Newcastle sex abuse ring
The Newcastle sex abuse ring were a gang of seventeen men and a woman who sexually abused adolescent girls and young women from 2010–2014 in Newcastle upon Tyne after plying them with alcohol and drugs. The men were of Bangladeshi, Indian, Iranian, Iraqi and Pakistani heritage who were aged between 27 and 44. The woman was a 22-year-old British white woman.[1][2][3]
The British Labour politician Sarah Champion claimed regarding media news about this and previous trails, that there is a need to “acknowledge” that in all of the towns where similar cases have occurred “the majority of the perpetrators have been British Pakistani”. She said: "We have got now, hundreds of Pakistani men who have been convicted of this crime, why are we not commissioning research to see what is going on and how we need to change what is going on. (...) I genuinely think that it’s because more people are afraid to be called a racist than they are afraid to be wrong about calling out child abuse.”[4][5]
References
- ↑ Operation Sanctuary
- ↑ Eighteen found guilty over Newcastle sex grooming network
- ↑ In profile: Members of the Newcastle grooming gang
- ↑ "MP on Pakistani rape gangs: People are more afraid to be called a racist then they are to be wrong about child abuse". The Independent. 2017-08-10. Retrieved 2017-08-12.
- ↑ "Yorkshire MP warns racism fears must be put to one side in battle to stop child sex grooming gangs". www.yorkshirepost.co.uk. Retrieved 2017-08-12.