https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/23/the-grooming-gangs-scandal-is-far-worse-than-you-think/
The details of what grooming gangs did to young British girls are literally unbelievable. They are so grotesque that it is truly hard to believe that one human could do such things to another, never mind to young girls.
That is why court transcripts are such valuable documents. Courts are one of the last places in the UK where you will hear the truth. In trials, there is generally little tolerance of ideology or cliché and claims must be backed up by hard evidence.
When some of the grooming gangs were eventually brought to court and the truth was dragged into the light, their crimes were just as bad or even worse than campaigners had originally claimed. It was easy for many of us to be sceptical about the full extent of the scandal. After all, there have been many cases of grisly sounding crimes that have turned out to be hoaxes, designed to make some kind of ideological point. Like when Jussie Smollett, a gay black actor, falsely claimed he was attacked in liberal Chicago by Trump supporters, who supposedly put a noose around his neck and threw bleach at him. Or when the white players of the Duke University lacrosse team were accused by Crystal Mangum of raping her and using their influence to avoid prosecution – only for Mangum to reveal, 18 years later, that she had lied.
The grooming-gangs scandal sounds like a similarly fantastical story. Mostly Muslim men targeted primarily white British girls and subjected them to rape, trafficking, beatings and forced substance addiction. Meanwhile, police forces ignored and sometimes even facilitated this abuse, afraid that intervening would lead to them being called racist.