GROOMING

ROTHERHAM

Today's Times reveals that South Yorkshire Police had detailed knowledge of how young girls were being groomed, pimped and sexually abused for more than a decade – yet nobody was prosecuted using this information. In the past two years the Times has broken a string of child sexual abuse stories, highlighting how networks of men, usually of south Asian origin, were exploiting underage girls for sex in South Yorkshire and the Midlands. Hundreds of children are believed to have been exploited. The files reveal multiple further cases where whole networks of abusers were identified by name, yet nobody was prosecuted. The documents, which include research papers, case files, intelligence reports and correspondence between the police and social services, reveal that social services were concerned girls in care were being targeted for sexual abuse in Rotherham as long ago as 1996. A report written a decade ago revealed there was 'a great deal of data concerning the activities of these men', including where girls were targeted and how they were ferried around to be used for sex. Yet, a later report noted, the feeling among the police was that if the girls would 'help themselves' by coming forward to give evidence against their abusers there was little the police could do. No successful investigation into groups of sexual offenders in Rotherham was launched until 2009 – and several investigations since have failed.


TELFORD

The Court of Appeal has upheld a ruling that a man accused of child sex abuse offences whose trial collapsed is unfit to stand trial again. Noshad Hussain, 23, was cleared of trafficking a girl, 14, at a trial last year, but the jury was unable to reach a verdict on four charges of engaging in sexual activity with her. The court ruling marks the end of an investigation into a child prostitution ring in Telford. Seven men were jailed last year.

The court rejected an appeal by the Crown Prosecution Service against the judge's ruling that Mr Hussain should not face a retrial. Det Ch Insp Neil Jamieson described many of the girls as "particularly vulnerable". He said they were groomed, receiving presents such as mobile phones to build up a sense of trust. "What they would do is drive them around, they would ply them with alcohol, drugs, buy them things, and it would almost be a boyfriend-girlfriend scenario initially.

"It then spiralled into them being shared with other men. Brothers Ahdel Ali, 25, and Mubarek Ali, 29, who had denied a string of child sex offences, were handed the longest sentences, of 18 years and 14 years respectively. The trial at Worcester Crown Court heard the brothers, of Regent Street, Wellington, sexually abused, trafficked, prostituted or tried to prostitute four Telford teenagers, as young as 13. In sentencing the pair, Judge Patrick Thomas QC said: "You have not shown at any remorse or regret for what you did. Instead you have twisted and turned to avoid justice." Ahdel Ali was found guilty of one charge of rape, 11 charges of sexual activity with a child, three charges of controlling child prostitution, one of inciting child prostitution, a charge of inciting a child to engage in sexual activity and meeting a child after grooming. His brother was convicted of four charges of controlling child prostitution, two of trafficking in the UK for sexual exploitation and a charge of causing child prostitution. The judge said the elder brother had repeatedly sold one girl "for relatively trivial sums" He said Mubarek's motivations went beyond profit and "involved sheer gratuitous pleasure in the power you exercised over these unhappy girls". Former taxi driver Mohammed Islam Choudhrey, 54, of Solway Drive, Sutton Hill, pleaded guilty to paying for sex with a Telford schoolgirl and was jailed for two-and-a-half years at Wolverhampton Crown Court in November. Mohammed Ali Sultan, 26, from Victoria Avenue, Wellington, was jailed for seven years after admitting having sex with two teenage girls, one of whom was 13 years old. Mohammed Younis, 61, of Kingsland, Arleston, was jailed for two-and-a-half years for allowing his flat to be used as a brothel by allowing a man to have sex with a girl who was being controlled as a prostitute. Mahroof Khan, 35, from Caradoc Flats, Wellington, was given a 30-month sentence after admitting having sex with a 15-year-old girl at his home, but walked free from court due to time spent on remand. Tanveer Ahmed, 40, of Urban Gardens in Wellington, was jailed for two-and-a-half years after admitting a charge of controlling a child prostitute. Abdul Rouf, 36, of Kingsland, Arleston, walked free from court after no evidence was offered against him, although the judge ordered that a charge of facilitating child prostitution should lie on file.


OXFORD

Seven members of a sex grooming ring have been convicted of abusing children from Oxford.

An Old Bailey jury heard six girls were drugged and suffered sadistic abuse while aged between 11 and 15. The court heard victims were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to perform sex acts. Some had also been beaten, burned and threatened. Eight men had denied charges including rape, arranging child prostitution and trafficking between 2004 to 2012. The judge told the guilty men: "You have been convicted of the most serious offences and long custodial sentences are inevitable." They are due to be sentenced on 26 June 2013. The court heard that girls were tied up, burnt, suffocated, bitten, scratched and urinated upon. Most of the victims chose to take vast quantities of hard drugs to deaden their senses, particularly when they knew they were being hired out to a large group of men for gang abuse sessions that could go on for days. The victims would return to Oxford bleeding, injured and carrying sexually-transmitted diseases. One of the victims described being plied with hard drugs and forced to have sex with strangers while being filmed at the age of 13. On one occasion she was given so much crack cocaine she could not breathe and was rushed to hospital. Another, who was groomed at the age of 11, said she fell in love with Mohammed Karrar who raped her, beat her with a baseball bat and forced her to have an illegal back-room abortion when she was 12-years-old. She said of her abuse: "At the time I thought it was my choice and it was fine, but years on I can see I never had a choice. I said 'no' but I didn't have a say. "It was literally like a normal relationship but I know now it isn't a normal relationship. I was a child. "He told me he loved me. He said he would take me to Saudi Arabia when I was 15 and marry me. I believed him at the time." The jury at the Old Bailey considered the evidence for two-and-a-half days and returned the following verdicts. Kamar Jamil was found guilty of five counts of rape, two counts of conspiracy to rape and one count of facilitating child prostitution. Akhtar Dogar was found guilty of five counts of rape, three counts of conspiracy to rape, two counts of child prostitution and one count of trafficking. Anjum Dogar was found guilty of four counts of rape, guilty of two counts of child prostitution, two conspiracy to rape and one count of trafficking. Assad Hussain was found not guilty of rape and guilty of two counts of sex with a child. Mohammed Karrar was found guilty of two counts of conspiracy to rape, three counts of rape of a child, one count of using an instrument to procure miscarriage, two counts of trafficking, one count of assault of a child by penetration, one count of child prostitution, one count of rape and one count of supplying a class A drug. Bassam Karrar - was found guilty of two counts of rape, one count of conspiracy to rape a child, one count of rape of a child, one count of child prostitution, one count of trafficking and one count of conspiracy to rape Zeeshan Ahmed - was found guilty of two counts of sex with a child. Mohammed Hussain - was found not guilty of three counts of sex with a child. There was a scuffle in the dock as Ahmed struck out at Mohammed Hussain when he was cleared of the charges against him. The Old Bailey was told the key members of the group used and abused the six victims in a systematic and organised sex trafficking ring over eight years until their arrest in 2012.

Apart from its sheer depravity, what also depresses me most about this case is the widespread refusal to face up to its hard realities. The fact is that the vicious activities of the Oxford ring are bound up with religion and race: religion, because all the perpetrators, though they had different nationalities, were Muslim; and race, because they deliberately targeted vulnerable white girls, whom they appeared to regard as 'easy meat', to use one of their revealing, racist phrases.

Indeed, one of the victims who bravely gave evidence in court told a newspaper afterwards that 'the men exclusively wanted white girls to abuse'. But as so often in fearful, politically correct modern Britain, there is a craven unwillingness to face up to this reality. Commentators and poli-ticians tip-toe around it, hiding behind weasel words. We are told that child sex abuse happens 'in all communities', that white men are really far more likely to be abusers, as has been shown by the fall-out from the Jimmy Savile case. One particularly misguided commentary argued that the predators' religion was an irrelevance, for what really mattered was that most of them worked in the night-time economy as taxi drivers, just as in the Rochdale child sex scandal many of the abusers worked in kebab houses, so they had far more opportunities to target vulnerable girls.

But all this is deluded nonsense. While it is, of course, true that abuse happens in all communities, no amount of obfuscation can hide the pattern that has been exposed in a series of recent chilling scandals, from Rochdale to Oxford, and Telford to Derby. In all these incidents, the abusers were Muslim men, and their targets were under-age white girls. Moreover, reputable studies show that around 26?per cent of those involved in grooming and exploitation rings are Muslims, which is around five times higher than the proportion of Muslims in the adult male population. To pretend that this is not an issue for the Islamic community is to fall into a state of ideological denial. But then part of the reason this scandal happened at all is precisely because of such politically correct thinking. All the agencies of the state, including the police, the social services and the care system, seemed eager to ignore the sickening exploitation that was happening before their eyes. Terrified of accusations of racism, desperate not to undermine the official creed of cultural diversity, they took no action against obvious abuse. Amazingly, the predators seem to have been allowed by local authority managers to come and go from care homes, picking their targets to ply them with drink and drugs before abusing them. You can be sure that if the situation had been reversed, with gangs of tough, young white men preying on vulnerable Muslim girls, the state's agencies would have acted with greater alacrity. Another sign of the cowardly approach to these horrors is the constant reference to the criminals as 'Asians' rather than as 'Muslims'. In this context, Asian is a completely meaningless term. The men were not from China, or India or Sri Lanka or even Bangladesh. They were all from either Pakistan or Eritrea, which is, in fact, in East Africa rather than Asia. There was a telling incident in the trial when it was revealed that one of the thugs heated up some metal to brand a girl, as if she were a cow. 'Now, if you have sex with someone else, he'll know that you belong to me,' said this criminal, highlighting an attitude where women are seen as nothing more than personal property.

The view of some Islamic preachers towards white women can be appalling. They encourage their followers to believe that these women are habitually promiscuous, decadent and sleazy — sins which are made all the worse by the fact that they are kaffurs or non-believers. Their dress code, from mini-skirts to sleeveless tops, is deemed to reflect their impure and immoral outlook. According to this mentality, these white women deserve to be punished for their behaviour by being exploited and degraded.It is telling, though, that they never dared to target Muslim girls from the Oxford area. They knew that they would be sought out by the girls’ families and ostracised by their community. But preying on vulnerable white girls had no such consequences — once again revealing how intimately race and religion are bound up with this case.

The mother of two members of the Oxford child sex abuse gang has blamed the schoolgirls for the ordeal they suffered, saying 'they were having sex at the age of ten instead of playing with toys'.

She defended her sons – Akhtar, 32, and Anjum Dogar, 31 – and claimed they were innocent after they were found guilty of a catalogue of vile offences in May 2013. Mrs Dogar, believed to be called Bashira, accused the police, social services and the girls themselves of being complicit in creating Britain's 'grooming culture'. The two brothers were part of a group of MUSLIM men who groomed girls as young as 11 before giving them drugs and carrying out humiliating attacks, then hiring them out for sex with others. But Mrs Dogar said: 'These girls should be playing with toys. If they start [having sex] at ten, by 15 they are proper ladies.' Speaking from her home in Oxford, the Dogars' mother said they were innocent. She said one of the girls was looking for a boy at a station in London and no one had pressured her into having sex. She added: 'On the news they say the girls went from Oxford to London on the train. Are they not old enough then? Nobody can feel sorry for them unless they're sorry themselves.'


BIRMINGHAM

A policed officer has appeared in court on charges of managing a brothel, money laundering and conspiring to supply Class A drugs. Osman Iqbal, 35, from Birmingham, appeared alongside nine co-defendants at Nuneaton magistrates on Tuesday. The West Midlands Police officer, who is currently suspended from duty, was granted conditional bail to appear for a pre-trial hearing at the Crown Court in Leamington on May 14. Prosecutor Jan Holman said the "large complex" case against the group of seven men and three women stemmed from an 18-month investigation into an alleged operation involving two brothels in central London and car hire companies. Iqbal is charged with managing a brothel, conspiring to transfer criminal property, conspiring to possess and supply a controlled drug, plus five charges of misconduct in public office while being a serving police officer. Talib Hussain, 32, and Atif Hussain, 25, both from Birmingham, have been charged with conspiracy to manage a brothel, conspiracy to money launder and conspiracy to possess Class A drugs, with intent to supply. Asri Hussain, 23, also from Birmingham, and Jennifer Williams, 30, from Cradley Heath, have been charged with conspiracy to manage a brothel and conspiracy to possess Class A drugs, with intent to supply. Ms Sadiff Nazam-Hussain, 34, from Birmingham, is charged with one offence of money laundering, while Nasser Ali, 49, and Ms Raheela Ali, 43, both from Ilford in Essex, have been charged with conspiracy to manage a brothel. Ben Disha, 43, and Fadil Hyseni, 30, both from Harrow, Middlesex, have been charged with conspiracy to manage a brothel.


LONDON

Seven men have been charged with sexual offences against a 14-year-old girl.

The Crown Prosecution Service announced this morning that it had authorised the Metropolitan Police to charge the seven. They all face charges for conspiracy to engage in sexual activity with a child. They also face other sexual offence charges. Desmond Agyei, 23, of Brighton Road, Newham, has also been charged with four counts of rape, one count of attempted rape and trafficking a person within the UK for sexual exploitation. Edward Kofi Edunya, 23, of Artisan Close, Newham, has also been charged with one count of rape. Perry Murray, 24, of Park Grove, Newham, has also been charged with one count of rape. David Sarpong, 23, of Cedar Close, Ilford, has also been charged with two counts of rape and one court of attempted rape. Austin Odisi, 24, of Oxleas, Newham, has also been charged with eight counts of rape. Justin Maynard, 23, of Bluebell Avenue, Newham, has also been charged with five counts of rape. Adedeji Atitebi, 21, of Lonsdale Avenue, Newham, has also been charged with trafficking a person within the UK for sexual exploitation and one count of voyeurism. The charges relate to offences under the Sexual Offences Act 2003 which occurred between May and November 2012.


Nine men from Rochdale have been charged following an investigation into child sexual exploitation.
The charges relate to offences committed separately against one teenage girl in the Rochdale area by different men between 2008 and 2009. Freddy Kendakumana (born 05/05/1986), of Illminster, Rochdale has been charged with three counts of rape, attempted rape and four counts of sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 7 November 2012. Roheez Khan (born 20/12/1985), of Ashfield Road, Rochdale has been charged with ten counts of sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on the 8 November 2012. Chola Chansa (born 25/12/1979), of Illminster, Rochdale has been charged with two counts of sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 9 November 2012. Ali Asghar Hussain Shah (born 03/06/1973), of Lyefield Walk, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 22 November 2012. Anjam Masood (born 09/02/1982), of Marne Crescent, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 21 November 2012. Asrar Haider (born 27/01/1974) of Chamber House Drive, Castleton, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 21 November 2012. Abdul Huk (born 28/05/1976), of Ouldfield Close, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 23 November 2012. Mohammed Rafiq (born 24/12/1980), of Allington, Freehold, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity and inciting sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 5 December 2012. Mohammed Ali (born 22/05/1985), of Exbury, Rochdale has been charged with sexual activity with a child under 16. He has been bailed to appear at Bury Magistrates’ Court on 6 December 2012.


An African migrant who lured a vulnerable schoolgirl to a house for sex cannot be deported – because he is a member of a  ‘persecuted tribe’. Jumaa Kater Saleh, 24, was convicted as part of a predatory sex gang for the ‘deliberate, targeted abuse of a young and vulnerable girl’, who was aged 13 at the time. But he was allowed to remain in  Britain under human rights law because he faced mistreatment if sent back  to Sudan.


Jalal Dawed (born 25/3/1992), is wanted for questioning in connection with the abduction of a child after a 16-year-old girl was taken to an address in Bolton and sexually assaulted on 25 April 2013.

He has links to Blackpool, Preston and Bolton. He is possibly driving a silver Audi convertible and works somewhere in the Manchester area as a mechanic.


[Note: Scotland's Muslim population is a mere 42,600! They sure don't wait long to emulate their criminal prophet, Mohammed. Take note how the M-word has been left out from the report. TMI]
SCOTTISH police have smashed two "large scale" child sex networks involving a "significant proportion" of ethnic minority offenders. Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham revealed the crackdown on child sex networks in Scotland. Further details cannot be disclosed for legal reasons as the cases are still to come to court, however the investigations contain chilling echoes of high- profile prosecutions south of the Border. In another, utterly appalling example of child abuse, two 13-year-old Scots girls were groomed and raped by a network of "numerous" paedophiles across Britain. This operation resulted in 37 arrests and the identification of 108 further potential victims and perpetrators. Again, all of those involved are still awaiting trial. The details of the crackdown were revealed by Assistant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham to a Holyrood inquiry into the scale of child abuse. Concern is growing that the problem has been grossly underestimated for years, with police and prosecutors failing to take victims seriously. There are groups of foreign nationals involved in this and maybe respect for women isn't seen as being a high priority in their country of origin. (A police source). Senior officers also fear the involvement of ethnic minority offenders in child sexual exploitation (CSE) will lead to "significant community tension". Mr Graham said: "In two large scale CSE investigations in Scotland a significant proportion of the identified perpetrators were from ethnic minority communities. It is not possible to draw conclusions from this relatively small dataset and more accurate data and wider research is required.