Council areas where British-Pakistani men raped young white girls have endorsed an Islamophobia definition which labels the phrase 'Asian grooming gangs' racist. This report says that using the term 'Asian grooming gangs' is a repetition of 'age-old stereotypes and tropes about Islam' of 'sexual profligacy and paedophilia, or Islam and violence'. The figures were revealed by the team running the first national police project to track and analyse 'group-based' child sexual abuse cases which includes the ethnic backgrounds of offenders. As previously reported, child groomers will get tougher prison sentences as part of a crackdown on the 'most vile and horrific of crimes', Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced this week. 'The punishment must fit the terrible crime,' she told MPs, as she outlined a series of measures to tackle child sexual exploitation and abuse.

Source: The Times January 11, 2025 13:50 UTC