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the whole nation is shocked by the rape
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gang scandal thousands of young teenage
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girls systematically raped over years by
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men of predominantly Pakistani heritage
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girls like Jane who was repeatedly gang
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raped at the age of just 12 the police
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found her being abused by an illegal
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immigrant but instead of arresting the
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illegal immigrant they arrested her that
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is sick the last government took action
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by setting up the wider Jay inquiry and
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the grooming gangs task force but the
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truth is that is not enough there is now
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clear evidence that those in authority
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covered up these rapes because the
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perpetrators were mainly of Pakistani
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heritage last week I met retired
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Detective Chief Inspector John Picos in
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Bradford he witnessed the abuse of a
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young girl in a car but he was then
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instructed by a chief superintendent to
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drop the matter to avoid antagonizing
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Bradford's Muslim community covering up
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the rape of young girls for that reason
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is one of the most immoral things I have
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ever heard yet not a single person not
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one has ever been held to account for
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these cover-ups that is why we need a
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national statutory public inquiry which
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can compel production of evidence even
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last year authorities in Manchester were
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still covering up leading to the chairs
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of the local Manchester inquiry to
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resign five local inquiries which can't
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compel the production of evidence just
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won't do 50 towns are affected not five
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and Bradford where some of the worst
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abuse occurred is refusing to cooperate
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with any inquiry at all so there won't
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be an inquiry in Bradford because their
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council is refusing to participate now
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Mr speaker the home secretary promised
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on the 16th of January that Baroness
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Casey would complete a rapid audit
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within 3 months well 3 months has now
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passed and we have heard nothing
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whatsoever almost there the government
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said there would be five local inquiries
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but we know nothing about four of them
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and the man charged with setting them up
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Tom Crowther said to the Home Affairs
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Committee on the first of this month
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that he had been sidelined by the
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minister over there and quote did not
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know what was going on now finally Mr
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speaker I recently met Marlon West whose
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daughter was trafficked abused and raped
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by mainly Asian men including in
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Bradford he said this government should
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be ashamed of themselves and they should
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hold a national inquiry jane who was
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trafficked and gang raped at 12 also
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wants a statutory national inquiry
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labour Mayor Andy Burnham Harriet Harmon
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and the Labour MP for Rotherham all
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agree so will the minister do what they
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and Maron and Jane are all begging for
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and hold that national inquiry so those
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who covered up that scandal are at last
