Tag: The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse

The UK grooming-gang scandal has refused to go away. Between the mid-1990s and the late-2000s, gangs of predominantly British Pakistani Muslim men raped and prostituted thousands of predominantly young, white, working-class girls in towns and cities across England. But despite the repeated efforts of a brave few to alert the relevant authorities, too many in… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 11

Forty-two people, including three women, have been charged with historic child sex offences over a 20-year period. They are alleged to have been part of a widespread grooming gang that targeted children between 1995 and 2015. They are accused of prostitution, rape, indecent assault and false imprisonment, with the alleged offences involving six female victims… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 10

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse is the 16th in three and a half years! With each one, the colossal scale and destructive force of child sexual abuse within British society is revealed. There is barely a corner of this country’s institutional, cultural or spiritual life untarnished by the activities of abusers. And yet,… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 9

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse found that in some communities “the relationship between ideas of sexual ‘purity’ and social and familial standing are likely to make abuse markedly harder to report”. “The imperative not to speak is bound up with notions of honour, with consequences for an individual’s ability to marry, for their… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 8

There are “shocking failings” and “blatant hypocrisy” in the way major UK religious groups handle child sex abuse allegations, an inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) said some religious organisations in England and Wales were “morally failing” children. It examined evidence from 38 groups, including those from Christianity, Orthodox Judaism… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 7

Lambeth Council was mired in corruption and financial mismanagement during the decades of abuse, with “politicised behaviour and turmoil” dominating its culture, according to The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report. It partly blames the Labour council’s battle against the Conservative government in the 1980s, saying it sought to “take on the government” to… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 6

The Metropolitan Police has apologised “for when we let children in the care of Lambeth down”. The inquiry into the council, held in the summer of 2020, examined five homes – Angell Road, South Vale Assessment Centre, the Shirley Oaks complex, Ivy House and Monkton Street. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse report said:… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 5

Staff and councillors presided over a “culture of cover-up” that led to more than 700 children in south London care homes suffering cruelty and sexual abuse, an inquiry has found. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse strongly criticised Lambeth Council for allowing abuse in five homes from the 1960s to the 1990s. It said… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 4

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse recommendations include improving the advice and guidance given to police and local authorities, a tighter definition of the problem, and the collection of ethnicity data. There was a “flawed assumption” that this form of child sexual abuse was on the wane, the inquiry’s chair Prof Alexis Jay said.… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 3

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse examined abuse in St Helens, Tower Hamlets in London, Swansea, Durham, Bristol and Warwickshire. It found signs of abuse in the six areas studied but said there were “extensive failures” in how authorities tackled child exploitation, with police often unable to provide evidence on the extent of the… Continue reading The Muslim Grooming Gangs Part 2