VAWG
Serious Abuse of Women and Girls.
There was a drama on BBC 2 on Monday 5 November 2018 on Sex Trafficking called ‘Doing Money’. It was based on a true story and tells the horrific real-life story of Ana (not her real name), a young Romanian woman who was snatched off a London street in broad daylight, trafficked to Ireland and forced to be a sex slave in pop-up brothels around the country for ten months. It was very hard watching and showed the cruel way that these girls were treated, drugs, drink, beatings, gang rapes, torture. It succeeds in showing why the victims of sexual slavery find it so difficult to escape their captors: pimps threaten to kill the women’s families if they run, lock them up at night and starve them unless they “do money” (sell their bodies), and use constant psychological manipulation to make them feel dependent on the gang. These animals were eventually arrested and sentenced to 3 years in prison. 3 years? I would have sent them down for life.
The way some women and girls are treated by some excuses of men is appalling and the sentences handed down by the courts are derisory.
What has led to gangs of British Pakistani Muslim men​ targeting young white girls with drink and drugs before raping and sexually abusing them?
Girls from the Asian community were seen as “protected” because chastity was linked to “family honour”, young white women were deemed “easy targets” and “open to sexual relationships with a little persuasion”.
There are elements from within the British Pakistani community that still subscribe to outdated and sexist views of women embedded within their jaded interpretations of Islam. These backward views are passed down from generation to generation until the lines between faith and culture dissolve, making it increasingly difficult to criticise one without being seen as a critic of the other.”
The Police, Social Services, local authorities and politicians have failed these girls because of Political Correctness and fear of being seen as Racist. It is not racist to enforce the law and protect these vulnerable girls from being groomed, sexually abused drugged and raped. It is criminal failure and those that did not act when approached by these girls should face prosecution themselves. It seems certain cultures are out of bounds when it comes to criticism is not just misguided and misinformed, but often allows the most vulnerable individuals from society to continue to be victimised and abused.”
OK, it would be wrong to believe that it is only the British Pakistani’s doing this but the greater majority of these gangs and are the leaders and the rest Whites and blacks.
There have been successful prosecutions (about ten years too late) in Rotherham, Rochester, Huddersfield, Bristol, Oxford, etc. involving well over a thousand girls. My concern is that it is going on undetected in London. The infrastructure is there. Kebab shops, minicab firms, a large British Pakistani community; it would be naïve to believe that it is not happening.
Many of these girls are in care and the care home has parental responsibility and must be aware of any change in behaviour, any ‘gifts’. Any suspicions should be reported to the police. The same would apply to parents and schools. It is better to be safe than sorry.
The Police and Social Services must be proactive in ensuring that if it is happening or the slightest hint that it may be then they must act robustly. The courts must also hand down the maximum sentences allowed. These apologies for men should lose their British citizenship and be thrown out of our Country.
It has been reported that these sexual abuse of girls has been white British, however, Prof. Bedi sent me the following:
Daily Mail 26 November 2018 Page 29.
Sexual exploitation of British Sikh girls by grooming gangs has been 'recklessly ignored' by police due to 'political correctness', claims report
The report by the Sikh Mediation and Rehabilitation Team charity found that police ‘recklessly ignored’ complaints, often for reasons of ‘political correctness’.
Gangs of predominantly Pakistani men have been grooming British Sikh girls for decades, according to claims in a bombshell report.
The study alleges that young Sikh women have been ‘targeted’ by Muslim men who subjected them to sexual abuse.
In many cases, according to the report, the men would groom a girl before passing her round to other members of their family.
The girls would be snared by ‘fashionably dressed adult Pakistani men travelling in flamboyant vehicles to predominantly Sikh dominated areas and schools’, it claimed.
The report said that while the revelation of grooming gangs targeting white girls in Rochdale shocked the nation in 2012, similar instances had long been taking place under the radar in Britain’s Sikh communities. Sikh community leaders say the problem started in the 1960s. The charity said the report was not a ‘witch-hunt against any individual, community, culture or faith’, but said nothing would change unless the facts were known.
Last night Labour MP Sarah Champion demanded an investigation. She said: ‘I was shocked when I first heard about the organised abuse of Sikh girls by mostly Pakistani men. ‘When I started speaking to Sikh women, I could not believe how widespread the grooming and abuse was, and that this has been going on for decades. We need to speak of the abuse of Sikh girls to take it out of the shadows and make sure the authorities take it seriously. ‘
The Rotherham MP added: ‘There needs to be a full investigation into the systematic abuse of Sikh girls.’
The Daily Mail has seen a copy of the report, entitled The Religiously Aggravated Sexual Exploitation of Young Sikh Women Across the UK.
Described as an exploratory study, it looks at reported cases of abuse against Sikh girls, of Indian background, dating back to the 1970s.
The report said: ‘The research has found verification demonstrating a history of predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs targeting young Sikh females for over 50 years. ‘The over representation of such perpetrators in selecting non-Muslim victims would appear to be indicative of a wider acceptability in certain sections of the community towards the targeting of young females from outside of the Pakistani community and/or Muslim faith.
The CPS developed a Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) strategy, not only as a result of the importance the Service places on improving prosecutions of these crimes and supporting victims, but also in recognition of the United Nations, Council of Europe and End Violence Against Women Campaign initiatives and as part of the cross-government VAWG strategy (the cross-government VAWG narrative and action plans are available from GOV.UK. Our commitment to this work is reflected in the fact that CPS includes Violence Against Women and Girls in its key priorities. This section provides links to policy and guidance reports on Violence against Women and prosecution performance information. It includes VAWG work in relation to:
- domestic abuse;
- forced marriage;
- honour-based violence;
- female genital mutilation;
- rape and sexual offences;
- prostitution;
- human trafficking;
- child abuse; and
- pornography
In recognising these forms of violence against women and girls, the CPS does not neglect abuse directed towards men or perpetrated by women. Male victims will receive the same access to protection and legal redress and the gender of the perpetrator does not make any difference to the CPS approach to bringing offenders to justice.
Compiled by:
Michelle Dibble
