The grooming gangs horror goes on and on.
Earlier this week, the National Crime Agency (NCA) announced that the first set of closed “grooming gang” cases, where viable lines of inquiry may have been missed, have been referred back to police from eight force areas.
Those forces have been told to reopen the cases and consider what further investigation is needed.
Why? Because apparently the police too swiftly and easily closed the cases on account of how hey these are working class girls so they must be lying because they’re racists.
Operation Beaconport was launched last year in response to Baroness Casey’s recommendations into group-based sexual exploitation, otherwise known as “grooming gangs”.
As part of this, the NCA asked all police forces in England and Wales to examine 15 years’ worth of records, and to identify and refer cases of group-based child sexual abuse and exploitation that were reported to police in that time, involved two or more suspects, and where a decision was made by police or the CPS to take no further action.
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Initial reviews have indicated that potential lines of inquiry in some cases had been missed due to “human error.”
Rape Crisis England & Wales welcomes this week’s announcement. We want justice for survivors.
However, Casey’s findings were very clear: too many victims and survivors were not listened to, not believed, and not supported in the way they should be. Many were further traumatised by a criminal justice system that was meant to protect them. This must not be repeated, and police must learn from past mistakes, especially where police-initiated contact may be involved.
Why were they not listened to, not believed, not supported? Because class, and immigration, and Islam. These nasty slutty girls must be racists and Islamophobes, so into the dead file their reports go.
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