The news that in the last 3 years alone ....
.... the UK police have investigated over 645 reported rapes, amongst over 5,500 reported sexual assaults in our schools since 2012, is almost not shocking. Its the fact that the police believe this is just the tip of the iceberg that's shocking.
The vast majority of allegations, nearly 4,000 of them, were physical sexual assaults, while the remainder included offences such as making explicit images, exposure or voyeurism. At least a fifth were offences carried out by other pupils, and a quarter of victims, some 1,500 children, were under the age of 13, and in some cases both the victims and suspects were as young as five.
One offender pleaded guilty to sexual assault, and initially received an absolute discharge by the courts, but was subsequently given a whole year’s community service, and put on the sex offenders’ register after an appeal ... that's apparently considered justice in Britain today.
But what is truly shocking is that in the wake of the Jimmy Saville sex crimes scandal, and the mass gang sexual grooming of vulnerable girls, by Pakistani origin males in the UK, you would think that covering matters like this up, would be a thing of the past. However, the fact that despite the incredibly large numbers of victims involved in just the 3 years up to 2016 (and which police then believed to be just the tip of the iceberg), this fact only came to light as a result of a Freedom of Information request, and suggests that a policy of official cover-up is still being practised by local authorities and the police.
The initial reports suggest that very few of these reported sex assaults actually resulted in criminal prosecutions, or even any social services action for those children below the age of criminal responsibility (10 years old in the UK). The Department for Education said that a total of 60 children in England were expelled for sexual misconduct in schools in 2013-14, and that there were no exclusions in Wales and Scotland .... that sounds about right for the sort of inaction councils take.
I would be prepared to bet that this low number of expulsions, and prosecutions, means that there was little or no social services action taken against the alleged offenders, and that rather it was the victims who were 'punished' by the LEA's by being relocated to other schools after the attacks were reported. I also have a suspicion that any racial element in these attacks has been covered over, because it was a BBC request information request, and that would be just too uncomfortable for them to report on.
I have remarked before that I am truly glad I will not be around when this all comes home to roost, because what a terrible mess its going to be.
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.... the UK police have investigated over 645 reported rapes, amongst over 5,500 reported sexual assaults in our schools since 2012, is almost not shocking. Its the fact that the police believe this is just the tip of the iceberg that's shocking.
The vast majority of allegations, nearly 4,000 of them, were physical sexual assaults, while the remainder included offences such as making explicit images, exposure or voyeurism. At least a fifth were offences carried out by other pupils, and a quarter of victims, some 1,500 children, were under the age of 13, and in some cases both the victims and suspects were as young as five.
One offender pleaded guilty to sexual assault, and initially received an absolute discharge by the courts, but was subsequently given a whole year’s community service, and put on the sex offenders’ register after an appeal ... that's apparently considered justice in Britain today.
But what is truly shocking is that in the wake of the Jimmy Saville sex crimes scandal, and the mass gang sexual grooming of vulnerable girls, by Pakistani origin males in the UK, you would think that covering matters like this up, would be a thing of the past. However, the fact that despite the incredibly large numbers of victims involved in just the 3 years up to 2016 (and which police then believed to be just the tip of the iceberg), this fact only came to light as a result of a Freedom of Information request, and suggests that a policy of official cover-up is still being practised by local authorities and the police.
The initial reports suggest that very few of these reported sex assaults actually resulted in criminal prosecutions, or even any social services action for those children below the age of criminal responsibility (10 years old in the UK). The Department for Education said that a total of 60 children in England were expelled for sexual misconduct in schools in 2013-14, and that there were no exclusions in Wales and Scotland .... that sounds about right for the sort of inaction councils take.
I would be prepared to bet that this low number of expulsions, and prosecutions, means that there was little or no social services action taken against the alleged offenders, and that rather it was the victims who were 'punished' by the LEA's by being relocated to other schools after the attacks were reported. I also have a suspicion that any racial element in these attacks has been covered over, because it was a BBC request information request, and that would be just too uncomfortable for them to report on.
I have remarked before that I am truly glad I will not be around when this all comes home to roost, because what a terrible mess its going to be.
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