Posted on May 9, 2012 by creeping
Since when is luring young girls with drugs and alcohol,
kidnapping and selling them to be raped termed “grooming”? Apparently
only when Pakistani Muslims, err “Asians”, do it. Do these guys look
“Asian”? 
Top – Abdul Qayyum, Hamid Safi, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Rauf; Bottom – Abdul Aziz, Mohammed Amin, Adil Khan, Mohammed Sajid.
Wanted: Mohammed Shahzad
Mistakes by police, social services and
the Crown Prosecution Service led to potentially dozens of young girls
being raped, beaten and trafficked by a child exploitation ring, it
emerged yesterday.
A failure in 2008 to believe a 15-year-old
girl’s evidence that she had been systematically groomed at the hands
of a network of taxi drivers and takeaway workers in Rochdale, Greater
Manchester, led to at least two more years of abuse being meted out to
the gang’s victims, many of whom have still not come forward.
Nine men were described as “pure evil” by detectives as they were convicted at Liverpool Crown Court for the on-street grooming of vulnerable young people.
The 11-week trial heard how the girls,
aged between 13 and 15, were befriended with the offer of alcohol and
drugs, kebabs, or mobile-phone credits by the older men at late-night
outlets before being sexually exploited by up to 50 men across the North
of England. One 15-year-old victim described how she was forced to have
sex with up to 20 men in one day. Another told how she was raped by two
men as she was being sick from alcohol. Police interviewed 47 potential
victims but proceedings were only bought in connection with five of
them.
In the end, the panel of nine women and
three men took five days to find Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Aziz, Abdul Rauf,
Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a
59-year-old man – who cannot be named for legal reasons – guilty of
exploiting the five young victims on 25 of the 35 charges they faced.
Two defendants, Liaquat Shah, 41, and Qamar Shahzad, 30, both of Rochdale, were cleared of all charges.
Det Ch Supt Mary Doyle, head of public
protection at Greater Manchester Police, said the men subjected their
victims to years of degradation. “It was pure evil. They were exploiting
the vulnerable in our society for their own gratification,” she said.
The men, who were predominantly of
Pakistani descent, passed the girls around the network, paying their
victims to recruit other young people for them to abuse. A teenage girl
referred to by the gang as the “Honey Monster”, who helped procure
victims, was not charged in the public interest.
Mohammed Shafiq, chief executive of the
Ramadhan Foundation, accused Pakistani community elders of “burying
their heads in the sand” on the issue of on-street grooming.
He said: “There is a significant problem
for the British Pakistani community; there is an over-representation
amongst recent convictions in the crime of on-street grooming. There
should be no silence in addressing the issue of race as this is central
to the actions of these criminals. They think that white teenage girls
are worthless and can be abused without a second thought; it is this
sort of behaviour that is bringing shame on our community.”
Race or Islam?In the U.S. they won’t call traffickers of underage girls Muslims either. Just Somalis…who get special Islamic prayer breaks during trial.
