What the BBC don't tell you about the 14-year-old who was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men...

The BBC's report on the '14-year-old (girl who) was forced into prostitution and sexually abused by a series of men after going missing from her home in Greater Manchester.' seems to be shy of one piece of information. In fact it was only after I saw the names of the perpetrators on the web that it clicked that all nine men were Muslims. This set me thinking, surely I had read of such instances of non-Muslim girls being so treated by Muslim men before and if I had surely the BBC had as well.

So I looked around and found this blog post from January this year that included reports from The Times

'"A hidden world in which Asian men “groom” young white girls for sex has been exposed with the jailing yesterday of two men for child-abuse offences. Zulfqar Hussain, 46, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from east Lancashire, were each jailed for five years and eight months after exploiting two girls aged under 16 by plying them with alcohol and drugs before having sex with them.'

The Times again

'"Like other mothers in the North West area, Jackie believes the ethnicity of her daughter’s abusers – predominantly Asian – makes the subject more difficult to tackle. She said: “They are committing a crime; it doesn’t matter what colour or religion they are. People are scared it will start a race riot but it is this perception of racism that is putting up a barrier. It is so frustrating. Why should it be swept under the carpet? This is destroying people’s lives. They need prosecuting.”It started with some new female friends – Asian girls whom Mandy got to know. Within a year, she had accelerated through the pattern of truancy and drug-taking into full-scale sexual exploitation.

“She began wearing low-cut tops, and horrible heavy make-up,” Jackie recalled.
Then came the drugs. “She would come home from school, her eyes rolling, pupils dilated.”
The socialising took place in the park, the railway station, the street corner. Mandy, once a normal chatty schoolgirl, became a stranger whom her mother would glimpse circling the local shopping centre, accompanied by more than a dozen Asian boys aged from 14 into their twenties.'

There are also many other stories, unfortunately only reported on BNP blogs as well as the horrific story of Charlene Downes that you can read about at The Times.

You can also read from 2005 how this is not a new phenomenon but it is one that the media suppress the telling of or are suppressed from telling:

'LONDON (Reuters) - A British television documentary which shows Asian men grooming under-age white girls for sex has been shelved because of fears it could incite racial violence ahead of elections, Channel 4 said Friday. The broadcaster said the decision to pull "Edge of the City" was taken after discussions with police.

Bradford, the northern city where the program was filmed, was rocked in 2001 by race riots between Asians and whites. "The police feared that the timing of the broadcast would increase community tensions in Bradford...with the risk that it would lead to public disorder," the broadcaster said in a statement. The program, which was to have been screened earlier this week, explores what it calls an explosion of child abuse whereby Asian men in the city have been targeting young girls for sex -- one as young as 11 -- by plying them with drugs.

The Muslim Political Affairs Committee (MPAC) is crowing:
Success: ‘Edge of the City’ Stopped. It was a last minute rush to get this biased documentary postponed, but we did it. MPACUK readers rushed to register their dismay at linking race with paedophiles; the police registered their concern by stating that it could cause racial tensions and MPAC contacted 5 MPs and a Lord to ask them to raise this with Channel 4. Here is MPAC’s story on what we did, who we talked to and the one guy who we got to. This is why lobbying works and why Muslims need to know their MPs.'

The 'Edge of the City' documentary was shown in August 2004 and the BBC felt the need to review it and explain how it was misleading as

'The most controversial of these witnesses authorities and parents trying to stop groups of young men who are grooming girls as young as 11 for sex.

Although none of the officials in the film raise race as the issue in these predatory relationships, the filmmakers make it perfectly clear that the abusers are predominantly Asian, and all of the abused girls are white.

This is the controversy at the heart of the film which cries out for explanation. But instead, the story is shoe-horned into 90 minutes, along with those of an elderly man fighting for independence, a troubled couple dealing with disability and alcoholism and a trainee social worker's determination to help a serial teenager offender.

So given the unprecedented access to Bradford social services, did the filmmakers use it responsibly?

Or did they produce a film that, as its critics would have it, provided ammunition to racists?

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Critics of Edge of the City will accuse the filmmakers of being, at best, naive in how they have incorporated race into the story.

Two senior social workers and one police officer detail the complex methods of sexual grooming. None of these professionals suggests that race, faith or ethnicity is a factor. They say it's down to power, misogyny and the self-esteem of the girls who believe the lies of men who shower them with gifts.

So if race has been a factor in Bradford and Keighley - and the interviewed mothers clearly believe it is - the film neither offers a theory nor explanation as to why this should be the case. '

Channel 4 seem less restricted by political correctness/need to appease Islam in its description:

'An explosive area of child abuse called 'grooming' is increasingly worrying these social workers. Asian men have been targeting young white girls - one as young as 11 - for a life of sexual and drug abuse. The programme follows the stories of two mothers who are desperately trying to track down information on the groomers.'

Of course you could always decide for yourself...
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And here is a BBC video on the same subject...'The Panorama show, Teenage Sex for Sale,' will look at the way police and community groups have tried to combat young girls being forced into selling themselves after being groomed by older men.

The problem of sexual grooming was first highlighted by the Lancashire Telegraph in 2006, when we launched our Keep Them Safe Campaign.

It aims to raise awareness of the problem of local girls who are befriended by predominantly Asian groups of men (UK codewrod for "muslim"), who shower them with gifts and attention then give the youngsters drink and drugs. The teens are then forced to perform sex acts in return - sometimes with more than 10 men a night.

The documentary features the story of Zulfar Hussain, 46, from Blackburn, and Qaiser Naveed, 32, from Burnley. The pair were jailed in August 2007 for five years and eight months for "exploiting" vulnerable under-16s, having taken girls away from the legal control of social services. It also looks at the work being done by Blackburn's Engage team - a group formed by the police, council, the Lancashire Safeguarding Children's board and other young people's organisations.
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