Groomed: A National Scandal review – it is staggering to hear these children called ‘promiscuous’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/30/groomed-a-national-scandal-review-anna-hall-channel-4
Posted by GreatBritishHedgehog
Groomed: A National Scandal review – it is staggering to hear these children called ‘promiscuous’
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2025/apr/30/groomed-a-national-scandal-review-anna-hall-channel-4
Posted by GreatBritishHedgehog
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Now that it’s been on TV maybe Keir can do something about it
I always felt that the grooming gangs scandal leant very heavily on the “We couldn’t stop them because they were muslims!” angle so they could blame wokeness or whatever rather than the fact that they didn’t give a shit about these vulnerable girls.
Thought it was interesting there was a recent victim interviewed. Being abused as recently as 2022 and said she knows of 3 girls still being abused.
Also seems the creator had a bone to pick.
She specifically mentions that the police told her not to air her original documentary in 2004 due to ‘community intentions’ and she seems to think it was politically motivated because there were elections on and the BNP were doing well in polls. The documentary ended up airing after the elections.
So for her to release this documentary on the eve of local elections seems intentional.
My brother is a psychiatrist and he said so many of his female patients have history of sexual abuse and the authorities not believing them. It’s disgusting.
Its still going on in towns in the north of England and primarily being done by we all know who but can not say. My younger brothers friend had to stay at our house one night as her court date was the next day and they threatened her beyond belief not that the police cared but if she testified they would cut her up all kinds of sick shit she was brave enough to testify and they all ended up in prison, but for the most part its ignored.
Growing up in my area was rough, we knew girls giving head for cigarettes, running train on them in garden sheds. There use to be a working girl who let us go round to the flat and she would give us strip dances for drink and weed. We we’re 15 she was like 25.
Where i grew up being 15 felt like being 25. By the time i was legally allowed to drink i was already bored of my local night clubs i’d gone out that much. I was still in high school and in a relationship with a woman who had a kid and was 23.
I was smoking drinking and taking pills then heading off to college class next day still wired. I lost my virginity at 13 and was having regular casual sex at 15. My first meaningful long term relationship was from 15-18 she was 17 when we met.
As the article says ‘its almost always white girls’. Yes that’s because of the culture we have here in the UK. The freedom of our children is a great thing but it also invites experiences like me who become sexually active very young. I’ve had a long and fruitful love life and there wasn’t much i hadn’t tried by 21. I
This was all normal stuff for us. We we’re all doing the same things and it never seems a grooming situation. Just a bunch of people fucking and doing drugs. As a Young boy it was socially acceptable for me to be having sex at 14 but for some reason we see it as always a victim when its a girl. Girls like sex and drugs too.
There’s a lot of ethnicity talk about grooming gangs but I was targeted in the early 00s between ages 13-15 for CSE and it was 30-45 year old white men from all economic backgrounds.
The main mind games they’d play is praising maturity in one breath and then denigrating you for being ‘spoiled goods’ (that they spoiled) in the next and that a teenager who had sex early would not be believed if they spoke up because that was apparently shameful. A few would brag about being with underage teens openly to their friends and not once did their friends challenge them about it. Neurodiverse girls were prime target fodder as they were often isolated, not aware of social norms and extreme people pleasers.
I sincerely hope people are better at recognising the signs today but this was just a reminder that predators can come from anywhere.
Every institution in Britain is corrupt and full of pedophiles and those willing to cover for them
Right at the start it was said by many that both the Police and Social Services failed these girls as they treated them like shit purely because of their background.
Had any of these girls come from a middle class background they would of been listened to and taken care off, instead because they came from poor working class background neither the Police or Social Services wanted anything to do with them
Having grown up in one of the affected areas in the 2000s/2010s, it was always about the vulnerability of the girls in question, not some weird race targeting. We had probably about equal proportions of adult white and South Asian men approaching us as children, but the latter were more likely to be complete strangers and the approaches were more socially stigmatised (if only for the inter-race element).
When girls were “dating” (groomed by) adult men, they were more likely to be shamed for their “promiscuity” than viewed as victims, by both children and adults. Adults would openly laugh off or eyeroll adult men trying it on with us, but they were far more likely to do that if they were acquaintance / friends (and therefore more likely to be white).
All that to say, that while the spotlight has been on “Asian grooming gangs”, they real issue was always the adultification of poor girls and implicit acceptance of sexual offending towards them, and same-race offenders are probably having just as easy a time as ever getting away with it.