This article is the final in a three-part series on Britain’s Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report. Part One explained the report and why American families should care. Part Two examined the connection between Islamic theology and rape gang crimes. Part Three covers Britain’s institutional failure to protect children for fear of appearing racist.
Caution: This article deals with sexual assault, with links to some graphic articles and posts.
In parts one and two of this series, the Daily Citizen examined the Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report out of Britain, which concludes organized gangs of primarily Pakistani Muslim men sexually abused at least 250,000 British girls in 149 local authority districts over the last three decades.
The scale and savagery of the abuse is staggering, but the true tragedy is British leaders’ apparent indifference. The Report presents evidence suggesting every single British institution knew of the organized rape of British children and chose to ignore it.
“Every one of our institutions failed [these girls] catastrophically,” the Report reads, concluding:
The institutional failures which led to the decades-long, organized abuse of British girls are pervasive and cascading. They begin with failures to investigate crimes.
Witness statements gathered and analyzed by the Report indicate law enforcement “across England and Scotland” repeatedly failed to investigate and act on reports of the “organized grooming and rape of children.”
Dr. Ella Hill, who became a victim of the Rotherham “grooming gang” at just 15 years old, reported her abuse to the police five times. Each time, officers refused to accept medical documentation of her injuries and told her nothing could be done.
Investigative failures weren’t limited to the police. Multiple British governments and politicians from across the political spectrum ignored rape gang crimes to avoid losing Muslim voters, the Report alleges.
“Politicians received direct briefings, sat in multi-agency meetings, read internal intelligence and still denied knowledge, blocked inquiries and silenced critics in order to cleave to Muslim voting blocs,” it claims.
Britain’s Crime and Disorder Act of 1998 requires judges to impose harsher sentences on perpetrators of racially- and religiously-aggravated crimes. But, according to the Report, no judge has ever increased a convicted rape gang offender’s sentence for racial and religious motivations.
Instead, some judges have lowered the sentences of perpetrators who claim sexually abusing women is part of their culture.
The Report cites an offender from Bristol, for instance, who argued “forcing a girl to have sex with his friends was simply ‘Somali culture and tradition.’”
Another from Rotherham “claimed Western girls’ clothing invited and provoked abuse.”
“The result [of British courts entertaining these arguments] is that men who viewed white British girls as sub-human property received [sentencing] discounts unavailable to any other category of offender,” the investigation concludes.
The Report found several public institutions tasked with caring for children not only failed to report unmistakable signs of abuse but routinely returned girls to their abusers.
Britain’s National Health Services treated children with physical and mental wounds from sexual trauma, including STIs, pregnancies and traumatic miscarriages, injuries from suicide attempts and injuries consistent with physical abuse.
But NHS did not connect these injuries or behaviors to organized grooming and abuse, reflecting what the Report calls a “chronic lack of professional curiosity.” Instead, employees simply treated the girls, documented their injuries and sent them back to their abusers.
Similarly, teachers across Britain allegedly observed:
- Older men picking girls up from school.
- Girls coming to school with gifts, cigarettes and drugs.
- Girls missing school or attending with physical injuries.
Some teachers even heard students describe sexual encounters with their abusers. Still, the Report found, none managed to “link obvious grooming indicators to organized crime.”
Instead, teachers generally treated symptoms of abuse as behavioral problems. Victims were routinely suspended or expelled, often exposing them to further harm.
Most concerningly, adult men were generally allowed to continue retrieving girls from school.
Social service workers allegedly returned girls to children’s homes and foster care placements where grooming behaviors had been reported.
The Report also found evidence that members of Britain’s institutions participated in rape gang abuse.
Social service workers didn’t just return girls to unsafe environments. Children’s homes were turned into “trafficking hubs” where “staff failed to stop older men from collecting girls at night,” the inquiry reported.
One survivor, Anna, began experiencing abuse in her children’s home at just 13 years old. Her abuser forced her into a sharia law marriage when she turned 15. Anna’s social worker attended her “wedding ceremony.”
When Anna became pregnant, the same social worker arranged for her new husband’s parents to foster Anna. While her foster family received government money to care for her, Anna became the family’s domestic servant. She suffered sexual abuse by dozens of men under their roof.
Of the police, the Report found:
In one case, a Muslim officer convinced survivor Sarah not to report her abuse, telling her she didn’t have enough evidence. According to the inquiry, “[Sarah] later learned that this officer was imprisoned for child sex offenses.”
Some officers with known ties to rape gangs were reportedly allowed to retire from the force with their pensions.
Protecting innocent children from sexual violence is one of the most unifying values in the West. What could cause a nation like Britain to so uniformly abandon this fundamental concern?
Fear of being called racist.
Racism convictions carry stiff legal penalties in Britain. A broad network of anti-discrimination and anti-hate crime legislation makes investigating the cultural and demographic patterns behind a crime legally risky.
Britain’s anti-racism laws originated in the ideological upheaval of the 1960s, the Report explains, when minority groups became synonymous with “special victim groups.”
In subsequent decades, a value shift occurred in which the Report assesses:
But British people didn’t just fear existing laws against “racism.” The government threatened to increase legal sanctions as the public became more aware of connections between Islam and rape gangs. It established an All-Party Parliamentary Group to legally define “Islamophobia,” which would have increased investigators’ and journalists’ risk of being sued while local jurisdictions tried to investigate “grooming gangs.”
As the think tank Policy Exchange argued in a piece entitled “How Not To Tackle Grooming Gangs,” accusations of “Islamophobia” had already been used to “suppress exposure of the [‘grooming gang’] scandal and pursuit of justice for the victims.”
It recommended the government wait to define “Islamophobia” until investigations into rape gangs had run their course.
Shadow Equalities Minister Claire Coutinho also objected to defining “Islamophobia,” warning such definitions could lead to “repeating past mistakes where fear of racist or ‘Islamophobic’ labels contributed to delayed or inadequate responses.”
Fear of being called racist — perhaps more than any other factor — led to what amounted to the state-sponsored abandonment of children to rape-gangs.
“The perpetrators operated with impunity because the state enabled them,” the Report writes.
“This was not ignorance of the crimes, but calculated, repeated, nationwide abandonment of children.”
Britain’s rape gangs remain a cautionary tale for American families.
Britain abandoned its girls to sex-based violence, the Independent Rape Gang Inquiry Report alleges, because Britain first abandoned its values.
When a society prioritizes cultural sensitivity more than physical safety and the equal application of law, tragedies occur.
The Report concludes:
As America celebrates its 251 year, all Americans should reflect: What values make this country great — and what must we do to protect them?
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