A leaked report from a police agency in Britain has confirmed what everyone knew: Cops did nothing to stop Pakistani Muslims from “grooming” and raping more than 1,000 girls in Rotherham because they feared “racial tensions.”
News about the “Asian” rape gangs began surfacing almost a decade ago, but the full truth emerged in 2014 when an official report said the Asian men operated with impunity for 15 years.
Now, it appears, the reckoning has come. An investigatory panel has upheld a half-dozen complaints against cops who ignored the rapes, and a member of Parliament from Rotherham wants to name names.
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The Independent Office for Police Corruption, the Daily Mail reported, has “upheld a complaint that a chief inspector admitted to the father of a victim that abuse was ignored due to fears of increasing ‘racial tensions.’”
Amazingly, “he is said to have claimed ‘with it being Asians, we can’t afford for this to be coming out’ or the town ‘would erupt.’”
Undoubtedly it would have, and Britons might well have asked whether unfettered immigration from the Third World is a prudent idea.
That said, Rotherham has erupted anyway thanks to the news, which first appeared in London’s Times newspaper.
Sarah Champion, the Rotherham MP, told the Mail that the cops responsible must be named, and it’s “difficult to believe” they can’t be identified.
Champion spoke because the report “failed to identify a key investigator in the Rotherham scandal.” The rapists operated from 1997 until 2013.
“What we as a town need to see, and definitely for the survivors to get closure, they need to see cases of misconduct,” she told the newspaper. “They need to see people held to account.”
The panel will publish a full report, but the leak divulged that “police were aware of suspects but did not take sufficient action to protect her.”
Shockingly, not one of the 16 cops who talked to the victim remembered speaking with her.
Rotherham survivor Sammy Woodhouse said she was not surprised by the report’s findings and that no officers were named.
She said: “We’ve started to now see perpetrators that have committed the rapes and the abuse being held to the account, but yet whenever when it comes to professionals I feel that we constantly hit a brick wall and I don’t think anybody will be ever held to account.”
The IOPC’s Operation Linden was launched in 2014 with 91 investigations into allegations senior officers failed in their duty to protect children.
The Metro reported that “some of leak’s contents indicate sexist attitudes may have influenced the police’s alleged inertia as well as the fear of being seen as racist.”
As well, the newspaper reported:
The girl’s father told the Times a fellow high-ranking officer had to confront the policeman after he spoke about his daughter “as though she [had been] an adult doing it of her own free will.”
The girl had been missing for weeks, but the officer told her father “that in his day they used to call them ‘P*** shaggers’ and that others in the force saw her as a “naughty kid, a teenager playing up,” he continued.
Prosecutors convicted seven Pakistanis in the scandal last year.
One poor girl involved in the case, the BBC reported, was “sexually abused by ‘at least 100 Asian men’ before the age of 16.”
At the time, the BBC reported that the agency investigating the Rotherham scandal had “identified 151 suspects and is running 22 ongoing investigations. More than 150 officers work on the operation and there are plans to recruit another 100.”
A city of about 265,000, Rotherham lies about 82 miles east of the port city of Liverpool.
“Far-Right” Worries
Prosecutor Nazir Afzal, who prosecuted a rape gang in Rochdale, which lies about halfway between Liverpool and Rotherham, is worried about something else.
“The fact is that by not dealing with this at the time because of some misguided concern about upsetting some communities, they have added fuel to the fire of far-Right groups,” he told the Mail.
Police apologized for ignoring that rape and grooming scandal in 2015.
An Afghan and eight Pakistanis went to jail, the BBC reported.
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R. Cort Kirkwood is a long-time contributor to The New American and a former newspaper editor.
