Rotherham horror

[banryu79]

Originally Posted by Skybird

The striuctures that formed tis report now - have been a major reason for why this horror could unfold and was kept under the carpet for one and a half decades, beside victims sometimes showing up at the police and filing desperately information and name lists. Some girls were raped in group rapes and for half days long, most got raped frequently every week, some reported to have been raped by hundreds of men. One now 25 year old today was quoted with having said she was raped by 250 men - in one week. Her name list she filed at the police - is gone.

I have now completed the reading of the whole report and I could not buy your explanation. It is clearly just more complex and articulated than what you have just said above.

If I have to summarize my understanding (based only on the inquiry/report) I say that main culprit is ignorance followed by lack of professional training/preparation in the matter and finally lack of communication (between the different actors).
In fact, the inquiry shows that with those things taken care of the situation improved all along the years till today.

The section labeled "Organisational Culture" starting at pag. 113 of the inquiry is extremly enlightning about the unanticipated "complexities"... I warmly reccomend it.

Originally Posted by Skybird

Why is it that most of these files "disappeared" ? That the police and authorities looked the other way? Politicians remained silent? Note: as far as thge story is being told so far, the rapists all where linked to the Pakistani community and were members of a few Pakistani big families.

I could not take this either.
The inquiry shows that, in proportion, the biggest slice of the perpetrators belong to that community but by no means they are the only ones!

I strongly invite whoever is intrested to the specific aspect regarding the etnicity/culture/community of the perpetrators to download the inquiry and read the dedicated chapter (11 - Issues of ethnicity).