Finally, officers did not challenge a Crown Prosecution Service decision not to prosecute. He said the investigation was at "an extremely sensitive stage" and street grooming was the force's top priority, "a bigger priority than gun crime".
L'Opération Doublet a été lancée en même temps qu'une enquête traitant d'abus psychologiques et sexuels sur mineurs dans la région. The ringleader, 59-year-old Shabir Ahmed, claimed the girls were "prostitutes" who had been running a "business empire" and it was all "white lies". [36] "The citations are correct but they have been taken out of context," Cockbain told The Independent; "Nor do they acknowledge the small sample size of the original research, which focused on just two large cases." [33] The inquiry issued its final report in November 2013. [23] Suggestions emerged that police and social work departments failed to act when details of the gang emerged for fear of appearing racist, and vulnerable white teenagers being groomed by Pakistani men were ignored. L'organisation définit le grooming sur mineurs comme toute situation où un enfant ou une jeune personne reçoit un cadeau en échange de faveurs sexuelles. » Elle a décrit le cas de Rochdale comme « encore plus écœurant » que des cas de filles livrées à des gangs de rue, car les agresseurs « étaient des hommes d'âge mûr, pour certains des professeurs d'éducation religieuse ou des entrepreneurs, avec de jeunes familles à leur charge[42].», Nazir Afzal, qui en tant que procureur en chef du CPS nouvellement nommé a décidé d'amener l'affaire devant la cour, a déclaré que le genre et non l'ethnie, était le nœud du problème : « il n'existe pas de communauté où les filles ne sont pas vulnérables aux abus sexuels et c'est un fait[43].», Des protestataires d'organisations d'extrême droite, le Parti national britannique et la Ligue de défense anglaise, ont tenu des manifestations avec des bannières affichant entre autres « les réfugiés ne sont pas les bienvenus[44].». On one occasion he ordered a girl aged 15 to have sex with Kabeer Hassan, as a "treat" for his birthday — Hassan then raped the girl himself. Despite one victim going to the police in 2008 to report the child grooming, the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) decided not to prosecute two men, invoking the witness's lack of credibility. [33], Hilary Willmer, representing a Leeds-based support group for parents of sexually exploited girls, the Coalition for the Removal of Pimping (Crop), was quoted as saying "The vast majority [of] perpetrators are Pakistani Asians",[36] with sources inside Crop claiming a percentage as high as 80 per cent although, The Independent said that "Kurdish, Romanian and Albanian gangs were also involved". She added: "The danger with saying that the problem is with one ethnicity is that then people will only be on the lookout for that group – and will risk missing other threats. L'enquête du bureau de la commission anglaise pour la protection de l'enfance, datée de novembre 2012 et consignée dans un rapport intitulé I thought I was the only one. The networks of men come from different backgrounds: in the North and Midlands many have been British Asians; in Devon it was white men; in Bath and Bristol, Afro-Caribbeans; in London, all ethnic mixes, whites, Iraqis, Kurds, Afghans, Somalis.” She noted that white male predators on the street tend to work alone.