The ethnic origins of the'grooming gangs' is totally immaterial - they were a tiny number of criminals and, next to the number of indigenous criminals engaged in similar activities, never featured on the paeophelia scale
The press made an issue of the ones of foreign origin and ignored the home-grown ones
As it has now become apparent, there were probably more well-known celebrities, members of Parliament and leading businessmen involved in far more series activities, including torture and murder, many who escaped justice because of who and what they were.
It was racist to have concentrated on the cultural origins of these few criminals

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Jim Carroll