20ish yrs ago I was working on a child protection case, one that focused upon incest, on prostituting children, upon kidnapping, upon slavery, upon rape, one that the grandparents were controlling all of this with their children and children’s children being actively involved.
This case was almost nation wide, with several police forces and social services involved.
Child protection workers, managers and support workers gave up a weekend to put up a genogram onto the walls of a large team office. It took three of the walls to complete. The number of people involved was startling and beyond shocking.
I could name the family even now, but due to my respecting confidentiality I will not.
This was not a Muslim family. They were not immigrants. These were a white British family.
There was no real press coverage of this, no comments from anyone like Tommeh Yaxley-Lemmon, yes some arrests were made, some convictions achieved, many children saved from further abuse.
Yet the media were silenced, whether by officialdom or by the owners of the media, for whatever reason.
So when you all talk of Rotherham, yes it was vile, inexcusable and every single abuser needs holding to full account. But it is not only Rotherham, with the family I am relating this to, it (unusually) was not even only men.
The thing is we only ever truly find out about the cases those in power, those with influence want us to find out about, and only then when it fits their agenda of hate and can be used as a tool to divide us all.
Jonesy, simply a human 