UNITED KINGDOM
Daily Mail
Government inquiry into historic child sex abuse will now probe Rotherham Asian sex gang scandal as well as claims of Westminster cover-ups
The systematic and unfettered sexual abuse of 1,400 young girls in Rotherham is to be investigated alongside the alleged Westminster VIP paedophile ring, the new chair of the historical child abuse inquiry said today.
New Zealand High Court judge Lowell Goddard, who was appointed by Theresa May yesterday, said lessons must be learned from the 16-year scandal that has engulfed Rotherham.
Yesterday a criminal investigation was launched after a damning report found Rotherham Council is ‘not fit for purpose’ and still ‘in denial’ about girls as young as 11 being left to be abused by mainly Asian men between 1997 and 2013.
The fear of being branded racist turned the issue of child grooming by Pakistani men into a taboo subject which paralysed the council and police into inaction, according to the report.
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