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**Hugh** · 10-01-2025, 22:07

I try not to humour posters who ask "closed" loaded questions - your question was the equivalent of "have you stopped beating your wife?".

What Professor Jay said in her report was

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Prof Jay's inquiry noted that "many of the high-profile child sexual exploitation prosecutions have involved groups of men from minority ethnic communities" but a lack of data means it is "impossible to know whether any particular ethnic group is over-represented as perpetrators of child sexual exploitation by networks".

I wonder why you didn’t ask the question

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What do you think exactly are the recommendations in the report that will get to the heart of the sexual abusers and address the cultural entitlement Catholic men in these communities feel they have to sexually abuse young white children with impunity?

From the report

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The investigation into the Roman Catholic Church in England and Wales revealed a sorry history of child sexual abuse where abusive priests and members of religious orders and institutions preyed on children for prolonged periods of time. Between 1970 and 2015, the Church received more than 3,000 complaints against more than 900 individuals connected to the Church. In the same period, there were 177 prosecutions, resulting in 133 convictions. Millions of pounds have been paid to victims and survivors in civil proceedings. Since 2016, there have been more than 100 reported allegations of recent and non-recent child sexual abuse every year. The true scale of abuse over a 50-year period is likely to be much greater.

As the Government states

https://www.gov.uk/government/speech...d-sexual-abuse

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Exploitation and gangs
Nor is there any excuse for anyone not to recognise and act on the deep harm and damage from organised gang exploitation, abuse, sexual assaults and rape.

Ten years ago 2 reports by Alexis Jay and Louise Casey into Rotherham found that 1,400 children were sexually exploited, raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked across other towns, abducted, beaten, threatened with guns, even children who had been doused in petrol, girls as young as 11 who were raped. Their reports identified then a decade ago, a failure to confront Pakistani heritage gangs and “a widespread perception that they should “downplay” the ethnic dimensions” for fear of being seen to be racist.

When those reports came out, those failings in Rotherham were condemned across the board by both government and opposition in this House, and as I said at the time “it is never an excuse to use race and ethnicity or community relations as an excuse not to investigate and punish sex offenders.” And the then Home Secretary made clear “cultural concerns and fear of being seen as racist must never stand in the way of child protection.”

The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse also ran a specific investigation strand into child sexual exploitation by organised networks – it ran for 2 years and produced a separate report in February 2022 which concluded that police forces and local councils were still failing to tackle this serious crime and set out further recommendations for change.