Police investigate child abuse in northern town
A major investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of young white girls by predominantly Asian men has been launched by police and childcare agencies.
So far detectives in Oldham, Greater Manchester, have arrested 20 men, five of whom have been charged with offences that include abduction and rape. However, police expect other suspects to be held in the coming weeks.
Both Oldham Council and Greater Manchester Police have emphasised that they have discovered no evidence of an organised paedophile ring.
The phenomenon appears to be largely cultural, with mainly young Asian men allegedly preying on vulnerable girls they meet in and around the town centre.
Police suspect the victims – some of them as young as 12, the rest up to the age of 17 – are being groomed over a period of months and sometimes years.
In some cases the men allegedly give them such presents as mobile phones, money and clothes .
The girls often regard the men as their boyfriends. However, as the relationship develops some
of the abusers allegedly coerce them into having sex .
Police sources say that although both the abusers and their victims come from a variety of ethnic groups, the phenomenon is founded within Oldham’s Pakistani community. [Read as MOSLEM]
With Pakistani girls generally determined to remain virgins until they are married, young men in the community have tended to seek out white girls for sex. ["UNCOVERED MEAT" or Infidel Whores, does the name or title really matter??? Moslems know they can do it to infidel whores and they do it...Islam, the religion of peace and love for mankind...Baaaaaaaaahhhh ! ! ! ]
"We often find that these men are smartly dressed and running around in expensive cars,” said a police source. “It tends to be a lot easier them to impress the girls they’re looking for than unemployed white lads with no money.”
Ruth Baldwin, director of the local council’s directorate for children, young people and families, refused to give details of the ethnic mix, claiming that to do so might prejudice future trials. But she insisted that both abusers and their victims were from a variety of backgrounds.
The common thread among the girls was that they had low self-esteem and felt in need of love and affection.
Some have been abused at a time they were in local authority care.
Mrs Baldwin said the abusers were in their twenties, thirties, forties and, in one case, “beyond”. Police insist that the majority are at the younger end of the spectrum.
The catalyst for the investigation was the claims by four girls earlier this year that they had been abused.
As many as 20 girls - some as young as 12 - are thought to have been abused by older men who buy them gifts and pose as their "boyfriends", before turning the relationship sexual.
More than 20 people have already been arrested, and five people have been charged with offences including abduction and rape.
Greater Manchester Police have described the abuse as a major problem but say they have no evidence that it is the work of an organised paedophile ring.
The abusers typically prey on girls they do not know, approaching them in public places. They offer gifts of mobile phones and electronic gadgets to gain their victims' trust, before plying them with drink and drugs.
It is alleged that the girls - a small number of whom are in local authority care - end up being physically harmed or forced into sex.
The joint inquiry is being carried out by police, Oldham council, Oldham Primary Care Trust and the charity Barnardos.
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Sunday, December 24, 2006
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