From the Telegraph and the Birmingham Mail
Almost 500 children in Birmingham and the West Midlands have been identified as victims of sexual exploitation in just six months, a bombshell new report has revealed.
And for the first time police and council officials have publicly admitted a ‘disproportionate number’ of Asian Pakistani men are involved in on-street grooming, as revealed by the Mail last year.
The report said: “Suspects are from a wide range of backgrounds, but there are disproportionate numbers from an Asian Pakistani background suspected of abuse and exploitation on the streets; and primarily white male suspects in relation to online offending.”
Potential mistakes in tackling CSE have been previously highlighted by the Mail, including an investigation showing how Birmingham City Council had ‘buried’ a report by a respected academic 23 years ago.
Researcher Dr Jill Jesson was asked by the authority to look at the issue of child prostitution involving girls in care back in 1990. The following year, after six months research, she produced a critical two-part report which showed child protection failings by social workers and other agencies.
Her report also highlighted claims that some Asian private hire drivers were linked to the sexual exploitation of young white girls in care, including some who had been cautioned for prostitution offences. Yet when Dr Jesson presented her draft findings to a steering group, she was ordered to remove all reference linking ethnicity and the private hire trade. Incredibly, her full amended final report was never published.
A meeting planned to discuss it was cancelled – and all copies were to be destroyed. Dr Jesson told the Mail: “I was employed to do the work because I think they thought I would be objective,” she said. “I was told to reveal what I saw. I did – and some people didn’t like it.”
“I thought at the time I did the work that there was an issue with race. Most of the girls were white. I was asked to take this link out, to erase it.”
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A few years ago I was visiting a pub in Birmingham with my friend and his wife. After closing time we walked past a girl who asked us if she could pay us to make a call on one of our mobile phones. She told us she was being harassed by some Muslim guys and was living in care. My friends wife helped her get back to her care home and bought her some pizza. This is about 6 or 7 years ago. She was mixed race (black / white)
This has been going on for years. And the tip of the iceberg.