Michael Higgins: The woke ideology that allowed authorities to sit back as children were raped
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Social workers, police, judges and politicians were so afraid of being called racist, they allowed this evil abuse of society's most vulnerable to flourish for more than a decade and a half.
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What those in authority refused to acknowledge was that children — some mentally or physically disabled, some in the care of social services, many from working-class homes, nearly all white — were being serially abused by men, with a disproportionate number of predators being of South Asian origin.
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The opening paragraph of the report, 'National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse' by Louise Casey, says that, ' 'Group-based child sexual exploitation,' rare though it may be, is one of the most heinous crimes in our society.'
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But 'group-based child sexual exploitation' is too sanitized a phrase, writes Casey, when what is involved is 'multiple sexual assaults committed against children by multiple men on multiple occasions; beatings and gang rapes. Girls having to have abortions, contracting sexually transmitted infections, having children removed from them at birth.'
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The reports says that, 'To prevent it we have to understand it,' but 'we have failed in our duty to do that to date.'
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Evidence from media, police and local inquiries about 'grooming gangs,' operating particularly in northern England, go back almost two decades.
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Many police forces did not keep data on the ethnicity of the perpetrators, but Casey found there was enough evidence to 'show disproportionate numbers of men from Asian ethnic backgrounds amongst suspects for group-based child sexual exploitation.'
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A review of local inquiries and prosecutions showed that, 'These cases indicate a wide geographical spread of cases involving Asian/Pakistani perpetrators across the country.'
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'More often than not, the official reports do not discuss the perpetrators, let alone their ethnicity or any cultural drivers. There is a palpable discomfort in any discussion of ethnicity in most of them. Where ethnicity is mentioned, it is referred to in euphemisms such as 'the local community,' or it is buried deep in the report and only vaguely referenced in any contents index or executive summary,' reads the Casey report.
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