https://www.breitbart.com/politics/...e-brands-itself-childrens-capital-of-culture/
Child rape gangs hotspot Rotherham is attempting to brand itself “the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture”, attempting to distance itself from its reputation as the place where 1,400 girls were systematically groomed and raped while officials failed to act.
During the February school half-term Rotherham Council transformed its town centre into a playground “for the young community” as part of a wider festival.
This municipal government project has received £1.4 million in funding from the central government and that aims to reshape the deprived Northern town into a “cultural destination and home to a hive of creative talent” by 2025.
This push to style Rotherham a “Children’s Capital of Culture” will grate with members of the public familiar with the Jay Report which found that largely men largely of South Asian, Pakistani Muslim heritage systematically raped and groomed at least 1,400 young girls there between 1997 and 2013.
The author of the report, Professor Alexis Jay, said that “no-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years” and her “conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.”
Jay uncovered horrors including “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.”
“It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered,” she continued, suggesting “the authorities involved have a great deal to answer for”.
Jay found police “effectively suppressed” reports of the crimes, supposedly because they believed the claims were “exaggerated”.
Those who attempted to blow the whistle on the scandal were also discouraged byofficers [sic] who warned them that, as the abusers were largely Southg [sic] Asian and their victims largely white, a major investigation would be “rocking the multicultural boat”….
Child rape gangs hotspot Rotherham is attempting to brand itself “the world’s first Children’s Capital of Culture”, attempting to distance itself from its reputation as the place where 1,400 girls were systematically groomed and raped while officials failed to act.
During the February school half-term Rotherham Council transformed its town centre into a playground “for the young community” as part of a wider festival.
This municipal government project has received £1.4 million in funding from the central government and that aims to reshape the deprived Northern town into a “cultural destination and home to a hive of creative talent” by 2025.
This push to style Rotherham a “Children’s Capital of Culture” will grate with members of the public familiar with the Jay Report which found that largely men largely of South Asian, Pakistani Muslim heritage systematically raped and groomed at least 1,400 young girls there between 1997 and 2013.
The author of the report, Professor Alexis Jay, said that “no-one knows the true scale of child sexual exploitation in Rotherham over the years” and her “conservative estimate is that approximately 1,400 children were sexually exploited over the full inquiry period, from 1997 to 2013.”
Jay uncovered horrors including “children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.”
“It is hard to describe the appalling nature of the abuse that child victims suffered,” she continued, suggesting “the authorities involved have a great deal to answer for”.
Jay found police “effectively suppressed” reports of the crimes, supposedly because they believed the claims were “exaggerated”.
Those who attempted to blow the whistle on the scandal were also discouraged byofficers [sic] who warned them that, as the abusers were largely Southg [sic] Asian and their victims largely white, a major investigation would be “rocking the multicultural boat”….
