Thursday, 7 April 2011
From the Times today:

Charlene Downes and her friends called it “Paki Alley”. When they were hungry, wanted cigarettes or alcohol, or needed top-up credit for their mobile phones, they knew where to go because you could find almost anything down the alleyway. For a price.

What Lancashire Constabulary uncovered when Charlene went missing from home in 2003, however, was almost a factory production line of child abuse involving the systematic grooming and sexual exploitation of dozens of young girls by a closely linked group of men.

The force’s initial “problem scan” identified more than 60 local girls, the youngest aged 11 but most aged from 13 to 15, as being “exposed and vulnerable” to men operating from a cluster of “honey-pot” locations in the town centre, all takeaway food premises.


The ironically named Awaken:

Children, many from troubled homes or in the care system, had been befriended by older men who flattered their desire to be treated as adults, showering them with gifts and affection before using them for sex both inside and outside the takeaway outlets.

The scale of the criminality was so disturbing that one of Britain’s first multi-agency child sexual exploitation projects, Awaken, was swiftly established in Blackpool to target offenders and offer support to vulnerable girls.


Ooh, but we can't tell the truth about it!

A decision seems to have been taken at an early stage that one aspect of the abuse made the police findings too sensitive to be revealed publicly. In 2007, an unpublished report by police and local authority representatives from Awaken stated: “Analysis showed that in relation to the takeaways, non-white adult males working alone or within friendship groups were principally perpetrating the exploitation.”

A former senior Lancashire police officer cites “concerns about upsetting community cohesion” to explain the long-standing reluctance to acknowledge publicly what was a very specific offender profile in a town where 96 per cent of the population were white.


This line is prominent in almost every story about the Muslim rape gangs:

Most child-sex offenders in Britain are white males, usually acting alone.


Why do they constantly emphasise this? The population is still 90% white. It's hardly surprising that the majority of sex offenders are white. When it comes to group rape, however, the perpetrators are overwhelmingly members of ethnic minorities:

A totally different picture emerged from cases where there were multiple defendants preying on girls aged from 12 to 15, whom they met in town centres, on street corners, inside shopping malls, outside school gates or at bus and rail stations.

In 17 such court cases since 1997, 16 of them from towns or cities in Yorkshire or Lancashire, a total of 56 men have been convicted of crimes including child abduction, indecent assault and rape. Of those 56, 50 were Muslims and most were men of Pakistani heritage.

Across other areas of northern England and the Midlands, groups of Iraqi Kurds and refugees from Afghanistan have been identified by childcare specialists as perpetrators of similar collective sexual exploitation.

In Blackpool, many of the owners and workers in 11 “honey-pot” food premises identified by police were of Middle Eastern origin.

Charlene knew several of them. Her sad story was of a child whose home life was so chaotic that the night-time streets, no matter how dangerous, held the promise of escape, excitement and companionship.


The Times spoke with a girl who knew Charlene:

A young woman who knew Charlene, and whose identity The Times has agreed to protect, was 13 when she first came into contact with several of Blackpool’s takeaway workers. She has not forgotten the initial allure.

“They were older than you and you thought they were your friends. It all seemed so glamorous and exciting and young girls were drawn into it: the flash cars, the money, the alcohol, free food, sometimes drugs.”

She named two men in particular. Both are still closely linked to separate food outlets in the town. One “was married with kids, had a really young English girlfriend on the side but still chased after other young girls.

“He was a filthy old man. He used to offer me drugs because he said they would loosen me up. He made my flesh crawl.”

The other man “would say some awful things about white girls” yet was happy to proposition “literally every pretty young girl who’d hit puberty that came into his shop.
“He had no respect for us, the way we dressed, the way we drank, how forward we were. It was as though white girls were asking for it. He’d say that all English girls were slags, unlike Muslim women who wore the hijab and walked five steps behind their husband.”

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