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Elon Musk has reopened a national scandal over gangs of men who groom, assault and molest girls across England.
Dozens of messages posted on the X platform last week ranged from including court transcripts to calling Sir Keir Starmer “an accomplice in the rape of Britain”.
They represent Recent intervention A tech billionaire working in the incoming administration of Donald Trump to UK affairs.
What was the scandal?
Musk claims he deserves it. At X, “hundreds of thousands” of “little English girls” were targeted for gang-rape and murder.
It’s unclear what Musk is basing his claim on. 2014 Jay reported A conservative estimate, led by Professor Alexis Jay in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, is that 1,400 children were targeted between 1997 and 2013. Some are as young as 11 years old. Country.
Although the first prosecution of roadside care began in 2010, the number of known victims has run into the thousands.
Was it an official cover?
Evidence of gangs operating in various towns and cities is slowly emerging – often from court cases and then inquiries – and the pattern is often the same.
Local police forces and social services have been repeatedly criticized for failing victims, not prioritizing such crimes, refusing to believe the children or blaming them.
Children at risk were thought to have brought their problems on themselves after being deprived of gifts and attention.
As a result, many cases are either not investigated or referred to the Crown Prosecution Service.
in RochdaleTwo whistleblowers – former detective Maggie Oliver and former social worker Sarah Rowbottom – have repeatedly warned that they saw what was happening despite agencies raising the alarm.
Agencies, including in Rotherham, have been criticized for not taking action in relation to a group of British-Pakistani men for fear of appearing racist.
An inquiry into care in Oldham, Greater Manchester. Published in 2022, He specifically noted the alleged “cover-up”.
While he found the claims unsubstantiated, he identified several lapses in protection by local agencies.
What was Starmer’s role?
Starmer joined the Crown Prosecution Service in 2010. It was in 2008 and 2013, when the scandal first broke.
“Starmer must go and stand trial as an accomplice to the worst mass crime in British history,” Musk wrote on X this week.
Allegations that Starmer bears some responsibility for the failure to bring perpetrators to justice, particularly stemming from the 2009 Rochdale case where the perpetrators were not prosecuted. Lawyers believed that the victim would not come as honest and faithful.
Starmer had been director of public prosecutions for nine months when the decision was made. There is no evidence that he was not made aware of the details of the case at the time.
In the year In 2011, Nazir Afzal, the new Attorney General of North West England, overturned the 2009 decision, and nine people were eventually convicted.
Afzal went on to say, “The only way we can make this case is if these victims were killed in 2010. It is an admission that we were rejected when you first complained in 2008.
He added: “We publicly admitted we were wrong earlier and Keir was 100 per cent behind the decision.”
He later added: “Keir left in 2013, with the CPS struggling to handle sexual assault cases, which had the highest conviction rate in our history. This would not have been possible without the support, resources and protection I received from CAIR, when it was easy to give up.
Starmer In 2013, CPS procedures and guidelines on how to deal with prosecutors were revised to ensure that young victims are not dismissed in the future with views believed to damage their credibility.
Should there be a government-led national inquiry?
Since the first cases of street care teams were trialled 15 years ago, a number of independent local inquiries have been held into how they managed to operate under the noses of the authorities, including in Rochdale, Manchester, Rotherham and Telford.
Last week, Jess Phillips, the UK Minister for Safeguarding Women and Girls and Violence, revealed that she had rejected Oldham Council’s call for a national inquiry into fostering groups in the town. As had happened in Rotherham and Telford, she said, the council would prefer a local inquiry.
At the national level Independent inquiry into child sexual abuseIn the year Launched in 2015, it included a thorough examination of how local agencies responded to such criminal networks.
None of the recommendations have been implemented so far.
Health Secretary Wes Streeting said on Sunday the government was not conducting a national inquiry “because there is already a national inquiry”, adding: “Victims should be fully implemented today, tomorrow, next week. . . recommendations”.
The inspector general’s reports on how the case was handled by individual forces were also critical.
“It challenges the idea that national inquiries are always better,” said Ella Cockbain, associate professor of criminology at University College London.
Why is Tommy Robinson in prison?
Alongside posts about the grooming scandal, Musk has repeatedly raised the plight of imprisoned right-wing activist Tommy Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.
Why is Tommy Robinson in prison alone for telling the truth? Musk wrote on X on Thursday, saying that “he must be freed and the people who covered up this horrible act take his place in his room.”
The comment suggested that he thought Robinson was arrested because of his public statements about conservative groups.
Robinson, who has other criminal convictions, was jailed late last year after pleading guilty to contempt of court for making defamatory and false allegations against a Syrian refugee in a documentary.
Reform UK leader Nigel Farage said in an interview over the weekend that Robinson would blame Musk for lying in court rather than exposing criminal gangs.
In response, Musk wrote on X on Sunday morning: “I know he’s in jail for contempt of court. . . But there is no reason for such long imprisonment or solitary confinement!”
