{"id":351856,"date":"2018-03-12T19:29:57","date_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-failed-to-act-as-1000-girls-beaten-pimped-raped-and-even-killed-over-40-years-in-britains-worst-grooming-scandal\/"},"modified":"2018-03-12T19:29:57","modified_gmt":"2018-03-12T18:29:57","slug":"police-failed-to-act-as-1000-girls-beaten-pimped-raped-and-even-killed-over-40-years-in-britains-worst-grooming-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/police-failed-to-act-as-1000-girls-beaten-pimped-raped-and-even-killed-over-40-years-in-britains-worst-grooming-scandal\/","title":{"rendered":"Police Failed to Act as 1,000 Girls Beaten, Pimped, Raped, and Even Killed Over 40 Years in Britain&#8217;s Worst Grooming Scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"\">\n<p>An investigation by the Sunday Mirror has revealed Britain\u2019s worst ever grooming scandal, which saw authorities paralysed for 40 years by fears of \u201cracism\u201d accusations as grooming gangs victimised up to a thousand girls in Telford.<\/p>\n<p>The left-leaning newspaper claims its 18-month investigation found \u201cabuse on unprecedented levels\u201d, with three women being killed when abuser Azhar Ali Mehmood burned down their home with them inside and two others dying in connection with the scandal.<\/p>\n<p>Social workers reportedly knew of the abuse, which saw girls as young as 11 targeted, from the 1990s, but police took ten years to launch an investigation and the authorities failed to keep tabs on suspects and perpetrators from the South Asian community fearing \u201cracism\u201d accusations.<\/p>\n<p>Victims told the Sunday Mirror that the abuse \u2014 which is said to have begun in the 1980s \u2014 carries on to this day, and notes that police failed to investigate one recent case five times before a Member of Parliament directly intervened.<\/p>\n<p>The newspaper claims to have uncovered previously unseen files showing council staff chose to view girls being abused, trafficked, and even sold as \u201cprostitutes\u201d rather than victims.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p>A report by think tank Quilliam has found that more than eight out of ten men convicted of grooming gang offences have an &#8216;Asian&#8217; background, while victims are &#8220;almost exclusively white girls&#8221;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/WMYGngGPDf\">https:\/\/t.co\/WMYGngGPDf<\/a><\/p>\n<p> \u2014 Breitbart London (@BreitbartLondon) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BreitbartLondon\/status\/939860086075293699?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 10, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p> &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/redice.tv\/news\/revealed-police-failed-to-act-as-1-000-girls-beaten-pimped-raped-and-even-killed-over-40-years-in-britains-worst-grooming-scandal\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An investigation by the Sunday Mirror has revealed Britain\u2019s worst ever grooming scandal, which saw authorities paralysed for 40 years by fears of \u201cracism\u201d accusations as grooming gangs victimised up to a thousand girls in Telford. The left-leaning newspaper claims its 18-month investigation found \u201cabuse on unprecedented levels\u201d, with three women being killed when abuser [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2520,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-351856","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351856","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2520"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=351856"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/351856\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=351856"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=351856"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=351856"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}