This monster has no rights over his victim’s child
MORALITY continues to be turned on its head by the twisted dogma of political correctness. Due to this pernicious ideology, that state has often lost sight of its duty to protect the vulnerable. Instead, the toxic culture of inverted values means that the rights of abusers can be elevated above those of their victims.
Nothing illustrates that process of moral degradation more graphically than an appalling case in Rotherham, where social services encouraged a convicted serial rapist to apply for access to the child conceived by one of his rapes.
As this paper reported yesterday Sammy Woodhouse was a young teenager when she was targeted by Arshid Hussain, the ringleader of a predatory child-grooming gang in the south Yorkshire town. In a saga of prolonged abuse, Ms Woodhouse was repeatedly plied with drink, given drugs and raped.
At the age 15, she became pregnant by Hussain, who later received a jail sentence of 35 years for his long catalogue of predatory sex crimes against Ms Woodhouse and eight other girls.
Ms Woodhouse suffered enough at the hands of this monster, especially because the mounting evidence of abuse was wilfully ignored for too long by the Rotherham authorities.
But now the scars of her ordeal have been worsened by the outrageous decision of the municipal care workers to list Hussain as a “respondent” in the family court proceedings. As a result of this he potentially has the right not only to be informed about Ms Woodhouse’s son but could even contact him and have a say in his future.
AND in trying to defend this sickening move, Rotherham Council bleats about its legal duties to parents – but this is judicial obeisance carried to a perverse level.
Only in the mind of a boxticking bureaucrat, devoid of any compassion or common sense, would it be thought that a rapist should have any legal involvement at all in the life of a child he fathered through his own criminal behaviour. There can be no question of parental so-called “rights” or responsibility where rape is concerned. The very concept of human rights was designed to fight the oppression of the innocent and marginalised. Teenage girls in Rotherham, targeted by predatory gangs of adult men, fit precisely into that category.
Yet, through the machinations of the politically correct brigade, the idea of human rights is now used as a vehicle to uphold the interests of the oppressors like Hussain.
As Ms Woodhouse herself put it yesterday, “I’m told he’s got his human rights. What about my human rights?”
She says she feels “scared and angry”. There is, tragically, a pattern of official disdain and neglect towards her, driven by heavily politicised notions of equality. She says that, during the two years of abuse she endured from Hussain and his like-minded colleagues, “the police and social services knew what was going on”. But the authorities refused to act because of their concerns about accusations of racism.
Ms Woohouse’s experience was repeated by a vast number of other girls in Rotherham, as was made all too clear in the inquiry conducted by Professor Alexis Jay into the town’s longrunning paedophile scandal. In her report published in August 2014, Professor Jay revealed that more than 1,400 children were sexually abused by gangs between 1997 and 2013.
The scale of the horror was only made possible by the collusion of Rotherham officialdom, which indulged in a vast cover-up. According to the Jay study, the council was determined to “play down the race dimension” and staff were terrified to speak out “for fear of being thought racist”.
This left gangs like Arshid Hussain’s free to act with impunity and today that reality of past chronic inaction demolishes Rotherham Council’s claim of “legal requirements” to inform Hussain about Ms Woodhouse’s son.
As the council pen-pushers and equality obsessives know only too well, there is a far bigger legal requirement to stop child abuse and rape. It is not as if Rotherham authorities did not have the will to intervene. The same town hall, which was so feebly impotent in the face of paedophile gangsters, was all too energetic when it decided in 2011 to remove three children from the home of their adoptive parents who were reported to be Ukip supporters.
IN THE council’s McCarthyite language the parents’ political allegiance “did not fit” their children’s “cultural and ethnic needs”. So where did rape fit into any child’s cultural needs?
Rotherham was never unique. A string of subsequent court cases showed there were sex gangs operating throughout the country, in places as diverse as Telford, Oxford and Newcastle.
Nor is it likely that Ms Woodhouses’s case is an isolated one, given the stranglehold that the politically correct creed has on social work, policing and the courts.
As a former director of Dorset social services said yesterday, “contemporary fashions” underpin “the notion that perpetrators are victims and hence deserve equal status to those they abuse”.
That makes it vital to change the law so that rapists are never allowed contact with the children they produce.
Too many victims, such as Sammy Woodhouse, have been let down by the state.
They cannot be failed twice.
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