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Originally Posted by Pierre
Plus culturally, white abusers are unlikely to have a drunk or drugged teenager in their flat, and then call uncles, cousins, brothers to come over and rape her.
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If I were to call you to come over in that situation I would expect either:
A. You report me to the police.
B. You distance yourself from me but possibly don't take any action.
C. You pop over to the flat.
I would guess C is the most unlikely, but for some cultures it seems it's not that clear cut.
There needs to be an inquiry that concentrates on the specific issue of these grooming gangs, the cultural element and why the authorities did not take action. The claims that the police and social services have learnt from it is not a good enough answer, the public needs to know what lessons they have learned and what action is being taken.
My wife is a social worker, she has worked for a number of local authorities and previously worked with similar vulnerable children. She told me many years ago that almost every town has at least one kebab shop or the like known to the authorities.
She has taken on cases where the white social workers have been afraid to take action because of the threats by certain cultures, for example where the males tell her they don't have to speak to her because "she is a woman" or threaten to report her for being racist. My wife is black, so unlike most white social workers she's not afraid of the racist label, she tells them to crack on and report her.
I don't think Starmer wants anything to do with an enquiry, because I think we are potentially looking at something which will end up being called the "Rape for votes scandal".