Were these young girls being raped and trafficked by much older pimps? If so, and nobody told, then shame on them. I have heard that "nobody told" about a lot of bad things in the old days. Thankfully, hopefully, the climate of unspoken acceptance of and apathy towards abuse is gradually changing. But no doubt we still have some way to go.

I don't know. What I do know is that pimping and rape are activities indulged in widely by white men. As is trafficking. And kids' subcultures are often concealed from adults. Kids are bloody good at that, as anyone who's had teenagers can tell you. I live in a peaceful seaside town with a low crime rate, but there is still a severe problem with feral kids out late, their parents probably oblivious to the fact they're even out of the house at all, being supplied with booze by older kids or adults. This thread, hypocritically, has focussed on a very specific activity by a very specific group that was uncovered, ignoring the generality of sexual abuse in this country and trying to make out that, somehow, here we have a Pakistani problem. Stinks, don't it.