CV NEWS FEED // The leader of the United Kingdom Conservative Party this week announced that her Party will propose an amendment requiring a national inquiry into the abuse of thousands of British minors, largely perpetrated by Pakistani Muslims, that went underreported for years because those accused are an ethnic and religious minority.
“I was serious when I said it’s time to get justice for victims,” party leader and member of parliament Kemi Badenoch posted on her X account Jan. 6. “So on Wednesday, Conservatives will put forward an amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing Bill to require a full national inquiry into the rape gangs grooming scandal.”
I was serious when I said it’s time to get justice for victims. So on Wednesday, Conservatives will put forward an amendment to the Children's Wellbeing Bill to require a full national inquiry into the rape gangs grooming scandal.
— Kemi Badenoch (@KemiBadenoch) January 6, 2025
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Badenoch’s call is a response to Home Office minister Jess Phillips’ rejection of the same proposal, which the Oldham Council made in October 2024, according to the BBC.
There have been multiple local investigations into rape gangs, including a 2014 report in Rotherham that found that over a 16-year period, perpetrators abused 1,400 minors in Rotherham alone, which has a population of 268,354. Dominic Green reported in a Jan. 5 Free Press article that most of these men were Muslim.
The BBC states that Professor Alexis Jay of the University of Strathclyde led the Independent Inquiry into Child Sex Abuse (IICSA)’s 2022 report, which investigated the abuse in various territories. The report made 20 suggestions for tackling the crisis, none of which have been implemented. Jay said she found this frustrating.
“It’s a difficult subject matter, but it is essential that there’s some public understanding of it,” Jay said. “But we can only do what we can to press the government to look at the delivery of all of this. It doesn’t need more consultation, it does not need more research or discussion, it just needs to be done.”
The crimes are still ongoing, wrote Green. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak established the Grooming Gangs Taskforce in April 2023, according to the UK’s government website. The website states that from spring 2023 to spring 2024, the task force arrested 550 suspects and identified and protected 4,000 victims.
Green wrote that both the Labour and Conservative parties had ignored the pedophile rings for years until the scandal came into the global spotlight at the beginning of 2025, after Elon Musk began posting about the crisis on X. Green stated that “the biggest peacetime crime — and cover-up — in British history” has been perpetrated on each level of government.
“Social workers were intimidated into silence. Local police ignored, excused, and even abetted pedophile rapists across dozens of cities,” Green wrote. “Senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called ‘community relations.’ Local councilors and Members of Parliament rejected pleas for help from the parents of raped children.”
Green reported that in one case a girl named “Sophie” was molested in a graveyard in 2006, when she was just 12 years old. When she entered a police station and told the police, an officer told her to return with an adult once she was sober. Right after she made the report, Green said, two men in the police station accosted her, and brought her to their car, where there was a third man. All three men raped her. On her attempt to return home, two other men abducted her and raped her. One of the men had offered her a ride “home” before taking her to a house where she was raped repeatedly by four different men.
In another account, Green said a man named Azhar Ali Mehmood groomed a 12-year-old girl named Lucy Lowe, impregnated her at 14 and again at 16. He murdered her, her second unborn child, her disabled older sister, and her mother when he set their home on fire.
“Mehmood was jailed for life in 2001 for murder — not sex crimes,” Green reported.
According to Green, charities, non-governmental organizations, Labour Members of Parliament, and the majority of Britain’s “elite media” have either downplayed or outright ignored the scandal.
“They did this to defend a failed model of multiculturalism, and to avoid asking hard questions about failures of immigration policy and assimilation,” Green wrote. “They did this because they were afraid of being called racist or Islamophobic. They did this because Britain’s traditional class snobbery had fused with the new snobbery of political correctness.”
Throughout the history of the scandals, which might have begun as early as the 1970s, the gang rape crimes have occurred in at least 50 cities in England, according to Green.
“The suffering described in the court papers is sickening to read,” he wrote. “The girls were drugged, beaten, sodomized, gang-raped, trafficked, and tortured.” Many were murdered after they were trafficked.
The government must act, Green wrote.
“Pressure from Musk has already done what the outrage of the beaten-down British people cannot do,” Green concluded. “Musk has shamed the British government into explaining itself. Next, it must be forced to act.”