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The Rotherham MP has spent over a decade campaigning against child sex abuse by grooming gangs, but has been vilified by some on the left. She tells Alice Thomson of her determination for justice

Sarah Champion did not go into politics to wage war against child sex abuse rings or become a voice for vulnerable teenage girls preyed on by gangs of men of predominantly Pakistani origin who groomed, trafficked and raped them. When she became the Labour MP for Rotherham she did not know they existed.

“I had been running the local children’s hospice as CEO when I became an MP in 2012 and I remember reading an article about this 15-year-old Rotherham girl who had a baby by any of three different men and was seen as a little scrubber, and I thought that’s not right. Then a girl was found dead in a river, and they said she’d gone mad. Finally, a young white girl came to us with a poorly baby and her boyfriend was a much older Asian man; the relationship seemed odd.”

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.

The Casey report is right to refer to ‘Pakistani’ men as overrepresented in these crimes.

One of the many refreshing things about Louise Casey’s 197-page national audit into grooming gangs is that it does not shirk from uncomfortable questions about the ethnicity of many of the perpetrators. The report, published earlier this week, refers to men of ‘Pakistani’ origin being overrepresented in grooming gangs a total of 28 times. Here Casey is simply relaying what has been clear to most people for years, yet has nevertheless been obscured by the authorities, the media and academia.

How many times have we run into apologists who insist that Islam be recognized as a race?

That’s why I refer to Muslim Rape Gangs.

The rape gang scandal is an apocalypse for Great Britain, in the etymological sense of the word: an unveiling that reveals the truth of their condition. In ages past, clear-eyed people would have seen the sexual subjugation of women by foreigners as the act of conquerors.

In today’s Britain, though, the ruling class—politicians of both the Conservative and Labour parties, police, local administrators, and most of the media—chose to turn a blind eye to foreigners among them carrying out mass rapes of English girls. They did this, as the Baroness Casey report indicates, in the service of multiculturalism and their liberal ideals.

Victims of grooming gangs are being denied compensation on the basis of criminal convictions connected to their abuse, even though campaigners say the prosecutions were wrongly brought.

Sarah Champion, the MP for Rotherham, where the grooming scandal was exposed, said it was a “grave injustice” that girls who had been raped, abused and exploited were being refused compensation by the state.

The State enjoys torturing these girls.

In January, Sir Keir Starmer accused opposition MPs expressing concern over grooming gangs of “amplifying what the far-Right is saying” and “jumping on a bandwagon”. Having fought tooth and nail against any public inquiry into the scandal for months, he now appears to have conceded they were right all along, announcing that he has accepted Baroness Louise Casey’s recommendation of a full statutory inquiry.

So that’s that. Judged by his own words, the Prime Minister is jumping on a far-Right bandwagon. It demonstrates how absurd his reflexive statement was, but it also illustrates exactly how this scandal was permitted to go on for so long: an instinctive urge to protect the narrative of a cohesive multicultural nation built through immigration, with a few far-Right malcontents, rather than a deeply divided society where neutral enforcement of the law could lead to chaos on the streets.