September 1, 2014
ROTHERHAM, England — It started on the bumper cars (click here) in the children’s arcade of the local shopping mall. Lucy was 12, and a group of teenage boys, handsome and flirtatious, treated her and her friends to free rides and ice cream after school.
Over time, older men were introduced to the girls, while the boys faded away. Soon they were getting rides in real cars, and were offered vodka and marijuana. One man in particular, a Pakistani twice her age and the leader of the group, flattered her and bought her drinks and even a mobile phone. Lucy liked him.
The rapes started gradually, once a week, then every day: by the war memorial in Clifton Park, in an alley near the bus station, in countless taxis and, once, in an apartment where she was locked naked in a room and had to service half a dozen men lined up outside....
This is just unthinkable. It reminds me of the very poor UN ranking of the UK in it's care of the children. Kids don't matter in the UK do they? There needs to be a though investigation and charges filed, not just for the perpetrators but for the officials that allowed this to exist for 16 years. Were they on the take?
...Lucy’s account of her experience is emblematic of what investigators say happened during a 16-year reign of terror and impunity in this poor northern English town of 257,000, where at least 1,400 children, some as young as 11, were groomed for sexual exploitation while the authorities looked the other way. One girl told investigators that gang rape was part of growing up in her neighborhood....
If this is the level of vigilance the British government practices within the UK there is plenty of reason to create stronger laws about interior security of the country. Pedophile heaven? Is that the specialty of the UK? Too bad it was illegitimate income the UK could have collected tax revenue for sixteen years.
ROTHERHAM, England — It started on the bumper cars (click here) in the children’s arcade of the local shopping mall. Lucy was 12, and a group of teenage boys, handsome and flirtatious, treated her and her friends to free rides and ice cream after school.
Over time, older men were introduced to the girls, while the boys faded away. Soon they were getting rides in real cars, and were offered vodka and marijuana. One man in particular, a Pakistani twice her age and the leader of the group, flattered her and bought her drinks and even a mobile phone. Lucy liked him.
The rapes started gradually, once a week, then every day: by the war memorial in Clifton Park, in an alley near the bus station, in countless taxis and, once, in an apartment where she was locked naked in a room and had to service half a dozen men lined up outside....
This is just unthinkable. It reminds me of the very poor UN ranking of the UK in it's care of the children. Kids don't matter in the UK do they? There needs to be a though investigation and charges filed, not just for the perpetrators but for the officials that allowed this to exist for 16 years. Were they on the take?
...Lucy’s account of her experience is emblematic of what investigators say happened during a 16-year reign of terror and impunity in this poor northern English town of 257,000, where at least 1,400 children, some as young as 11, were groomed for sexual exploitation while the authorities looked the other way. One girl told investigators that gang rape was part of growing up in her neighborhood....
If this is the level of vigilance the British government practices within the UK there is plenty of reason to create stronger laws about interior security of the country. Pedophile heaven? Is that the specialty of the UK? Too bad it was illegitimate income the UK could have collected tax revenue for sixteen years.
