking report by former senior social worker Alexis Jay revealed that an estimated 1,400 children had been sexually abused in the town from 1997 to 2013, predominantly by Pakistani-British men. It revealed that council staff and others knew of the abuse but turned a blind eye to what was happening and refused to identify the perpetrators in part for fear of being branded racist.
In response to the report’s damning revelations, so many in positions of power looked straight into the cameras and said “lessons will be learned.”
Tragically, however, what happened in Rotherham was not an anomaly….
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/23/the-uks-grooming-gangs-and-the-lessons-never-learned
https://www.aljazeera.com/opinions/2024/2/23/the-uks-grooming-gangs-and-the-lessons-never-learned