nomadking |
11-06-2013 00:33 |
Re: Child grooming gang found guilty
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Originally Posted by Hugh
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Penzance:- Gang of 4 or is it 3?
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Although no link was established between Wills and the others, two of the victims were abused by all four men.
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Machin was introduced to the victims in 2005 by convicted paedophile Barrett, who had already been grooming and abusing them before passing them on to other men to do the same.
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Sound more like a collaboration than a gang. Individuals starting and then finding others with similar interests.
Derby:- Gang or individuals? No passing them around the country or threats of violence.
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A jury took 12 hours to convict five of the predators, who all acted individually rather than as part of a gang, after three teenage victims gave evidence in a month-long trial. The three others had pleaded guilty earlier.
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But the intense interest in the Rochdale story arose from a January 2011 Times "scoop" that was based on the conviction of at most 50 British Pakistanis out of a total UK population of 1.2 million, just one in 24,000: one person per Penzance.
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There have been more convictions in the past year and there are 2 ongoing cases that I know of and another recent raid with arrests. The number of convictions is meaningless as they took them around the country for other "customers". Those "customers" are not included in that figure of 50. As the ones currently discovered were not known about at some point in time, that means there is the potential for others yet to be uncovered.
The question is what %age of a group would be willing to take part. Consider having to get together a group of 8 people to take part in a particular activity, not an illegal one, but a purely innocent one(eg stamp collecting, playing bridge). How many people would you have to ask before you could get a group of 8 together. If you had to only ask at most 100 people from your circle of family, friends, work colleagues, how does that compare to having to ask 100,000. The "activity" must be extremely popular amongst the set of 100 people. It must therefore be easy to form other groups of 8 by asking other sets of 100 people with the same characteristics. Eg it would be easier to form multiple cricket teams by asking Brits than by asking Americans. Conclusion a higher %age of Brits are into cricket than Americans.
One of the real concerns should be that these 'Asian' gangs didn't have to search far and wide for fellow participants, they were surrounded by them, in their family, friends, and work colleagues.
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