Here I first discuss what the report says, and then – under subtitle “Boys” – what it misses. -William Collins aka MRA-UK
The Casey Report
Baroness Casey’s report, the National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse,
is currently topical. Rightly so as it provides some valuable insights
into the UK’s so-called “grooming gangs” problem that has become a
worldwide scandal. However, it is far from definitive, as Casey herself
is careful to emphasise.
The public want to know if, as many suspect, this “grooming gang”
phenomenon is predominantly, or at least disproportionately, perpetrated
by men of Pakistani heritage, or from other Muslim cultures. By the
shorthand (and rather euphemistic) term “grooming gang” I refer to the
particularly heinous crime of industrial scale sexual exploitation and
abuse of children by groups of men against (usually) groups of child
victims, sustained over time and typically involving the most horrific
violent sexual abuse by multiple men on multiple occasions. The nature
of the abuse has been described by MP Katie Lam.
The dominant narrative has forbidden any claims that there might be
degrees of heinousness in sex crimes, especially rape. But to deny it,
even in rape cases, is to deny a distinction between the crimes of
“grooming gangs”, as described above, and cases of “ordinary sex” after a
night out in which consent is later disputed.
