Victims of Pakistani child rape grooming gangs have joined Nigel Farage and Reform UK to call for a national public inquiry into the abuse of girls in the UK and the authorities' failure to protect them.
Author Elizabeth Harper snatchIn it, she details her own abuse at the hands of the Rotherham child rape ring in the early 2000s, and how South Yorkshire Police, local authorities and social care authorities investigated the sexual exploitation of her and others by men of Pakistani descent. He accused her of ignoring him. area.
Speaking before Reform UK's North West England conference in Chester on Saturday, Mr Harper added his voice to the chorus calling for the government to finally hold a national public inquiry into the scandal.
“We need good data on the motives of the perpetrators and drivers involved,” she says. “We need data on the ethnicity of these perpetrators, and we need action and change. This is not just for people like me, but for children who may be suffering now and in the future. It is required.”
Harper told the audience that the abuse began when she was 14 years old, when she was lured to a facility where she was confined for 10 weeks and sexually abused by a group of Pakistani men. He said during this time South Yorkshire Police were “fully aware” of what was going on and had been given “high-level intelligence” about the presence of grooming gangs in the area “for at least seven years”. said.
The victim said that during the terrifying ordeal, local police not only refused to arrest her abuser, but even arrested her father who tried to save her.
“I often think about how awful it must have been that the only adult responsible for my abuse at the time was my father, and the only person who was trying to save me. “It lasted four-and-a-half years, under the watchful eye of the people who needed to protect me, the people who needed to protect me,” she said.
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Mr Farage praised Mr Harper's “bravery” for coming forward and describing his abuse.
“It beggars belief that the Prime Minister has denied brave victims like Elizabeth Harper the investigation this country needs to stop this type of race-based sexual abuse of young children. That's the idea,” he said.
While the left-wing Labor government insists that previous local or general sexual abuse investigations are sufficient, Mr Farage has called for an intensive investigation into Pakistani gangs, particularly the young white girls they sexually abuse. He insisted that an investigation into the “rifle shooting'' was necessary.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer insisted that such an investigation would take up to seven years to complete, and this week asked his own party's MPs, many of whom were from constituencies where the grooming gang's abuse took place, to issue a national Forced them to vote against a public inquiry.
But the reformist leader said the inquiry could be completed within nine months and that if the government failed to launch a public inquiry by the end of the month, the party would launch and fund an independent inquiry.
The Labor government is under increasing pressure to end its intransigence. For example, Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham, one of the country's top Labor politicians, said: This week, I joined the call for an investigation.
The public also overwhelmingly supports a national investigation. YouGov investigation A poll this week found that 76 per cent of the public supports an investigation into gang grooming, with only 13 per cent opposed.
