The following is something I saw in a social media comment section, when making a rare visit to one of these (I don’t usually recommend doing this by the way).
The writer, I recall, had a customary profile photo signalling her support for the Ukraine. Of course she did.
Anyway, the comment:
“British Asians are 9% of the population, and 7% of the accused in child sex abuse cases.
White British are 83% of the population and 88% of accused in child sex abuse cases (Source: UK Home Office).
Asian grooming gangs has become a huge focus in right wing mainstream and social media because it forms part of the culture wars that serve to divide us.
Let’s remember that it is largely men, no matter their ethnicity, who are responsible for child sexual abuse, and as the Epstein files show us, it is very wealthy and powerful WHITE men who were the abusers of groomed and trafficked children and vulnerable young women. None of them have been held accountable.
Kemi Badenoch was an MP from 2017-2024 and mentioned grooming gangs ZERO times in Parliament, including during her 19 months as Minister for Women.
Let’s make sure we focus on the safety and wellbeing of children no matter who the abusers are, and resist any temptation for political point scoring by undue emphasis on the ethnicity of perpetrators, a focus which may appeal to those with racist tendencies.”
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Yes and no. Mostly no.
Before I get too far into it, let us look at the Elephant in the room.
She condemns “political point scoring by undue emphasis on the ethnicity of perpetrators, a focus which may appeal to those with racist tendencies”
… whilst not only focussing solely on Conservative government failings, but highlighting “men, no matter their ethnicity, who are responsible for child sexual abuse, and as the Epstein files show us, it is very wealthy and powerful WHITE men”
Says “don’t focus on politics and race”.
Goes on to focus on politics and race.
Moving on.
But yes, her first part is broadly correct for overall child sexual abuse (CSA) cases in England and Wales, based on available official data. That is important to emphasise, all of that.
Important caveats we must look at however are data limitations. Ethnicity is not recorded in a large proportion of cases (often 2/3 for group-based CSE in some audits), and many offences go unreported. This affects precision. And we will come back to that shortly.
The main misleading angle she took is that she is jumbling child sex abuse with group-based grooming gangs.
Although the figures broadly hold for all CSA, we know that high-profile “grooming gang” cases (e.g., Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and many many many more less high profile) show disproportionate involvement of Pakistani/Asian heritage men in certain localised group-based exploitation models.
Read ‘Easy Meat: Inside Britain’s Grooming Gang Scandal‘ by Peter McLoughlin for greater understanding.
The Baroness Casey 2025 Report noted that although we know that national data for all broad CSA still shows Whites as the large majority, there is an over-representation of Asian men in specific police force areas for group-based CSE.
Re-read that last paragraph. My emphasis on the parts in bold are key.
Amongst other systemic and institutional failures, Casey noter under-reporting and poor data. The true scale is unknown and likely much larger due to under-reporting, inconsistent definitions, and flawed data collection. One dataset recorded ~700 group-based CSE offences in 2023, but this is considered a severe undercount. Ethnicity data for perpetrators was missing in about two-thirds of cases—a “major failing.”
Authorities often “shied away” from examining ethnicity due to fears of racism or community tensions, leading to denial and paralysis. Local data from areas like Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire showed disproportionate involvement of men of Pakistani/Asian heritage in group-based CSE of predominantly white girls.
Nationally, data gaps prevent firm conclusions, but enough convictions existed to warrant closer scrutiny. The report criticised misleading claims (e.g., that most offenders are white) as unhelpful.
But as always, leftists (on and off social media) condemn racism, whilst being racist and condemn politicisation, whilst politicising. And they try to scare off anyone from addressing the serious issues which are otherwise avoidable. Hence this scandal came to be in the first place.
Time will tell? Time has told.
– BrandX