[wanabidii] Fw: 1400 children raped and trafficked in British town by men of Pakistani Muslim heritage

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ASSIST News Service (ANS) - PO Box 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609-0609 USA Visit our web site at: www.assistnews.net -- E-mail: assistnews@aol.com Thursday, August 28, 2014 1400 children raped and trafficked in British town by men of Pakistani Muslim heritage By Mark Ellis Senior Correspondent, ASSIST News Service SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA (ANS) -- A shocking report released by an independent commission in the UK found that at least 1,400 minors in the town of Rotherham - some as young as 11 - were beaten, raped, and trafficked over a 16-year period by men of Pakistani Muslim heritage. Five men convicted in 2010 for sex abuse in Rotherham The vast majority of the victims were young white girls. Some officials in the town turned a blind eye to the sexual abuse, believing social workers were exaggerating the claims, while others worried about being labeled as racist if they spoke out, according to the New York Times. The report accused officials of ignoring "a politically inconvenient truth" in ignoring allegations of men of Pakistani heritage grooming vulnerable white girls for sex. The report chronicled the period between 1997 and 2013. Some children were drenched in gasoline and threatened with being set on fire if they reported their abuse, others were threatened with guns or forced to witness brutally violent rapes and told they would be next if they told their parents. Professor Alexis Jay, the author of the report and a former chief inspector of social work, said the young girls - mostly from disadvantaged backgrounds - were brutalized by groups of men. She said her estimate of 1,400 victims was "conservative." "They were raped by multiple p erpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten and intimidated," Jay wrote. Many of the cases involved "grooming" children over several years with the aid of drugs and alcohol. One child rape victim in the town, known as Emma, told a BBC radio program on August 27th that she slowly developed a relationship with her abusers over several years. "After being groomed for quite a while, I started going into Rotherham town center, and I was hanging around with grown men," she said. "They started introducing alcohol and soft drugs to me. And then, when I was 13, I was sexually exploited by them." MORE     See all ASSIST News articles at www.assistnews.net Mark Ellis is a senior correspondent for ASSIST News Service and the founder of www.Godreports.com.  He is available to speak to groups about the plight of the church in restricted countries, to share stories and testimonies from the mission field, and to preach the gospel. mark@Godreports.com ** You may republish this story with proper attribution. Send this story to a friend. Note to our subscribers: It you really appreciate what we do through ANS and would like to make a donation to help us continue with this unique news service, you can do so in two ways. First, just go to our secure site at www.assistnews.net/assist/donations.htm, where you can sign up for a monthly gift or a one-off contribution (tax-deductible in the US). Second, if you prefer to send a check, just make it out to ASSIST, and mail it to ASSIST, PO Box, 609, Lake Forest, CA 92609, USA (also tax-deductible in the US). Thank you so much for caring! Dan Wooding ASSIST News Service is Sponsored By

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