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https://www.thetimes.com/comment/columnists/article/no-one-talks-girls-grooming-scandal-52phr8jm7
Sammy, like many of the groomed girls I have interviewed over the years, explained how easy it is for a vulnerable teenager to become ensnared. “Ash made me feel special with his designer clothes, giving me jewellery and picking me up from school in his car. He bought me McDonald’s. Everyone envied me. The teachers all knew; the shopkeepers, the police, the social workers; everyone was in on it.” For years, Hussain plied Sammy with vodka and spliffs and raped her on stained mattresses in abandoned flats with his friends. Sometimes he would hold a gun to her head, thrash her until she lost consciousness or force her to commit crimes, she said
This is partly a story about the reluctance to call out despicable behaviour by particular ethnic groups. But it is also about our willingness to label a group of vulnerable, often working-class, girls or children in care “sluts”, “whores” and “slags”. When the police, teachers and social workers turned a blind eye, it wasn’t always because they didn’t want to be deemed racist but because, as one girl from Oxford told me: “They were snobs. They treated us with contempt because they thought we were working-class girls who were asking for it: that we had voluntarily stumbled into this toxic world because we craved attention from men, but what we needed was help.”
Identifying future generations of children at risk is as important as searching for predators. “These crimes are still going on,” Andrew Norfolk, the Times journalist who first uncovered them, stresses. Nor are they confined to the UK. On a trip to research sex education in the Netherlands, I was told about how they coped with “loverboys”, men from Morocco and Turkey who were cultivating insecure young Dutch girls, wooing them with presents and trips in fast cars before coercing or blackmailing them into prostitution.
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Sammy, like many of the groomed girls I have interviewed over the years, explained how easy it is for a vulnerable teenager to become ensnared. “Ash made me feel special with his designer clothes, giving me jewellery and picking me up from school in his car. He bought me McDonald’s. Everyone envied me. The teachers all knew; the shopkeepers, the police, the social workers; everyone was in on it.” For years, Hussain plied Sammy with vodka and spliffs and raped her on stained mattresses in abandoned flats with his friends. Sometimes he would hold a gun to her head, thrash her until she lost consciousness or force her to commit crimes, she said
This is partly a story about the reluctance to call out despicable behaviour by particular ethnic groups. But it is also about our willingness to label a group of vulnerable, often working-class, girls or children in care “sluts”, “whores” and “slags”. When the police, teachers and social workers turned a blind eye, it wasn’t always because they didn’t want to be deemed racist but because, as one girl from Oxford told me: “They were snobs. They treated us with contempt because they thought we were working-class girls who were asking for it: that we had voluntarily stumbled into this toxic world because we craved attention from men, but what we needed was help.”
Identifying future generations of children at risk is as important as searching for predators. “These crimes are still going on,” Andrew Norfolk, the Times journalist who first uncovered them, stresses. Nor are they confined to the UK. On a trip to research sex education in the Netherlands, I was told about how they coped with “loverboys”, men from Morocco and Turkey who were cultivating insecure young Dutch girls, wooing them with presents and trips in fast cars before coercing or blackmailing them into prostitution.
https://archive.ph/SAfNz