Unspeakable Predators

In Britain a 15-year-old girl informed police she had been raped.  She provided DNA evidence from her attackers.  But prosecutors made the decision they would not have police charge the man.  She kept on suffering abuse at his hands.  She was driven to apartments and houses in the greater Manchester area  where she would be raped by up to five men a night, four or five days a week.


They had selected her because she was white, vulnerable and underage.  She became pregnant.  And her teachers began to notice and be concerned by the number of Asian men who would pick her up from school.  They then contacted police, who finally reacted.  Officers could have dealt with the case "better than we did", acknowledged Assistant chief Constable Steve Heywood.


"At the time we did what we thought was best", he claimed, excusing their lack of action on the girl's behalf.  "We have learned a lot of lessons", he said, denying that the girl's complaints had been "brushed under the carpet", as a result of politically-correct attitudes that prevailed that would label them as racist if they had acted.


Now, Kabeer Hassan, Abdul Azia, Abdul Rauf, Mohammed Sajid, Adil Khan, Abdul Qayyum, Mohammed Amin, Hamid Safi and a 59-year-old known only as Defendant X for legal reasons have been found guilty of running a child exploitation ring.  All of the men but one who is of Afghan origin, are of Pakistani origin, now British residents.


They preyed on under-age white girls in north-western England.  And they now represent the first gang to be convicted of sex trafficking.  They convinced one of their victims to recruit other girls whom they would drive to houses around the north of England.  The number of victims are held to be around 50; vulnerable girls whom they abused for sex trafficking.


One 13-year-old girl who had become pregnant had an abortion, while another young girl was raped by 20 men in one night.  Complaints to social workers and the police were ignored, the court heard, because they were "petrified of being called racist", according to Ann Cryer, a former Labour MP. 

She had campaigned to expose Asian sex gangs, and said the girls had been "betrayed", condemned to "untold misery" by police and social services. "This is an absolute scandal.  They were petrified of being called racist and so reverted to the default of political correctness."


Greater Manchester Police and the Crown Prosecution Service apologized that they had failed to bring the case of the first victim to trial following her original appeal for rescue in 2008.  The men aged between 22 and 59, were found guilty at Liverpool Crown Court of abusing vulnerable teens after plying them with alcohol and small amounts of money.