The Board of Directors and Executive Officers of Hindu Council UK strongly condemn the evil crimes done by the sexual-grooming gangs. It is a matter of great concern that groups of men groom children and girls to sexually abuse them.
In January 2011, the conspiracy of silence about the mass grooming of girls in some UK towns was revealed by the Times. Three years later the first inquiry into this scandal found that about 1400 children fell victim to predators in one English town alone.
It is the prime responsibility of the Government to safeguard and protect children and young people against these heinous crimes. It is high time the UK criminal justice system stops failing the vulnerable young girls getting victimised by predatory men. The scandal of these grooming gangs should be fully investigated, and the Home Office adopt a consistent way of tracking the disgusting and vile practice. We request the Government to fully investigate the sexual grooming of girls across the UK by holding a national public inquiry, so that efforts can be made to bring justice to the victims, if it can ever be fully done considering the lasting effects of this trauma on the children, young girls and their parents.
Hindu Council UK has long campaigned to the media for not using the word ‘Asian’ to describe these gangs as our Hindu and Sikh girls were also their victims and given the present lash-back on the ‘X’ platform, the BBC, finally last evening, refrained from using the word Asian in their news reports for a more accurate description of the gangs, but we are dismayed that the Prime Minister still chose to whitewash this heinous atrocity with the word ‘Asian’ in his press conference yesterday.
Krishna Bhan
Chair
Hindu Council UK