A landmark report into “grooming gangs” that sexually exploited mostly white, working-class British girls on an industrial scale has omitted any reference to the Islamist links or motivations of the overwhelmingly Muslim perpetrators.
While identifying clear evidence of disproportionately “over-representation among suspects of Asian and Pakistani-heritage men,” the National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published by the Home Office on June 16, focuses on the offenders’ ethnicity rather than on their religion.
