It has been over 10 years since the publication of the Independent Inquiry into organised Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE), also known as the Jay Report, carried out by gangs of mainly Pakistani heritage men in the borough of Rotherham. The Jay report estimated that over 1,400 children and young people, predominantly female and white British, were victims of the gangs and failed by a range of public services including the police, social workers and local councils. This scandal shares similar features to other public sector failures but also has its own unique factors which are worthy of further analysis.
Concurrent themes were found in the Jay Report and the Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust investigations of 2010 and 2013 into excess mortality rates at the hospital. Crucial to understanding both is the role that new managerialism played especially in relation to performance management targets. Essentially, frontline services were redirected to meet these targets and frontline staff faced resource cuts and managerial pressure to prioritise organisational goals rather than serve their client group. Police officers were directed to solve car crime and burglary, which counted towards targets, instead of CSE which did not. Meanwhile, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) declined to take forward prosecutions of CSE because in an adversarial court system, victims that have been repeatedly drugged, traumatised and intimidated did not make effective prosecutorial witnesses.
Similarly, at Mid-Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust where hundreds of patients suffered poor care and neglect, frontline staff particularly in the Emergency Department (ED) were bullied and coerced into prioritising the four-hour admission or discharge target rather than deliver effective care. The NHS trust board, which did not include a single registered health professional, cut frontline resources including nursing staff and the vital equipment they relied upon to dangerous levels and tasked non-clinical receptionists to carry out triage of patients – a role that should be conducted by experienced nurses with additional training.
New managerialism also fostered bullying cultures and saw whistleblowers intimidated as the status of bureaucrats and non-professional managers was elevated because of their role in the production and curation of quantitative evidence. This led to the ‘McDonaldisation’ of policing, nursing and social work and saw professionals’ role become ever more fragmented and task focused, eroding their professional autonomy, creativity, discretion and compassion. In the clutches of bureaucratised public services, those in need of care were put at greater risk of dehumanisation. The traumatised victim of CSE who required holistic care and support, as well as protection from further intimidation and abuse, is blamed by police officers and social workers for ‘putting themselves at risk’ or ‘consenting to their own abuse’. The patient suffering from dementia lying in an unchanged bed becomes further dehumanised through the failure to deliver the fundamentals of care by exhausted and demoralised nurses.
However, unique to the scandal of CSE is the attempts to silence witnesses, whistleblowers, journalists and politicians to hide away the failures of multiculturalism and protect political power bases. At Rotherham efforts were made, and were largely successful, in undermining Risky Business, an independent organisation which advocated on behalf of and supported victims but was later brought under local authority control.
What perhaps has received little attention is the vulnerability of white British families in a modern high trust society, according to Giddens’s sociologically inspired definition of trust. The Pakistani heritage community has more in common with pre-modern societies based on kinship relations, local community ties, religious faith and tradition compared to white British society based on personal relationships, abstract systems and a future-oriented perspective. This enabled abusers to use their family networks, including children enrolled in local schools and older men working in taxi services, restaurants and public services, to identify, target and abuse their victims. Meanwhile, white British families placed their trust in public servants such as police officers and social workers for protection but when these failed, they were left uniquely vulnerable. Bauman explained how modern citizens, who had given up the right to use violence in their course of their daily affairs, were uniquely vulnerable when the state turned its violence against them. The Jay Report detailed how one family left the U.K. because they had no confidence that the local authorities would protect their child who was being repeatedly targeted by gangs.
A discussion needs to be had about the continued atomisation of white British society and the destruction of the family, including marriage and communities, which has such profound implications for the well-being of children and resilience to external threats. Social workers used the wrong model of child protection at Rotherham, based on familiar patterns of abuse, and removed children from the protective environment of the family and placed them in residential accommodation. This accommodation had been infiltrated already by perpetrators and consequently estrangement from family became a feature of this grooming strategy, along with intoxication through drugs, violent threats and intimidation and trafficking.
Since these scandals came to public attention, little has been done to prevent further harm to the public because there has been no accountability for failings that implicated all the regulatory bodies involved with the protection of the public as well as political leaders. Consequently, highly ranking professionals, senior leaders and politicians continue to oversee further public scandals such as the Post Office miscarriage of justice and the COVID-19 pandemic response. There is now a profound disconnect between democratically-elected politicians, who continue to fail upwards, and the public, leading to the destruction of a previously high trust society. Moreover, until the problem of ‘immoral authority’ is addressed, further scandals associated with multiculturalism, new managerialism and pharmaceutical egress will emerge, and the continued atomisation of our society will leave us and our children more vulnerable to abuse of all kinds.
Dr. Rowena Slope is a Senior Lecturer in Adult Nursing at Bournemouth University and author of Corporate Totalitarianism: Freedom, Power and Technology in the Modern Era and Care in the Iron Cage: A Weberian Analysis of Failings in Care. Subscribe to her Substack.
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I wonder about a couple of things:
1) What would be the reaction from the state, the media and the communities involved if it was mainly girls of Pakistani origin being targeted by white men?
2) In Pakistan, if a family find out that their daughter is involved in this kind of stuff, what would be a typical response?
Quite so, I mused about this on another thread a few days ago.
I suspect the reaction would be a lot less cucked and more violently sincere.
And therein lies one of the many problems with “multiculturalism”
I hear in some parts of India, women who use outside toilets or have to collect water run a rape gauntlet often.
And I am bloody sure you are correct.
Unfortunately, I think the response would be to kill her.
Who? Where?
Absolutely, the ridiculously named ”honour-killing”. Always female victims, of course. Never males, but that’s the patriarchal death cult culture for you.
A bit like the old slur “fallen woman”: we never talked about a fallen man in the same context.
Indeed. But historically males and females have always been held to different standards and there’s probably loads of other examples when you stop and think about it. For instance, what’s the male equivalent of ‘slag’? Unless one is using that word in a unisex fashion ( which isn’t typical ), it’s always been used as a derogatory description/insult of a female.
Bauman explained how modern citizens, who had given up the right to use violence in their course of their daily affairs, were uniquely vulnerable when the state turned its violence against them.
This is the heart of the matter. And it’s why, given the depth and extent of the catastrophe deliberately inflicted on our people by our rulers, that the Establishment must be deposed and replaced.
It’s honestly insane, it really is. What’s the point in even revoking an evil scumbag’s British citizenship if the ECHR then works in his favour and prevents him being deported? Well it’s those bloody, traitorous human rights lawyers again, isn’t it? You know, the ones that made themselves scarce during the crimes against humanity that was the Scamdemic?
I just can’t believe that this is allowed to happen and also how easy it is. What this article also brings up is this issue: why in the world would a victim of systemic, prolonged, organized, horrific sexual abuse, which was enabled and facilitated by ALL the authorities who were tasked with upholding the law and safeguarding vulnerable youngsters and failed in those duties, be doing still living in this place? Just why?
They should’ve ideally been given support in moving to a different city so that they could begin the healing process and not have to be re-traumatized every time they leave the house ( or order a taxi, take away or pop into a kebab shop ) with reminders all over the place or chance bumping into one of the associates/family members of their rapists and having to relive their horrendous ordeal.
No amount of therapy is going to aid recovery if you’re still living in that environment, surrounded by the very community of Muslims ( and authority figures ) that closed ranks and protected each other, while their husbands, dads and uncles preyed on you ( and they did nothing because they’re complicit!! ) because their culture says that this heinous abuse of young, white, disadvantaged girls is allowed. So I just don’t get that part at all, especially as there will come a time when your abusers, if they have actually been sent down, will get out of prison, and they’re most likely not the ones moving away due to the shame or fear of reprisals. Well, not in this piece of sh*t’s case, anyway;
”A convicted Rochdale grooming gang ringleader continues to live freely in the town where he committed his crimes, nearly a decade after being ordered to leave the country.
Qari Abdul Rauf, 55, has been working as a takeaway delivery driver in Rochdale, sparking concerns among local residents about the possibility of him encountering his victims during deliveries, the Daily Mail has reported.
Rauf was among nine members of a grooming gang jailed in 2012 for raping and trafficking young children across England, after which he served two-and-a-half years of a six-year prison sentence before he was released in November 2014.
Upon his release, Rauf was stripped of his UK citizenship and ordered to return to Pakistan.
One mother living near Rauf told reporters: “Nobody can believe that monster is still here, after what he did to those young girls.”
She expressed particular concern about his work as a delivery driver, saying: “I can’t believe he was delivering takeaways to peoples’ houses, just imagine it – you are one of his victims and you open the door to get your meal and he’s there.”
She revealed that Rauf had been using a takeaway delivery app last year, with the company’s sign visible on his car.
“What if he popped up on the doorstep of a girl he abused?” the neighbour added.”
https://www.gbnews.com/news/grooming-gang-leader-still-living-working-rochdale-nearly-10-years-after-deportation-order
“They should’ve ideally been given support in moving to a different city so that they could begin the healing process and not have to be re-traumatized every time they leave the house ( or order a taxi, take away or pop into a kebab shop ) with reminders all over the place or chance bumping into one of the associates/family members of their rapists and having to relive their horrendous ordeal.”
I don’t agree Mogs. Why should victims be uprooted? It is the perp who needs uprooting ie sent back to where he came from and if that is Britain then they must be shipped out to their ancestral country. Furthermore, the perps family must be placed on notice – any trouble and they too will be shipped out. We have to stop pandering to these medieval heathens.
In an ideal world, yes. But the problem is, as the article I linked demonstrates, this isn’t the case in reality, and I think it’s this way by design. Anything to screw up the lives and communities of native British citizens, fragment and divide the societies in which they live, while by contrast the rapists and their complicit, West-hating/pro-Sharia family, get to just resume and go about life like nothing ever happened. In fact, you’d think it would be *them*, the family, who would wish to relocate due to the absolute shame of being associated with somebody whose crimes were so abhorrent, but how often does this happen in reality? Does this not speak volumes about how these Muslims view white girls? That mindset doesn’t change with a prison sentence.
But as I say, there’s daily reminders which would give traumatic flashbacks, horrific memories of past experiences you want to move on from and leave behind, if a survivor of abuse stays put. This isn’t a time to be stubborn, it isn’t helpful for the recovery process. It’s also not helpful when/if the girl goes on to start a family of her own and if she has a daughter, imagine being always paranoid whenever your kid is out of your sight because you know the same predators and their enablers are still out there in the community…
Also, by all accounts none of this has actually gone away. They’ve caught and sent down some people but people are posting that it’s still going on, and I can well believe it because it’s an attitude thing. Both from the Muslim community and their general attitude of superiority, perma-victimhood status in society, hatred of/racism towards natives, plus the attitude of all in authority who ignored the crimes being committed in their midst because they’re shit scared of being labelled ”Islamophobic”, thereby enabling and empowering the perpetrators.
If this were one or two men or one or two areas in the UK, therefore being nearer to an ‘isolated incident’, I would agree with you, but it’s far too widespread and interwoven into the fabric of society in these locations. I think it comes down to personal safety and giving yourself a chance to recover psychologically and move on, which should be prioritized.
”A 12-year-old white girl is raped upstairs while 20 of the rapist’s uncles, cousins, brothers wait their turn downstairs.
This actually happened in our country.
Thousands of times.
But talking about it was “racist” so people were told to shut up.
Britain is sick.” Allison Pearson
You can see here this Iranian lady talking about how Muslim boys are being brainwashed in their Islamic schools. If boys are being taught this then what are the odds it’s being normalized within families so that when they grow up to be men it becomes accepted behaviour, even by the twisted f***er’s wife??
”Iranian heritage Lily Moo a Human Rights campaigner found imams in Birmingham encouraged them to abuse white girls.
“Muslim boys were poisoned into sexualising girls who were not muslim. Many went to a Friday school where the Imam encouraged them to assault white girls.”
https://x.com/DaveAtherton20/status/1876925997078958318
So, so glad I live in (semi) rural Scotland.
So many horrific examples and excerpts people are sharing online, it’s just vile, it really is. This was all just normalized for many years though, by those in a position of authority. Like an open secret. Well, it’s not only because they were complicit but some actually took part. Just reduce these underage, vulnerable girls to the status of ”prostitute” and all abuse becomes legitimized. Sick;
”Working through some documents.
Here, a 2003 South Yorkshire police report sets out how a 15 year old was found guilty of prostitution by the same man police found her having sex with.”
https://x.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1876691824116420865
”A 12-year-old girl is molested. She goes to the police, who tell her off for being drunk. While in the police station, she’s invited into a car by two other men. They rape her. She’s dropped off, and asks a man for directions. He invites her into his house, and rapes her. She is then picked up by another man, who takes her to an address where five men rape her.
The police don’t bother investigating the first two sets of crimes.”
https://x.com/SAshworthHayes/status/1876419612088176890
Source; https://www.greatermanchester-ca.gov.uk/media/6198/final-oldham-assurance-report-8-june-2022-14-digital-version.pdf
Of course, putting aside the horror of the crimes and the impact of the trauma on the victims and their families, the real reason little is being done is because this wasn’t taking place in a city of persecution, such as say, Liverpool, where everyone is always a victim and never a perpetrator (and about the only city where I have heard no mention of rape gangs). We would then have never ending calls for a Hillsborough style enquiry designed to bring the evil public servants who allowed this to happen to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.
Tom O’ Carroll did a blog on “grooming” back in 2015 when it was briefly in the news. He was chair of the PIE in the 70s. Good to hear all perspectives, free speech and all that.
https://heretictoc.com/2013/06/17/street-grooming-a-nut-to-be-cracked/
Post Office, CoVid Fakedemic & mRNA vaccine atrocity, Net Lunacy.
This gang-rape scandal is the pinnacle of the rottenness, corruption, malevolence and evil in the self-serving Establishment.
They hate us and have only contempt for us… we are disposable as long as their interests are served.
We need rid of the whole lot, not just the top level politicians.
We need full accountability, for all those involved in these heinous and horrific crimes.
The police, social services, councils and MPs who knew what was happening and either ignored it, or allowed it to happen – scum.
As bad as the perpetrators, or in some cases worse.
They should be removed from ever being in public (whom they betrayed) service, and face extensive jail time.
I don’t know why their is this insistence on talking about grooming. Sex with children is statutory rape and opbviously profoundly evil. The use of a particularly soft euphemism seems out of place when used by those who want to express sympathy for the victims. Grooming is something that you might do for an animal you look after and he might even enjoy it. It isn’t as if everyone is going to be upset if they read the word ‘rape’ or even child rape.
It all depends whether it was consensual or not, lumping the pimping, raping, drugging and threats of violence the same as a consensual relationship that you get when an underage girl is with someone the same age and older. Rind et al 1998 on the assumed harms of CSA,
That’s true but in the case of these gangs their behaviour was unequivocally predatory.
Why when the children were clearly underage did they have to prove they were reliable witness……a 12 year old girl and 5 middle aged men, were not watching fairy tales together.
The more that is exposed, the clearer it becomes that everything was done to cover up, the entire affair.
That was the AOC in England before 1885 if I remember correctly, mostly to do with emerging feminism and child prostitution in London. The innocent child is a Victorian invention. The gang rape is another matter because of the coercion and threats that were exposed by the victims.
The Mcdonalisation issue is taught as part of MBA courses. I remember speaking to a few lads from Kenya doing this course and they were shocked at how much western countries had cheapened themselves. They worked part time for British banks and were horrified by working conditions compared with their home country. You have to feel revulsion that you country has been turned into this cheap and nasty horrorshow. And you have to come to terms with your own place in it.
The only advice I can give is don’t join the Dirty Dollops Society. That will come up even in our diseased society. If you make a conscious choice not to be a dirty dollop then other options will open up to you.
Who is the young woman in this photo? Why is there no name? I wonder if she was consulted? Andrew Norfolk said on the radio yesterday that the victims are having to relive their trauma all over again so many years after it took place, and some commentators who are jumping on the bandwagon now should take note.
That’s Sammy Woodhouse, she is a survivor of these monsters and even kept the child she had from one of them. That’s a whole other story you should look into. She has been fighting the authorities for years on behalf of the victims. She is a very vocal and brave woman in this whole heinous saga.
Starmer will not hold a Public Inquiry because he KNOWS that a very large number of so-called “Public Servants” will be implicated ….. and they were doing it because the Multi-Culti-obsessed Establishment effectively told them not to protect the girls in order to “protect social cohesion” ….. ie maintain the LIE about the supposed success of Multi-culturalism.
Do not worry, REFORM are going to hold a public enquiry and WILL publish all the hearings. Of course Stalin may attempt to stop this, if so you know he is involved and should be in prison. Did you notice that the Reform private prosecution of another alleged Villon resulted in actual Police and CPS action? Publicity is a very powerful weapon.
Maybe Americans, with their distrust of authority particularly governments, maintain their right to arm themselves and protect their families, are right afterall. This trusting society that has been developed over decades, ill prepares people the ability to protect and defend themselves and their families. Governments, the media and the police have become their enemy.
The “‘McDonaldisation’ of policing, nursing and social work” might be a good idea. If these organisations were run as well as McDonald’s (which generally delivers absolutely consistent quality and service everywhere) we would all be better off.