Alexis Jaypresident of the Commission of Inquiry on child sexual abuse in Rotherham has spoken for ‘Horizonte’. The official investigator who began to uncover the Rotherham horror has spoken out after Elon Musk has revived a political debate in the UK around the crimes committed by groups of men who for several decades were systematically dedicated to capture and rape children in English towns.
The words of Alexis Jaypresident of the Commission of Inquiry on child sexual abuse in Rotherham to ‘Horizonte’
“The report we worked on spanned 16 years, from 1997 to 2013. Since we saw the magnitude of the problem we could not get over our astonishment,” she told us, who assured that during all this time of investigation, “although establishing the true scale of child sexual exploitation anywhere, we did not alone in Rotterdam, it was a mission impossible.”, although a conservative estimate was made, according to which, “about 1400 children were sexually abused”.
Which explained that a third of the affected children were already known to Social Services previously due to situations of vulnerability and child abandonment: “They were raped by multiple perpetrators, taken to other cities and towns in the north of England. They were kidnapped, beaten and “There were girls who were doused with gasoline and threatened with being set on fire. They had guns pointed at them while they witnessed brutally violent rapes and were threatened that they would be next if they told what was happening.”
At that stage, in which girls and boys as young as 11 were raped by a large number of male perpetrators, “They would take these girls, sometimes they would even pick them up at school at lunch time.” to bring them before the abusers and They had oral sex in the back of their taxis and then taking them back to school for their afternoon classes, a pattern of behavior that “was not unique to Rotherham and was much more widespread in other areas of England.”
“The girls, who at a given time were between 15 and 16 years old, were discarded because they were considered too old and not attractive enough for the men who paid for these services,” explained the researcher.
“The vast majority of young victims identified their perpetrators as being of British-Pakistani or Asian origin.”
Alexis Jay told us that they reviewed the records and the vast majority of the young victims identified the perpetrators “as of British-Pakistani or Asian origin”, What led to it becoming an issue was very difficult: “It became extraordinarily complicated politically. One of the reasons why there was absolute silence for years was due to the political dimension of it, they did not want to obtain the data described in the report. Nobody could say that it was not known because there were at least three independent reports made between 2000 and 2005 that denounced all this and which were sent to the police and the city council.
Reports that he could not have been clearer in describing the situation in Rotherham: “The first of these reports They were discarded because the data was not believed, there were high-ranking people who said it was not accurate. Another was discarded because They refused to believe in the links that existed between child exploitation, drugs, weapons and crime. And in the latest case, the UK Government commissioned an investigation by a young woman who had shown a particular interest and who was a lawyer. She was persecuted for the report she submitted and was not allowed to continue her work. “Many people, including senior officials, managers, the police and local authorities underestimated the magnitude and seriousness of the problem.”
“Those politicians didn’t think this issue was important enough.”
“The police did not give priority to these children who were being raped and abused, they treated many of the child victims with contempt, they considered them responsible for their own abuse. The politicians ignored it all, even though on some occasions decent senior officials They tried to inform them about it,” he assured and sentenced: “Those politicians didn’t think this issue was important enough. At first they refused to believe it, when presented with evidence they altered it and suppressed it. “Those politicians, those people should have been held accountable for what they did.”
Source: www.cuatro.com
