Time for apologies over grooming gang scandal
Bill Wyman, ex-Rolling Stone bassist, Kevin Kline, actor, Sarah Greene, TV presenter Jonathan Davies, rugby Caprice, model, Dervla Wayne Rooney, footballer SADLY the grooming gang cases didn’t surprise me, but what appals me is why the media aren’t calling for West Yorkshire Police and Kirklees Council to apologise for the disgusting way they have turned their backs on these young girls and their families for decades.
As an ex-councillor I was horrified to hear Kirklees Head of Social Services say these crimes were committed when these things weren’t understood. What poppycock!
As in Rotherham, everyone turned their backs on these girls and families for fear of the race card.
Let’s get it out there. It’s the truth. It took volunteers to come to these brave girls’ aid who all but kicked down the doors of authority to no avail.
The Jay Report was very clear in the case of Rotherham ie. mainly Pakistani men were industrial-scale grooming young, mainly white girls who were left to their fate because of the race card.
Your columns quote statistics but don’t mention the one that matters, 90 per cent of these convicted grooming gang members, are of Pakistani origin and almost all victims are white young girls (ref Jay Report)!
Kirklees say an investigation will happen. There should be pressure put to bear for a totally independent Jay-type inquiry. As no-one has called for other victims to come forward I will. Please, if there is anyone out there in West Yorkshire who know of such things going on now or before, or families who’ve struggled alone so far, come forward, safe in the knowledge that the whole world knows and believes now. Now West Yorkshire Police and Kirklees, where are your apologies? Tell the others that it’s safe to come to you and be believed. Do your jobs now for their sakes properly! God bless those girls – they came forward and survived. SOME will be experiencing Universal Credit, a system where many benefits will be rolled into one, are being told they will be worse off under the flagship report.
At the same moment in time judges, because of low morale, are due a 30pc increase in pay.
Something like £60,000 a year, while many are visiting food banks. Where is the justice in this sort of rise? The poor are getting poorer and the rich getting richer.
Theresa May promised a fairer society, it seems this promise has gone up in smoke.
Those who work in prisons and schools are finding their jobs difficult, so this government’s answer is to give them a good pay rise, simply the wrong solution to stop trouble.