‘Diversity’ Re-education for Rotherham Whistleblower

orFor the despicable protectors of political correctness and multiculturalism, the systematic sexual abuse of 1,400 girls over the course of a decade and a half — including some as young as 11 years of age — was the lesser of two evils that occurred in Rotherham, England. In a stunning testament to the bankruptcy of both ideologies, a researcher who blew the whistle on this appalling scandal more than a decade ago was sent to an “ethnic and diversity course” by child protection authorities after she revealed the ethnic identity of the abusers.

The revelation emerged in a segment of Panorama, a current-affairs program broadcast by the BBC that produced a report on the scandal. The researcher, a person from the United Kingdom’s Home Office who wished to remain anonymous, explained that she began encountering victims while working at Risky Business, a youth outreach organization set up by the Council, aka the local government. “The workers in that project were the only people that those young people trusted, that they were telling the complete story to,” the researcher told Panorama’s Alison Holt. “And some of the stories that I heard very early on were just so graphic that I don’t think I will ever forget them. I was collecting data on who the perpetrators were, what cars they were using, their grooming methods, their offending methods, and what I was also collecting, was information on professional responses.”

In 2002, the researcher documented that 270 young girls had been exploited in 2001. In the course of sharing her findings with the Council, she unwittingly violated a PC taboo: she revealed that the chief perpetrators of the abuse were men from the British Pakistani community.

The response of the Council was shocking. “They said you must never refer to that again, you must never refer to Asian men,” she revealed. “And [the] other response was to book me on a two-day ethnicity and diversity course to raise my awareness of ethnic issues.”

It gets worse. The researcher says she submitted her report to the Home Office and the Rotherham Council on a Friday. On either Saturday or Sunday, someone entered the offices of Risky Business where the backup data on her report were stored and took it. The researcher believes it was an inside job because there was no evidence of a break-in. “They’d gained access to the office and taken my data, so out of the number of filing cabinets there was one drawer emptied and it was emptied of my data. It had to be an employee of the council,” she contended. Adding insult to injury, the report was never published and according to Holt, “the council even tried unsuccessfully to get the researcher sacked.”

“I was subjected to the most intense personal hostility,” the researcher revealed. “There were threats made from a range of sources. I’ve never seen back-covering like it, and I still feel extremely angry about that.”

It is likely that certain aspects of her report drove the efforts to suppress it. One chapter noted the “alleged indifference towards, and ignorance of, child sexual exploitation on the part of senior managers” along with her contention that responsibility for the exploitation was “continuously placed on young people’s shoulders rather than with the suspected abusers.” “Had this report been treated with the seriousness it merited at the time by both the police and the council, the children involved then and later would have been better protected and abusers brought to justice,” the 2002 draft added.

Prof. Alexis Jay, who wrote an independent report on the scandal, The Independent Inquiry Into Child Exploitation in Rotherham, 1997-2003, paints a devastating picture of determined ineptitude, noting that more than a third of the children affected were “previously known to services because of child protection and neglect.” He describes the “appalling nature” of the abuse these children endured. “They were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to other towns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated,” he reveals. “There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone. Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators.”

The response by officials was equally appalling. Jay cites their “collective failures” despite “growing evidence” that child sexual exploitation (CSE) was occurring in Rotherham. He further notes that senior managers “underplayed” the problem and Police gave the CSE cases “no priority,” often treating the victims “with contempt” and “failing to act on their abuse as a crime.” He goes on to note that three separate reports from 2002, 2003, and 2006, known to both the Police and the Council “could not have been clearer in their description of the situation in Rotherham,” further explaining that the 2002 report written by the whistleblower was “effectively suppressed because some senior officers disbelieved the data it contained.

Martin Kimber, chief executive of Rotherham Borough Council, accepted the findings in Jay’s report, but claimed to know nothing about the alleged break-in at Risky Business. “The alleged ‘raid’ on the Risky Business office is not something that I am aware of and having made appropriate checks within the council, I am unable to find anyone who recognises this series of events as they have been presented to us,” he said in a released statement. “Similarly, I have been unable to find any reference within the Alexis Jay report to the alleged incident and have no other independent means of corroborating the allegations that are being put forward. If further information is made available which enables me to do so, I would be happy to look into it.”

South Yorkshire Police have promised to bring the perpetrators to justice, and have increased the number of investigators on the case from 10 to 45. “A number of large-scale investigations looking at historical and current sexual offences in Rotherham are ongoing and involve a large number of victims,” it said in a statement.

All well and good, but it can’t make up for the concerted effort to suppress this atrocity and the overriding reason for doing so. “Several staff described their nervousness about identifying the ethnic origins of perpetrators for fear of being thought as racist; others remembered clear direction from their managers not to do so,” Jay’s report states.

British Parliament member Simon Danczuk, who is calling for a mandatory reporting law that would make officials criminally liable for failing to report child abuse, confirms that assessment, noting that senior managers believed “political correctness and cultural sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,” and thus they were more interested “in ticking boxes in diversity training than protecting children.”

One is left to wonder if there is a lower depth to be plumbed than the suppression of child rape by the adherents of political correctness and multiculturalism. And make no mistake: at the heart of both concepts is the determined suppression and/or vilification of anyone who dares to defy these utterly bankrupt shibboleths. Bankrupt shibboleths that produce real victims. “I was a child and they should have stepped in,” a woman called “Isabel” to protect her identity, told Panorama. “No matter what’s done now… it’s not going to change that it was too late, it should have been stopped and prevented.”

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  • Hank Rearden

    Britain does not have a written Constitution as we do. That means that each Parliament is essentially a law unto itself.

    Given that, why not disband the “child protective authorities” in Rotherham? And the police department as well.

    Pass a law saying that the two organizations – the child protective authorities and the police in Rotherham – are found to be operating inimical to the interests of the public and are from this moment disbanded. No further financial payments of any type for any reason will be made to current and former members of both organizations.

    Parliament can to it in a way that it could not be done here. So why not do it? Have all these bureaucrats, whatever alleged investigations they are going to be subject to, simply be fired, and make the firing complete by disbanding the organization.

    That is no sterner outcome than they would experience if they were private organizations. Having lost the confidence of the public, they would lose its patronage and have to close their doors.

    This outcome would only seem extreme to a bureaucrat, not to anybody in the private sector.

    • Gee

      There is but a single police force in the UK – that would disband ALL the police in the entire country.

      Considering their level of ‘competence’ that might not be a great loss

      • EamonnDublin

        “Gee” – Forgive me if I’m wrong, but it is my understanding that each police force in the UK is a separate entity. Ergo, the “West Yorkshire Police”, “The Metropolitan Police” (London) and the “Devon and Cornwall Police”, for examples, have their own Commissioners of Police, etc. Just a small point, but I thought I’d mention it.

  • Damaris Tighe

    Martin Kimber is unable to find anyone willing to ‘recognise’ that files of data were stolen from the whistleblower’s office. Well they’re hardly going to stampede to the confessional are they?

  • Pete

    ” I still feel extremely angry about that.”

    She must not be angry enough. She should name names.

    • Dan Knight

      She might enjoy breathing. ;-)

  • Pete

    senior managers believed “political correctness and cultural sensitivity was more important than shocking criminal behavior,”

    The logical conclusion of multicultural preaching by academia & race hustlers.

    • Bamaguje

      It is the same mentality with the PC crowd everywhere.
      It’s more important not to offend Muslims than speak the truth about daily Muslim atrocities in the name of Allah.

  • Mxpctlk

    Were each of those POS muz hunted down, skinned and publicly hung – I’d shed no tear.

    • PhillipGaley

      Well, can we take comfort that, though—in this world—there be so very little of justice, that is not to say that, justice will never come? Justice will come, and everyone will be pleased, . . .

  • PhillipGaley

    Before a piece of meat becomes riddled with grubs, long before, it stank and was not fit to be cooked and eaten, . . . in thinking of England, . .. .

  • EamonnDublin

    It is my belief that what is considered to be the “traditional” type of British person will before very long decide that he has had enough. It is then that we will see the chaotic results of virtually unfettered immigration and so-called “multiculturalism” (in other words, letting the immigrants tell the natives what to do or else). As they have proven on more than one occasion, the British people are anything but cowards. The time will come, before very long, when they rise up against an evil ideology and throw it overboard – even if it has to boil down to a “numbers” game in the end. In a numbers game such as this one will be, the minority loses. Éamonn, Dublin, Ireland.

    • kikorikid

      The UK has become a Diversity “Tyranny of the Minority”.
      When an ethnic minority can subvert the Laws of the Land it
      is time to Revolt and purge those who wear the Boot of Tyranny.
      That would be the Liberal Elites who are enforcing “Sharia Compliance”
      and Political Correctness as well as the “Pakis” et al that have
      committed heinous crimes against British Society. The time is
      NOW!

    • Drakken

      If you thought the Balkans were brutal, you haven’t seen anything yet, but that day is approaching fast.

      • kikorikid

        By the “Nature of the Beast” they will provide the
        “Precipitating Event(s)”. Some Fables have a basis in reality,
        Yamamoto’s “We will never invade America, There is a Rifleman behind every blade of grass.”. Well, it’s mostly true.

  • http://batman-news.com Kuffar

    The UK is so far over the edge that nothing can save it now. White people are so cowwed by being labeled a racist and offending the muslim scum that they cannot even bring themselves to call a beheading of a soldier in the street in full view of the public by two muslim scumbags, a terrorist act. I can only pray that the piblic gets its fill of this muslim scum that they take on themselves to act, and act hard and fast. As of now, the UK is a lost cause.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      What has happened in Britain that has made people take leave of their senses?

      Has the notion of decency itself disappeared?

  • Bamaguje

    This is the kind of provocation by the dhimmi PC establishment that pushed Breivik over the edge.

  • Bamaguje

    They are not “hiding behind their perverted religion”…
    they are doing exactly what their false religion enjoins them to do.
    So it’s no perversion of Islam.

  • DB1954

    As this article shows, Britain is irretrievably lost.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      They might possibly need some kind of uprising or clear movement in defiance of the status quo. Their leaders are absolutely failing them.

      • kikorikid

        OFM, I read a Post a couple months ago wherein the guy
        stated he was UK Working Class and that it was the WC
        that was getting the shaft in the Islamization of the UK.
        He said the WC will lead the Revolt against the Liberal Elites
        and Islamist.

        • objectivefactsmatter

          It’s certainly possible. I haven’t been there for a while so I’m not sure I can even guess how likely that would be.

          It’s a good sign that people are talking about rejecting the EU.

    • Ilpalazzo

      It’ll be like the last time where the extremities of the Spanish Inquisition were needed to find the Muslims. And the leftist historians will say it’s the attoricities of the Christian Right when the methods are enacted.

  • WhiteHunter

    Having valiantly fought off the Vikings, the Armada, Napoleon, and Hitler, Britain now surrenders without so much as a whimper of protest to a cutthroat enemy who is as dangerous as all those, because he has been invited to invade without the slightest resistance and, like cancer, has metastasized to infect every organ of the British polity and destroy the once-noble nation from within.

    The heirs of Alfred the Great, Elizabeth I, Wellington and Nelson, and Churchill should be ashamed of themselves for their willing complicity in their own destruction as an oozing chancre founded by a madman in the Dark Ages spreads its fetid pus into every pore of the island.

    And the U.S. is already showing the early symptoms of the same disease.

    • Michael Garfinkel

      This kind of moral rot seems much more pronounced in the UK and the continent than here in America.

      It’s quite strange, really, that Britain, Norway, Sweden, in particular, seem to have lost their way so quickly.

      Since there no longer seems to be a political center in these societies, their only hope is the emergence of dominant Right.

      • Michael Garfinkel

        I understand that the Left in Britain, apparently, would see an entire generation of at-risk, low income children subjected to Muslim rape gangs rather than see the Right triumphant.

        This is precisely the reason that the Leftist enablers of these atrocities must be beaten back, and decisively.

        Is there the will in Britain to do so?

    • ebonystone

      But they didn’t manage to fight off the Romans, the Angles and Saxons, and the Normans. Still, they’ve got a pretty good batting average. I hope they can pull it off again.

  • JVR

    The Left hates the white working class.

    • objectivefactsmatter

      The leftist elites hate people. They’re trying to fire up evolution and increase the pace of “progress.”

      • kikorikid

        Evolution is primarily about failure.
        The small minority that is Fit to Survive are
        there mainly due to genetic accident.
        I really don’t think the SJ-Progs are the “Fittest”.

    • kikorikid

      In the UK and the U.S.A.
      In the U.S.A. it is “White working class, Christian”.

  • Pete

    The name Cameron will said with the same disgust by decent people as the name Cromwell is by the Irish.

  • Gloria Stewart

    What moral universe do these social workers live in? What skewed moral compass directs their lives? Has Political Correctness been elevated over the protection of children from gang rape?
    At present the biggest problem the UK has is that their Prime Minister does not understand Islam. He insists on seeing a disconnect between the brutality of Islam and the actions of its followers. The perpetrators of such brutality did not hijack Islam: Islam hijacked them.
    It is ironic that the Mother Country that gave us our love of individual liberty, our language, and our legal system is the furthest down the path to dhimmitude.
    Gloria Stewart

    • objectivefactsmatter

      Gloria Stewart • 21 minutes ago: “What moral universe do these social workers live in?”
      Neo-Marxist social justice. The rapists belong to an oppressed class. No further explanation required for indoctrinated leftists to understand what to do. The rape victims are oppressors…by class affiliation. End of story. For leftists.

  • Cardair

    Are you ready now England?

    • JVR

      no.

  • andrewwhitehead

    So, the British are going to “pass another law”? Funning thing, I though raping 11 year olds was against UK law? Am I wrong? Or has parliament lowered the age of consent to 11? I wouldn’t doubt it, given the number of pedophiles in parliament.
    Those who abuse, or cover up the abuse of children are scum. That the British people are not up in arms over the rape of their children proves the Islamists right when they say “Britain is ours”.

  • Paul Bell

    And you can bet that none of these sanctimonius bureaucrats will be disiplined in any way, when they should be prosecuted as accessories after the fact. Just as guilty as the perps.

    • Dan Knight

      Right. If the rape-o-craps are disciplined it will for not keeping the situation covered up.

  • Dan Knight

    Again, no surprise here, other than the accidental exposure of the Emperor’s New Clothes. Supporting child rape may be old hat in the UK, but it’s already here too. The Left will have its agenda, and defeat its enemies, and only God can help the victims. While one may argue the Left does not support child rape, they support policies certain to cause it, foster it, promote it, and they are not willing to do anything about it unless the perp is a Catholic priest – or a member of some other target for their bullying.

    As for stealing data, this whistle-blower should be glad they didn’t frame her or give her the Deep Six.