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The UK Inquiry Into Grooming Gangs: London (6/22/26) · The Vault: The Epstein Files

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  Speaker 1: What's up everyone, and welcome back to the program. In
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  this episode, we're going to pick back up where we
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  left off with the Grooming Gang's report coming out of England.
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  Overview of crimes, rape gangs have exploited children systematically across
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  every region of the United Kingdom for decades. The independent
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  chair of the Center of Excellence for Children's Care and Protection,
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  Alexis j has identified the nineteen seventies as the decade
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  when immigrant rape gangs first began tormenting the girls of Britain. However,
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  the British newspaper Archive reveals that the first recorded case
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  of specifically Pakistani rape gangs dates back to nineteen fifty five,
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  when four Bradford based Pakistanis were charged with raping a
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  fifteen year old girl from Middlesbrough. This was soon after
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  former colonial subjects from the subcontinent as much as the Caribbean,
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  became eligible to enter the UK in nontrivia numbers under
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  the British Nationality Act of nineteen forty eight. What began
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  as a singular and small scale instance became systematic and
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  industrial over time. These horrific crimes have only escalated in
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  recent decades, especially following Tony Blair's ninety seven victory and
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  the start of orchestrated mass immigration. With greater numbers came
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  greater opportunities for abuse. Perpetrators built organized networks that transported
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  victims between towns and cities and past girls between multiple
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  adult men. In each of these areas that same tactics
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  were used. Girls as young as eleven were targeted with gifts, alcohol,
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  and drugs, collected in taxis from school gates, care homes
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  and streets, and taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels,
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  and then raped repeatedly by groups of men passed between perpetrators,
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  trafficked across county lines, and in many cases impregnated or
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  forced into abortions. Most victims endured violence were filmed for
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  blackmail or told that they were white trash or coffer
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  who deserve punishment. The authorities at every level, including the police,
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  social services, health services, schools, licensing bodies, and politicians, knew
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  the patterns, possessed the intelligence, and still failed to protect
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  the country's children. The evidence establishes that a national scandal
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  of repeated rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion and
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  lifelong trauma enabled by institutional denial, political calculation and fear
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  of the accusation of racism, took place over decades. The
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  incidents of criminal activities listed in this report are drawn
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  from court records, official and unofficial inquiries across the country,
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  and witness testimony provided to the Inquiry. They confirmed that
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  this was never a series of isolated local failures. It
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  was a coordinated nationwide pattern of organized child sexual exploitation
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  that repeated in town after town, city after city, from
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  the far north to the south coast. The same ethnic
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  and religious profile of the perpetrators was documented throughout almost
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  all of the witnesses who contacted the inquiry. The scale
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  of the rape gang phenomenon is endemic across the entirety
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  of Britain. The two hundred and fifty thousand figure originates
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  directly from a statement in the House of Lords by
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  Lord Pearson of Rannik on May fourteenth, twenty nineteen. Do
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  the Government accept that if we extrapolate nationally the Jay
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  report on Roterham and other reports from Telford and Oxford,
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  there appear to have been upwards of two hundred and
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  fifty thousand young white girls raped in this country. Very
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  largely by Muslim Men, usually several times a day for years.
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  He added that this number is probably an underestimate. This
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  extrapolation now has greater support due to further data that's
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  been collected derived from scaling the patterns documented in major inquiries.
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  Roderham Jay Report twenty fourteen at least fourteen hundred girls
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  abused between nineteen ninety seven and twenty thirteen, with some
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  updated estimates exceeding this. Perpetrators were overwhelmingly Pakistani muslim Men.
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  The Telford Inquiry twenty twenty two more than one thousand
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  children predominantly grows over decades, again with the same perpetrator
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  profile national footprint. The Grumen gang model has been confirmed
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  in dozens of towns and cities. Our independent inquiry, led
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  by Rupert Lowe MP, has heard evidence demonstrating coordinated operations
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  extending to all four corners of the country in at
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  least one hundred and forty nine local authority districts. When
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  the rotter had Telford scale is applied across the documented
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  national distribution and multiplied by the extreme under reporting factor
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  accepted by official reviews, the total reaches the two hundred
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  and fifty thousand threshold as a bare minimum, we are
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  far from grasping the full extent of grooming gang criminality
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  in modern Britain. It's reasonable to assume that since sexual
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  abuse of all kinds tends to be under reported, this
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  is also true of grooming gangs. The Independent has reported
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  that almost nineteen thousand children were identified as sexual exploitation
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  victims in England in one year alone, despite the reluctance
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  of state actors to name or tackle the problem of
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  the rape gangs after decades of abuse, victims must number
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  in the hundreds of thousands. The full scale is not
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  yet known. Every major review has emphasized that recorded statistics
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  severely under state reality Barness Casey National Audit on group
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  based child sexual act Exploitation Abuse June twenty twenty five.
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  The audit explicitly states that the scale, nature and characteristics
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  of group based child's sexual exploitation remained impossible to quantify
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  precisely due to inconsistent data collection and historical suppression. Independent
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  Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse se SA and multiple local
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  inquiries twenty twenty two and twenty twenty five. It's simply
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  not possible to know the scale because ethnicity, group offending
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  and historical cases were routinely unrecorded or shelved to protect
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  community cohesion. Overleaf is a heat map that portrays the
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  various locations in which the inquiry can be sure the
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  rape gangs operated. It's likely that the true extent is
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  far worse. The scale, the tactics, the perpetrator profile, and
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  the systematic inaction were almost always identical. Everywhere Britain did
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  not face does it of separate local scandals, It faced
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  one national scandal that the state allowed to grow for
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  decades London. London stands exposed as the epicenter of institutional
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  denial in the grooming gang scandal. While northern towns face
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  public inquiries after the truth emerged, the capital maintained a
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  wall of silence for years. The Mayor of London, Sadik Khan,
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  has repeatedly insisted that there were no grooming gangs operating
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  in the city. As our inquiry heard from Susan Hall,
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  leader of the Conservatives in London Assembly, the right gang
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  phenomenon is in fact endemic within the capital. After challenging
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  Khan about the presence of such gangs in London, Hall
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  was inundated with calls from women and girls purporting to
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  be victims of their predation. Khan described evidence from whistleblowers
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  as malicious and politically motivated. He told the London Assembly
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  that the problem was far more complex than in any
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  other part of the country and that young people were
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  being exploited through country lines rather than organized, group based
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  child sexual exploitation. These statements were made despite the Metro
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  Police holding reports of young girls be implied with alcohol
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  and drugs and then raped by groups of men in
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  hotels and other locations across the capitol. A Daily Express
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  in investigation revealed that Khan had direct access to hm
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  Inspectorate of Constabulary detailing exactly these patterns of offending. He
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  read the files, yet continued to deny the existence of
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  grooming gangs in public. Shadow Home Secretary Chris Philip MP
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  has accused Kahan of facilitating a cover up, and other
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  politicians stated that both the mayor and the Metropolitan Police
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  had been denying grooming gangs in London. Campaigners, including whistleblower
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  Maggie Oliver and Chris Wilde, described the capital as the
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  last bastion of denial and warned that the scale of
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  abuse there was more catastrophic than anywhere else in the country.
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  The evidence now emerging confirms their warnings. In October of
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  twenty twenty five, the Metropolitan Police announced a review of
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  nine thousand child sexual exploitation cases. The National Crime Agency
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  launched Operation Beaconport to examine thousands more files nationwide after
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  initial assessments found human errors, misslines of inquiry and cases
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  wrongly dropped. London forms a significant part of this backlog.
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  A former Metro Police detective has described industrial scale child
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  prostitution and grooming in the capitol, with authorities aware but
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  apting for inaction due to a mixture of incompetence, laziness
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  and corruption. London has the largest Muslim population in Britain,
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  con relies on significant electoral support from those communities, as
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  well as having an ethno religious mi to protect the
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  public reputation of Pakistani Muslims. In particular, widespread acknowledgment of
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  organized networks of predominantly Pakistani Muslim men targeting vulnerable white
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  girls would have shattered the narrative of community cohesion that
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  success of London administrations none more than cons have promoted
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  as for others in authority, Fears of being labeled racist
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  paralyzed the Metro Police and City Hall in the same
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  way it did the Rotterham and Rochdell before them. One
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  anonymous whistleblower told us that boys as well as girls
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  aren't especially vulnerable target for criminal gangs typically Albanian, Somali
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  or Turkish operating in the Capitol. Yet relevant bodies still
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  refused to collect data on ethnicity, willfully rendering themselves blind
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  to the very behavioral patterns that are supposed to aid
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  law enforcement in its pursuit of justice. The Metro Police review,
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  the National Crime Agency operation and the witness accounts pouring
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  in prove that group based child's sexual exploitation has thrived
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  in our capital city. This inquiry records the failure without reservation.
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  Con and his senior leadership of the Metro Police must
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  answer for their role in this scandal. Until the Capital
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  confronts the truth with the same rigor now demanded elsewhere,
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  the children of London remain at risk and the state
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  remains complicit. All right, folks, we're gonna wrap up right
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  here and in the next episode dealing with the topic,
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  we're gonna get to victim testimony. All the information that
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  goes with this episode can be found in the description box.