Ruthlessly Silenced

By lying to ourselves, more vulnerable girls are put at risk BRITISH author Frances Hardinge once wrote: “Truth is dangerous. It topples palaces and kills kings…And yet there is one thing that is more dangerous than Truth. Those who would … Continue reading →

Andrew Norfolk’s Perspective

A disturbing pattern is repeated again, and more cases to come The Northumbria prosecution means that Newcastle upon Tyne has joined a growing list of towns and cities in which groups of south Asian men have stood trial for street-grooming … Continue reading →

Four of the Rochdale grooming gang are fighting deportation – and only two are still in jail

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All four are mounting yet another legal challenge to fight plans to deport them to Pakistan All but two of the Rochdale grooming gang have been released from prison – and four of them are mounting yet another taxpayer-funded legal … Continue reading →

Child abuse survivor praises BBC’s Rochdale grooming drama Three Girls

A ROTHERHAM child abuse survivor has praised the BBC’s drama series Three Girls which shines a spotlight on the Rochdale grooming scandal. The three-part series, which concludes tonight, tells the real-life story of a sexual health worker’s battle with the … Continue reading →

Rochdale abuse drama will not further far-right racist agenda, writer says

Writer of Three Girls, exploring grooming by Asian men, says she is confident it does not give groups like EDL an opportunity The writer of a BBC drama exploring the widespread grooming and sexual assault of young women in Rochdale … Continue reading →

Child sex abuse gang face deportation to Pakistan

Four members of a child sex grooming gang are facing deportation to Pakistan after losing a legal battle today to stop the home secretary stripping them of their British citizenship. Britain’s most senior immigration judge has rejected their appeals against … Continue reading →

Rochdale child sex gang ringleader appeals against deportation

Shabir Ahmed tells tribunal his trial was ‘institutionally racist’ as he resists efforts to deport him to Pakistan The ringleader of a Rochdale child sex grooming gang cited human rights laws as he launched an appeal against deportation from Britain. … Continue reading →

Rochdale men jailed for ‘appalling and vile’ abuse

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Nine men jailed for Rochdale grooming of young teenager Ten men who groomed and sexually abused young girls in a town notorious for child exploitation have been jailed for a total of 127 years. Read on… http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/news/nine-men-jailed-for-rochdale-sex-grooming-of-young-teenager-lgcsdcgjh Rochdale men jailed … Continue reading →

News 3 March 2015

RR spots the Rochdale developments: Ten men charged over Rochdale child abuse claims http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-31695832 There will be an urgent question at 12.30pm in the Commons on the report into child sexual abuse in Oxfordshire published this morning. http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2015/mar/03/boris-johnson-hosts-his-lbc-phone-in-politics-live-blog About the … Continue reading →

News and Shorts 22 Oct 2014

Liverpool chief executive Ged Fitzgerald’s Rotherham child sex abuse scandal questioning to be boycotted by opposition leaders: http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-chief-executive-ged-fitzgeralds-7976534 The Guardian on reactions amongst Taxi firm in Rochdale: http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/21/rochdale-taxi-firm-white-drivers-on-request