Senior Officers 'still Target Other Crimes Above Child Grooming'

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With Academics spouting theorectical trash like this is it any wonder kalyug will deepen to the level that Guru ji has told us

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/10948796/Paedophilia-is-natural-and-normal-for-males.html

[Jeevan]

http://www.theguardian.com/society/2015/mar/01/gangs-abused-hundreds-of-oxfordshire-children-serious-case-review

Serious case review slams police failure in serial abuse of Oxford girls

Some of the 300 victims, mostly girls in care, were exploited for more than eight years despite repeated calls for help to authorities

Thames Valley police are criticised in the report for failing to act on repeated calls for help. Photograph: Bloomberg/Getty Images

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Sunday 1 March 2015 22.00 GMT Last modified on Monday 2 March 2015 07.08 GMT

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More than 300 young people have been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the past 15 years, a damning report into the failures of police and social services to stop years of sexual torture, trafficking and rape will reveal, the Guardian has learned.

The victims, mostly girls, come predominantly from the city of Oxford, increasing concerns that the grooming and exploitation of vulnerable young people by groups of older men is not confined to the inner cities. One senior investigative source said: “If you think you haven’t got a problem in your city or town, you are just not looking for it.”

If you think you haven’t got a problem in your city or town, you are just not looking for it

Senior investigator

Police and social services in Oxfordshire will be heavily criticised for not doing enough to stop years of violent abuse and enslavement of six young girls, aged 11-15, by a gang of men. Such was the nature of the abuse, suffered for more than eight years by the girls, it was likened to torture. All of the victims had a background in care.

A serious case review by the Oxfordshire safeguarding children’s board, to be published on Tuesday, will condemn Thames Valley police for not believing the young girls, for treating them as if they had chosen to adopt the lifestyle, and for failing to act on repeated calls for help.

Oxfordshire social services – which had responsibility for the girls’ safety – will be equally damned for knowing they were being groomed and for failing to protect them despite compelling evidence they were in danger. One social worker told a trial that nine out of 10 of those responsible for the girls was aware of what was going on.

The serious case review has put a figure on the numbers exploited to give an idea of the scale of the problem. The report will say more than 300 young people have been subjected to grooming and abuse between 1999 and 2014 in Oxfordshire alone.

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The attempt to quantify the scale of abuse mirrors the work of the Jay report into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham, which said 1,400 young people had been subjected to grooming and abuse between 1999 and 2013.

An insider said the report was “brutal” in its condemnation of Thames Valley police and Oxfordshire social services.

Weeks before the publication of the serious case review, the chief executive of Oxfordshire county council, Joanna Simons, announced she would be stepping down in the summer, a move questioned by the Oxford East MP Andrew Smith, who said he was “concerned at the decision and how it had been taken”.

The council said she would not be replaced and the authority was reorganising its management structure. In a joint message with the council in January, Simons said that in order to protect frontline services, the authority would be making changes to its top team which would involve the departure of the chief executive.

The case echoes the child exploitation scandals in Rotherham, Rochdale and Derby involving gangs of men of Asian background targeting white girls in care. In Oxford, however, the grooming, sexual torture and trafficking took place on the streets of the Cowley area of the city, in churchyards, parks, a guesthouse and empty flats procured for the purpose of drugging the girls and handing them around to be gang raped and brutalised.

A 12-year-old victim was branded by the men and, when she fell pregnant, subjected to a backstreet abortion in a house in Reading. Over six years, she was repeatedly raped by groups of men in what she described as “torture sex”.

Key findings in the serious case review will expose how police officers and social workers did not listen to the girls when they spoke of the abuse they were suffering, did not believe them and dismissed them.

The girls and some of their abusers crossed the police and social services radar multiple times. In 2006 alone, the police received four complaints from the young girls about the men, with their accounts corroborated in some cases. One victim reported the abuse twice to police in 2006. She told officers: “They are doing it to other girls, little girls with their school uniforms on.”

There were thousands of contacts between both agencies and the girls and they were reported missing at least 450 times. One victim, known as Girl C, has spoken of how her foster mother reported her missing 80 times.

The number of young people identified by the report – more than 300 – as victims of child sexual exploitation in the last 15 years is considered a robust figure because the girls have all been spoken to by police or social services.

But the numbers are likely to be an underestimate. Figures from Thames Valley police reveal that 220 of the 2,000 child abuse cases reported across the force in 13 months from July 2013 to August 2014involved child sexual exploitation.

Nearly 700 children and young people suspected of being at risk of exploitation have been referred to new specialist police and social services units in Thames Valley between November 2012 and November 2014; 250 in Berkshire, 237 in Buckinghamshire and 206 in Oxfordshire.

It was not until 2011 when DCI Simon Morton trawled through missing persons reports, health records and social services data that Thames Valley police began to link the girls’ repeated patterns of going missing, returning and going missing again with the activities of the men – some of whom were known to police for drug crimes.

After a groundbreaking two-year investigation, Operation Bullfinch, seven men – including two sets of brothers – were convicted at the Old Bailey in May 2013 of 43 offences, which included trafficking, forcing girls into prostitution, procuring an illegal abortion, rape and physical violence.

Brothers Akhtar and Anjum Dogar, Bassam and Mohammed Karrar, Kamar Jamil, Zeeshan Ahmed and Assad Hussain, who were all from Oxford, were given sentences ranging from a minimum of seven to 20 years in prison.

[Jeevan]

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/uk/crime/article4371626.ece

Call for national debate on Muslim sex grooming

[Jeevan]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31908431

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16 March 2015 Last updated at 22:30 Cyril Smith child abuse probe 'scrapped after his arrest'By Nick Hopkins and Jake Morris BBC Newsnight

An undercover police operation that gathered evidence of child abuse by Cyril Smith and other public figures was scrapped shortly after the MP was arrested, BBC Newsnight has been told.

The Liberal MP, who died in 2010, was held during a 1980s probe into alleged sex parties with teenage boys in south London, a source told the programme.

He was allegedly released within hours of being taken to a police station.

The Met is looking into the handling of historical child sex abuse cases.

The force would not comment on the details of the allegations about Smith put to them by Newsnight.

A spokesman said it was "investigating allegations that police officers acted inappropriately in relation to non-recent child abuse investigations" however, and asked for anyone with information to come forward.

'Secrets act' warning

Information has been passed to Newsnight by a former officer, who is familiar with the original investigation and its closure.

The order to scrap the probe, made after Smith and others had been arrested, came from a senior officer whom the undercover team had never met before, according to the source.

Officers were then ordered to hand over all their evidence - including notebooks and video footage - and were warned to keep quiet about the investigation or face prosecution under the Official Secrets Act, it is claimed.

Newsnight has been told the intelligence-led operation is believed to have started in 1981.

It involved a team of undercover regional crime squad officers, including some from Yorkshire who were based in London for the secret inquiry.

The detectives were stationed at Gilmour House, a large police headquarters building in Kennington, south London.

The team allegedly targeted six or more addresses in the south of the capital. One focus was a flat in Coronation Buildings, Lambeth - a run-down tenement block less than a mile from the House of Commons.

During a three-month inquiry, officers working in shifts gathered a substantial amount of evidence of men abusing boys aged around 14, the BBC has been told.

That evidence included pictures and video taken from inside the flat, as a hidden camera had been installed with the help of a caretaker.

Smith is said to have been one of those caught on camera, another being a senior member of Britain's intelligence agencies.

According to an account given to the BBC, Smith was later seized at a property in Streatham, south London, where he had reportedly been taking part in a sex party with teenage boys.

It is understood he was taken to the former Cannon Row police station - which is opposite the House of Commons.

But it was claimed he was released that night and a duty sergeant who wanted to keep him in custody was reprimanded.

The BBC has been told that as well as Smith and the member of the intelligence agencies, the undercover team also had evidence on two senior police officers.

The squad believed that boys from care homes were being provided "to order" for sex parties, but the inquiry was abruptly shelved, the BBC has been told.

The team was called together at Gilmour House and told by a senior officer - whom they had never met before - to hand over their notebooks, photographs and video footage.

They were read passages from the Official Secrets Act to deter them from speaking out, according to one account.

There was a row at the police building but the inquiry was closed and officers were assured Smith "would not be playing a role in public life any more". In fact, he continued as MP for Rochdale until 1992.

Newsnight's source spoke to the programme through an intermediary and is fearful of repercussions because of the scale of the alleged cover-up.

The BBC first approached the Met about the claims in January, but the force has refused to be drawn into providing details on any live inquiry.

Simon Danczuk, the Labour MP who has worked to expose Cyril Smith as a prolific paedophile, said: "Time and again what we have learned more recently is that a number of police officers investigated Smith, up and down the country, and those investigations were quashed and officers were told to stop investigating.

"It is my view that Smith was being protected and being protected by some fairly powerful people.

"He was protected because he knew of other paedophiles in the networks in which he operated and had he been prosecuted, then I think those other people would have been named by Smith and that's why they ensured that he was never put before the courts."

Newsnight asked former Scotland Yard detective Clive Driscoll, who investigated claims of child abuse in Lambeth in the 1980s and 1990s, to examine the allegations.

"I looked at them as I probably would have done when I was a police officer and, on the balance of probabilities, you would have to say they appear very credible," said Mr Driscoll, the officer whose inquiry led to the conviction of Stephen Lawrence's killers.

'Things to hide'

"Certainly the timing and the type of allegations that are made are ones that the Met would take very, very seriously."

He described the claimed as "very credible and very frightening".

"If you take all of the information that appears to be out there together it does look like collusion with police officers and other agencies to prevent what is a straightforward criminal case," he added.

Labour MP John Mann, who was also a councillor in Lambeth in the 1980s, said of the allegations: "It tells me the cloak of secrecy needs to be taken away but also suggests that there were people with things to hide at the time.

"For whatever reason, whatever judgement was made, there was a cover-up at the time. I don't know why, but it has happened time and again looking at these historic sex abuse cases and prominent people that files disappeared."

Watch Nick Hopkins's report on Newsnight or on BBC iPlayer.

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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31907201

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16 March 2015 Last updated at 20:17 Metropolitan Police probed over child abuse 'cover-up' claims

The police watchdog is investigating alleged corruption in the Metropolitan Police, including claims it covered up child sex offences because MPs and police officers were involved.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission is investigating 14 referrals spanning four decades.

It said the claims were of "high-level corruption of the most serious nature".

The Met said it had voluntarily referred the allegations, which arose from an investigation launched in 2012.

The investigation, known as Operation Fairbank, is looking into historical child sex abuse claims involving politicians and other public figures.

Peter Saunders, chief executive of the National Association for People Abused in Childhood (Napac), said the corruption allegations could lead to "absolutely massive" revelations.

He said people calling their helpline had made allegations about "high-profile" people, including politicians, for years and that he had wondered "if the truth was ever going to come out".

Allegations, dating from between 1970 and 2005, being considered by the IPCC include:

• A potential cover-up linked to "failures to properly investigate child sex abuse offences in south London and further information about criminal allegations against a politician being dropped"
• A claim that an investigation into young men being targeted at the Dolphin Square flats in Pimlico, south-west London, was halted because "officers were too near prominent people"
• An allegation that a document from the Houses of Parliament was found at a paedophile's address linking "highly-prominent individuals", including MPs and senior police officers, to a paedophile ring but no further action was taken
• Alleged alteration of a child sex abuse victim's account to remove the name of a senior politician
• Alleged child sex abuse by a senior politician and a subsequent cover-up of the alleged crimes
• Claims that a surveillance operation of a child abuse ring was shut down due to "high-profile people being involved"
• An allegation that police officers sexually abused a boy and carried out surveillance on him

'On the cusp'

Labour MP for Rochdale Simon Danczuk told BBC Radio 4's World at One the investigation was a "significant development".

Mr Danczuk, who had been calling for such an inquiry, said: "We are on the cusp of finding out exactly what went on in the 70s and 1980s and, I'm sorry to say, I think it will be shown that senior politicians were involved in abuse and there was a cover up. I think that's inevitable now."

The former Daily Mirror crime correspondent Jeff Edwards has recently been contacted by the police. He says he was told by a detective in the 1980s that an investigation into paedophiles was closed on the orders of a senior politician.

"I think this was a cynical cover up," he said. "There was no doubt in their minds the way they would deal with this was simply to expunge it from the record. As far as they were concerned they could make it go away forever."

Labour MP John Mann has also been providing information.

"Having looked and heard other evidence, spoken to other police officers and those in authority who were stopped from investigating, without question there were repeated attempts, successfully at the time, to stop investigations into prominent people and MPs involved in child abuse," he said.

BBC home affairs correspondent Tom Symonds said the allegations would take "a lot of people and a lot of time to investigate".

"Looking into the past is very difficult and time consuming," he said. "Although we have the allegations, we don't know how strong the evidence is and the key is in the evidence."

The IPCC will "manage" an investigation that was already being conducted by the Met Police's Directorate of Professional Standards into the alleged corruption.

A further two referrals of a similar nature have been received from the Met Police and are being assessed, the IPCC said.

The force said in a statement it "recognised the severity of the allegations, and the importance of understanding whether or not our officers had in the past acted inappropriately".

Peter Garsden, president of the Association of Child Abuse Lawyers, said those who had suffered abuse themselves would want the inquiry to be conducted transparently.

He told the BBC: "They will believe that even this investigation, I suspect, will be yet another cover-up. So it's very difficult to persuade them that everything is being done."

Shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper said: "It is worrying that this is not a fully independent investigation. Instead the Met will lead this work with oversight from the IPCC.

"Surely this should be done by an independent investigator or, at the very least, an alternate force."

The other allegations that form part of the IPCC investigation are:

• An allegation that an investigation into a paedophile ring that led to a number of convictions did not take action "in relation to other more prominent individuals"
• A claim that a politician spoke to a senior Metropolitan Police officer to demand no action was taken regarding an alleged paedophile ring in Westminster in the 1970s
• An allegation that in the late 1970s a surveillance operation that gathered intelligence on a politician being involved in paedophile activities was closed down by a senior Met Police officer
• A claim that a dossier of allegations against senior figures and politicians accused of being involved in child abuse was taken by Special Branch officers
• Allegations that a senior officer instructed that a sexual abuse investigation should be halted, with the order having come from "up high" in the Met
• An alleged conspiracy within the force to prevent a politician suspected of offences from being prosecuted
• Child sex abuse allegations against a former senior Met Police officer with other "members of the establishment", including judges, alleged to have been involved. It is claimed no further action was taken

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[jkvlondon]

Maggie Thatcher knew all about the paedos in her government , but chose to ignore it and help cover it up and it is said arranged for people to handle the needs of these people so that it was safer for her fro exposures.

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Maggie Thatcher knew all about the paedos in her government , but chose to ignore it and help cover it up and it is said arranged for people to handle the needs of these people so that it was safer for her fro exposures.

And 3 or 4 days ago, the present Prime Minister publicly unveils a statue in central London in tribute to a notorious peadophile who habitually slept naked with little girls in order to 'test his purity'.

Something is very VERY rotten in the state of denmark.

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JKV YOUR BACKKKK!

Anyway... The politicians will always do what's best. The Ghandi Statue is just for Indian votes.

[jkvlondon]

JKV YOUR BACKKKK!

Anyway... The politicians will always do what's best. The Ghandi Statue is just for Indian votes.

Hanji Veer ji I'm back ...it's been very quiet here ...so what do the SIkhs think they should do for the next four years ....lib, lab, or con... personally I place my Vote with Guru ji but we need to remove the dirt from power... the cons are sucking up majorly to Modi and co ...remind s me of 84 again ...Waheguru ji kirpa karo ,

they are clearly not giving a damn about sikh sentiments ...they put a backstabber/paedo statue up and invite the main sikh genocide inciter as a witness to this event ...

[Jeevan]

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/11866302.Detectives_probe_complaint_by_Louise_Mensch_against_Bradford_solicitors/?ref=mac

Detectives probe complaint by Louise Mensch against Bradford solicitors

6:03am Thursday 19th March 2015

Exclusive By Julie Tickner

DETECTIVES are considering a complaint made by former MP Louise Mensch about two Bradford solicitors alleged to have shared the names and ordeals of victims of a child sex ring.

Greater Manchester Police (GMP) is considering the report made about Alias Yousaf of Chambers Solicitors and another, unnamed, senior solicitor at the same firm.

Both deny any wrongdoing.

Mr Yousaf represented a defendant in the high profile Rochdale grooming case heard at Liverpool Crown Court in 2012. His client was one of nine men convicted and was jailed for eight years for his part in the abuse.

It has now been alleged that prior to the case reaching trial, Mr Yousaf emailed an unredacted case summary to a member of the public.

Mrs Mensch's complaint to GMP - which handled the grooming case - asks the force to investigate under the Children and Young Persons' Act and the Data Protection Act, as well as consider Contempt of Court laws.

"I've filed a report with Greater Manchester Police against Alias Yousaf," she told the Telegraph & Argus.

Mrs Mensch said the little girls involved deserved privacy.

"The allegations are extraordinarily serious," she added.

Last night a GMP spokesman confirmed: "On Monday, March 16, 2015, Greater Manchester Police received a report relating to an alleged leak of confidential information. The matter is linked to the prosecution of a number of men in a high profile exploitation case in Rochdale in 2011.

"Enquiries into this matter are ongoing."

Last month, Mrs Mensch, the former Conservative MP, for Corby posted Tweets alleging that Mr Yousaf had leaked names of child sex abuse victims. This led to Mr Yousaf sending her a Letter Before Action, a libel protocol, threatening court proceedings and asking for the Tweets to be deleted, payment of £4,000 in legal fees and a compensation proposal.

Mrs Mensch said she had not removed the Tweets and her lawyer had written to Chambers.

The Letter Before Action, seen by the Telegraph & Argus, says Mr Yousaf did not make "unauthorised or deliberate disclosures of any material to any person".

But it does refer to an email and three-page case summary attachment sent "with the express permission and authority of the defendant".

It said that information was sent on the "strict understanding" it would not be shared and used only for research purposes, and adds that a senior solicitor was aware.

Last night, Mr Yousaf told the T&A: "Not only do we deny any wrongdoing, but we have at all times acted in accordance with our professional obligations - any suggestion to the contrary is nonsense and entirely malicious."

Mr Yousaf has also been referred to the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA) over the allegations.

The watchdog is also investigating at least two separate complaints about Chambers Solicitors regarding similar Letters Before Action which were recently sent to up to 12 Twitter users on behalf of Bradford West MP George Galloway.

A spokesman for the SRA said it did not usually confirm if a complaint had been made about a particular firm, or how many.

He added: "It is only if disciplinary action it taken against a solicitor that it becomes a matter of public record."

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