UK Baroness Casey Demands Truth and Justice for Grooming Victims

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Baroness Casey Demands Truth and Justice for Grooming Victims

 

Baroness Louise Casey has expressed deep outrage over the persistent failure to protect young girls from grooming gangs across England, stating, “I have rage on behalf of the victims.” Her latest findings show that, more than a decade after initial revelations of systemic abuse, the same failures are repeating, with victims still unsupported and abusers often unaccounted for.

 

Casey’s investigation exposed not just the horrifying abuse—where vulnerable, mainly white girls are plied with drugs and alcohol and coerced into sex by men, often through violence—but also a national reluctance to confront the scale and dynamics of the crimes. She uncovered what she called an “appalling lack” of ethnicity data on perpetrators, a failure rooted in fears of reputational damage and cultural sensitivity. “Without a doubt,” she said, “there’s a fear that if you get to the bottom of this then it turns out to be something you don’t want to hear.”

 

Pakistani ethnic population South
Yorkshire’s (2.4%) or Rotherham (4%) but account for 64% (!) of all child sex abusers

 

 

Despite the devastating exposure of grooming in Rotherham years ago, where Casey and others had previously laid bare the extent of abuse and institutional neglect, she found that most local authorities have resisted further inquiry. “Everywhere I went, I found people saying, ‘Oh we don’t need an inquiry’. Apart from Oldham, nowhere else embraced the idea of doing a local inquiry. And I realised, ‘We haven’t got this right’,” she said.

 

 

She is calling for a national inquiry to enforce accountability, stating, “We have let victims down. And they’re children. There isn’t this willingness to look at the history and say ‘Did we get this right?’ And so I moved very much to the conclusion that we need national grip.”

 

Casey emphasized the trauma these girls endure, referring to the official term—“group-based child sexual exploitation”—as deeply insufficient to capture the reality of “child victims of rape, often gang rape, having to have abortions, contracting sexually transmitted infections, having children taken from them at birth.” Worse still, when victims do report their abuse, they are frequently retraumatized by systems that disbelieve or disregard them.

 

She was especially disheartened by the lack of institutional accountability. “Nobody has been held accountable for the decisions they made. Nobody is learning the lessons they should learn to make sure this doesn’t happen again.”

 

Casey recalled the pioneering work of journalist Andrew Norfolk, whose 2011 investigations into predominantly Pakistani grooming gangs in towns like Rotherham were met with resistance and accusations of racism. His reporting was critical in helping her understand both the scale and the cover-up of the crimes. Norfolk passed away last month, and Casey expressed her belief that his work should have sparked long-term institutional reform.

 

“I presumed that the government, police, councils and other agencies would wake up to the fact that these were abused children and do their damnedest to make sure these victims were given as much care, respect and chance at justice as possible.” But, she added, “That has not happened.”

 

She attributes this ongoing failure to three core issues: cultural sensitivities, fear of reputational damage, and societal indifference to poor and vulnerable adolescent girls. She recalled an incident where a Rotherham official had redacted the word “Pakistani” from a children’s services file, saying, “I thought, ‘Oh God, the person that did this is well-meaning but utterly stupid’.”

 

Casey added, “People’s ability to put their reputation above everything else is quite profound,” noting the anxiety among public officials about being publicly scapegoated. “I understand that nervousness,” she said, but insisted it cannot override the duty to protect children.

 

Perhaps most damningly, she criticized society’s apathy. “If they were our children, the three of us who are women here in this room, there would be outrage. We would not put up with this if they were children that belonged in middle-class families.” She believes it is the responsibility of those in public life, especially in government, to ensure the voiceless are finally heard and protected.

 

Casey is adamant that examining the ethnicity of offenders is necessary for effective crime prevention and is not an act of racism. “Do I want kids who happen to be Asian walking around the streets of this country thinking that I or anybody else has said they are more likely to be a perpetrator of these heinous crimes? I do not think that and I do not want them to think that,” she said. “But it is the right thing to do to collect the data sufficiently and start having the difficult conversations locally and nationally. I think everybody needs to be measured and calm.”

 

Full Report:

https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/684ffae201d3b0e7b62da722/National_Audit_on_Group-based_Child_Sexual_Exploitation_and_Abuse.pdf

 

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  Adapted by ASEAN Now from The Times  2025-06-18