Rotherham: 40 Arrested in Latest Child Sex Abuse Probe
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VIRGINIA HALE8, Breitbart
Police have arrested 40 suspects over the last two months in relation to a probe into allegations of serious child sex abuse in Rotherham, detectives have said.
The National Crime Agency (NCA) revealed the two women and 38 men from Sheffield, Rotherham, Leeds, Dewsbury and Maidstone were questioned over historic sexual abuse and exploitation of victims as young as 11, alleged to have taken place between 1997 and 2015.
All suspects arrested or interviewed since March in relation to the NCA probe have been released or bailed pending further enquiries, detectives said in a press release.
Spokesman Carl Vessey-Baitson said: “Arresting such a large number of individuals, as part of one Stovewood sub-operation, shows our desire to listen to victims and bring offenders to justice is not wavering.
“Stovewood is a challenging and complex investigation, with victims and survivors reliving abuse that took place many years ago.
“To date we have engaged with over 410 victims and survivors and have arrested or interviewed by appointment 94 suspects, meaning this is the largest law enforcement investigation into non-familial child sexual abuse and exploitation ever undertaken in the UK.
“Conducting such an investigation can only be achieved with the support and co-ordination of our partners, and South Yorkshire Police and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council continue to provide invaluable assistance,” he added.
Operation Stovewood was launched in 2014 following the publication of the Jay Report — an independent inquiry which revealed authorities in South Yorkshire including the police, social services and Labour-controlled local council had turned a blind eye to the sexual exploitation, trafficking and rape of more than 1,400 mainly working-class white girls out of concern that taking action against their mostly-Pakistani abusers would harm so-called community relations.
Six trials relating to Stovewood investigations have been held so far, resulting in more than a dozen men jailed, while detectives at the NCA have identified 1,523 victims affected by the systematic grooming and abuse which took place in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.
This shows how good and honest Alexis Jay's report was - to identify 1400 girls in a small city, and then to have police recently raise that number to 1523, just validates the report. But Jay's report was far from the first; there were several reports many years earlier that, had they been heeded, would have saved hundreds of girls from years of a nightmarish existence. But cowardly, politically correct attitudes doomed them to astonishing suffering.
A preliminary report in 2000 by Adele Weir on the child sex abuse at Rotherham linked 54 abused children to the Hussain family, as of October 2001. Eighteen children had named one of those men, Arshid Hussain (then around 25), as their "boyfriend", and several had become pregnant. One of the 18 girls—14 years old at the time—got pregnant twice. In 2014 she told Panorama that social workers had expressed concern about Hussain being around a baby because of his history of violence, but had not, according to the victim, expressed the same concern for her; she told Panorama that they maintained her relationship with him was consensual. (In February 2016 Arshid Hussain was convicted of multiple rapes and jailed for 35 years.)
Weir wrote in October 2001 to Mike Hedges, the Chief Constable of South Yorkshire Police, and to Christine Burbeary, the District Commander. The letter said:
I have been visiting agencies, encouraging them to relay information to the police. Their responses have been identical—they have ceased passing on information as they perceive this to be a waste of time. Parents also have ceased to make missing person reports, a precursor to any child abduction investigation, as the police response is often so inappropriate. ... Children are being left at risk and their abusers unapprehended.
The letter was not well received by the council or police.[96][97] During a meeting at Rotherham police station with senior police and council officials, they seemed incensed that Weir had written to the Chief Constable. Jayne Senior, who was present, said Weir was subjected to a "tirade that lasted I don't know how long". According to Weir, at some point after this an official warned her against mentioning Asian men:
She said you must never refer to that again. You must never refer to Asian men. And her other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues.
In 2002, Weir's files went missing from her office. Her computer was compromised, and minutes of fictitious staff meetings were installed on her computer - meetings in which she was present and agreed to things she would never agree to, even though in one of those meetings she was on vacation overseas.
This story goes on and on with police and council burying the ever-increasing evidence that 11, 12, 13 year old British girls were being groomed, beaten, gang-raped, threatened, drugged, impregnated and almost entirely by Pakistani men. And it had been going on for decades.
For more, if you are able to stand it, please see Wikipedia here.
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