Rotherham Victim Says Abusers ‘Untouchable’

A Sky News investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham learns that hundreds of new cases continue to emerge. A survivor of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham claims she still sees her abusers “driving young girls in their car”, as a Sky News investigation reveals hundreds of new cases continue to emerge.

In August 2014, the Alexis Jay report identified 1,400 cases of child sexual exploitation in the Yorkshire town. But Sky News has learned that hundreds more cases were known to authorities prior to its publication and that hundreds more are being reported.

Victims continue to feel let down by authorities. One survivor “Gemma” told Sky News: “It’s still going on if not worse, because now they’re having to hide it more. I’m still seeing my abusers driving young girls in their car. They’re untouchable.”

Jayne Senior, who ran an outreach programme for victims in Rotherham called Risky Business, has revealed that she reported nearly 1,700 cases of grooming or sexual exploitation to the council’s children’s services between 1999 and 2011. This was a shorter time period than that examined by the report.

“I was accused of saying too much, of sharing too much information, reporting too much intelligence,” she told Sky News in her first interview. “Risky Business didn’t make all this up. It was accused of making it all up and Alexis Jay exonerated all of that.” The report found Risky Business was seen by the borough’s social care services “as something of a nuisance”.

Risky Business was shut down in 2011 and victims have expressed frustration that a recent application to set up a new support group has been turned down by the council despite recommendations in the Jay report. “It shouldn’t have been shut down,” one victim told Sky News. “Because that was an agency that was trying to tackle the situation. But knowing now that it was all a cover-up then I think it was closed down because they were trying to tackle the problem.”

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  1. *I* think – and have thought for some time – that the Mothers’ Union should step in. *They* could offer to help these poor girls in Rotherham and elsewhere: help the survivors put their lives back together…and at the same time, MU members in Britain could engage in a massive nationwide protest and lobbying campaign to make damn sure that any and all actual or attempted coverups get exploded; that nobody, but nobody, is allowed to get away with it.

    Sooner or later, MU everywhere is going to have to confront the reality that sharia is inimical to everything that MU stands for; and our members (I am a member of MU Australia) are going to have to put huge pressure on all our governments, in every majority-non-Muslim country where MU is present (and that’s not only a large chunk of the Anglosphere, but also India, and a big chunk of Africa!) to *end* all accommodation of any aspect of the sharia and punish severely – by measures up to and including deportation – all mohammedan practices such as polygyny, child ‘marriage’, forced ‘marriage’, FGM, and actual or attempted ‘honor’ murders that take place on our soil. We should be campaigning for a burqa-and-niqab ban; and a ban on wearing of hijab by Muslim girls attending any state school or church-run school. And we will have to campaign against the immigration of Muslims and in ‘the west’ we can demand that all ‘refugee’ / humanitarian visa places be reserved for the *non-Muslim* victims of Muslim persecution…such as the Christians of Iraq and Syria.

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