Mugshots of alleged rapists in Rotherham<\/p>\n
At least 250,000 British girls suffered sickening sexual abuse by Pakistani gangs, who were enabled by police, social workers, and even Prime Minister Keir Starmer, to commit \u201cchild rape on an industrial scale,\u201d<\/em> British MP Rupert Lowe\u2019s \u2018Rape Gang Report\u2019 has detailed.<\/p>\n Published on Tuesday, the 218-page report makes for sobering reading. It details the decades-long abuse of hundreds of thousands of white British girls \u2013 and smaller numbers of white boys and Sikh girls \u2013 by organized Pakistani \u2018grooming gangs\u2019 in 149 districts of the UK.<\/p>\n Witness testimony describes the most depraved acts of sexual violence \u2013 including preteen girls raped hundreds of times, threatened with death, and sodomized by dogs \u2013 happening in plain sight of the authorities tasked with its prevention.<\/p>\n Put together in just over a year, the report cost \u00a3600,000 ($803,000), drew on interviews with hundreds of victims and thousands of Freedom of Information requests, and yet has received zero mainstream coverage. Amid the UK media blackout, here\u2019s what you need to know:<\/p>\n The British government has held several probes into child sexual abuse by so-called \u2018grooming gangs\u2019 in northern England before, most notably the Jay Inquiry and Telford Inquiry. However, both of these investigations were narrowly-focused on specific locations, and did not conclude that the gangs were a nationwide phenomenon.<\/p>\n Unlike the Telford and Jay reports, Lowe\u2019s report was not funded by taxpayer money, and focused on the entire UK, rather than just northern England. The investigation was crowdfunded, and the report draws on previous studies, court records, and interviews with survivors to conclude that predominantly Pakistani rape gangs operated in 149 local authority districts in England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland \u2013 almost half of the UK\u2019s 317 municipalities.<\/p>\n Lowe\u2019s report explicitly frames the abuse as racially- and religiously-motivated, describing it as \u201cevil that has been, and continues to be, perpetrated by chiefly Pakistani Muslim men against vulnerable young white women and girls.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Previous reports suggested that around 250,000 women and girls had been raped by grooming gangs since the year 2000, based on extrapolated data from towns like Rotherham and Telford. Lowe\u2019s report describes this number as \u201ca bare minimum,\u201d<\/em> pointing out the problem of under-reporting encountered by other studies, and the fact that \u201csexual abuse of all kinds tends to be under-reported.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n Given that Britain\u2019s first instance of gang-rape by Pakistani men was reported in 1955, \u201cvictims must number in the hundreds of thousands,\u201d<\/em> the report states.<\/p>\n Witness testimony makes up the bulk of the report. With a few exceptions, including a boy who was raped by a gang of white British men, the cases followed a similar pattern: a working class white girl suffering trauma or abuse at home is groomed by older Muslim men, who provide her with alcohol, drugs, and gifts. Once her trust is gained, the girl is repeatedly raped and physically abused, often by hundreds of men.<\/p>\n Lowe read some of the most harrowing testimony aloud in a parliamentary session earlier this month, and the report goes into further, explicit detail.<\/p>\n In Parliament, reading the testimonies of rape gang survivors provided to our inquiry.<\/p>\n Please watch, listen and understand. pic.twitter.com\/C7dyIL46ga<\/a><\/p>\n \u2014 Rupert Lowe MP (@RupertLowe10) June 17, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\nHow is the rape gangs report different?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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