UK Conservative Leader Kemi Badenoch Demands National Inquiry Into Rape Gangs, Cites Thousands Of British Girls Abused By Muslim Men, Official Collusion
Nigerian-born Kemi Badenoch, leader of the British opposition Conservative Party, has called for full inquiry to expose those who turned a blind eye to the grooming gangs in the UK, responsible for raping thousands of girls.
Badenoch, in an article, lamented that “Britain has witnessed the mass grooming of thousands of the most vulnerable white working-class girls – children – by gangs of men, many of Pakistani heritage”.
“This was rape on an industrial scale,” she said.
She added that “shockingly, it was a scandal made possible by the collusion and cover-ups of officials, the police and politicians who were more concerned about community relations than about victims and their families”.
She said, “The fact that perpetrators of this sexual violence appeared to have deliberately picked victims because they were white – and not from their own community or religious background – must not be ignored.
“Previous inquiries have failed to examine this. It’s for society and the State to address the issue, no matter how uncomfortable it may be.
“The testimonies of the victims are hard to read. Girls being forced into barbaric sexual acts. Raped by multiple men at the same time or one after the other. Punished by grotesque sexual violence when they resisted.
“Children were identified as targets because of their backgrounds and experienced years of systematic abuse from adult men whose communities in some cases even helped protect them.
“Thousands of girls’ lives have been damaged or destroyed. Worse still, this was perpetrated not in one rotten borough by a few rotten individuals, but across the nation.
“It is just as disturbing to read accounts of collusion between officials and police – people entrusted with protecting the public – to keep the scandal under wraps, and in some cases even to allow the abuse to continue.”
She lamented reading “a shocking example of social workers attending a ‘Nikah’, an Islamic wedding ceremony, between an abuser and his victim” from court evidence.
Narrating other cases, she mentioned how a father was arrested for trying to retrieve his daughter from “rape dens”.
She said, “Of councils and a police chief collaborating to keep the extent of the child rape scandal out of the headlines for fear of inflaming community relations or being called racist. And of academics and charity workers drafting obfuscatory reports to conceal the true scale of the problem. This can never be allowed to happen again.”
Badenoch, however, recognized the efforts of a “number of heroes” who fought “a lonely battle against not only a conspiracy of silence but active hostility that victims faced from officialdom”.
She said, “Failing councils were taken over, like Rotherham in 2015. Grooming gang members were prosecuted.
“The Grooming Gang TaskForce, launched in April 2023, made over 500 arrests in its first year.
“But we still need to know the extent to which institutions like the police, prosecutors, local government and social services are compromised by wrong-headed political correctness, and even self-interest.
“Only then can we have any hope of upholding our laws and culture, and preventing this scale of abuse ever again.
“That is why I have called for a full national inquiry into the rape gangs scandal. It must have the powers needed to go further than local inquiries have done.”
“The inquiry I want to see should start by considering the likely racial or religious motivation of these crimes,” she said.
“It should identify all of the institutions and bodies that failed. It should also identify those individuals who facilitated or ignored these crimes so they can be removed from their roles.”
According to her, no lenience should be shown to those “who rape and exploit children, nor can we tolerate those who protect predators”
