ROTHERHAM ABUSE SCANDAL: Horrific reality of 'industrial scale' child grooming revealed

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Express.co.uk has pieced together shocking testimony from victims, campaigners and local residents in a large-scale investigation series being revealed throughout this week.

They all told us how police and the local council is still "failing" thousands of vulnerable girls.

It reveals how organised, criminal gangs of paedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire.

The men are predominantly from the city of Mirpur in the disputed region of Kashmir, on the border between Pakistan and India.

Today an investigation by this website lifts the lid on the shocking scale of abuse still going on in Rotherham, two years after a landmark report into the scandal ruled police and council workers had ignored the issue for fear of being branded racist.

Professor Alexis Jay's astonishing probe revealed at least 1,400 girls were groomed by sex gangs between 1997 and 2013, and unearthed a series of scandalous failings by local authorities.

A recent follow-up report, published by Professor John Drew in March, concluded that the police are now “adequately” tackling child grooming and that historic failures had been “isolated”.

But testimony, pieced together from independent sources, paints a starkly different picture of the authorities’ response.

A number of people who gave evidence to Professor Drew’s inquiry expressed open dismay at his findings and told us the grooming of girls is as bad now as it has ever been.

And many have told Express.co.uk of their outright anger the police and local council workers have not done more to crack down on the grooming gangs.

One victim, who we have called Ellie to protect her identity, said: "Raping of white girls by these men is still going on. Some, I know, have had to wait months before they're even asked to give a statement [to the police]. It's shockingly bad still."

In light of the scandalous failings of South Yorkshire Police (SYP) to tackle child sexual exploitation the Government sent in the National Crime Agency (NCA) to oversee the inquiry.

The investigation – called Operation Stovewood – is currently probing more than 7,000 lines of inquiry.

But Ellie said: "What have the National Crime Agency been doing for the last 18 months with their £10million? No arrests yet? We're feeling desperate and disheartened."

Another girl, going under the pseudonym Lizzie, said: "I know a few girls who have come forward recently and been told they are being racist and I know a lot that won't come forward and to be fair I can't blame them.

“Nothing has changed, not in the slightest. It's still the same scale as before."

I think we should maybe relocate this story to a government inaction thread since it has far more to do with that than with Islam.

I think we should maybe relocate this story to a government inaction thread since it has far more to do with that than with Islam.

What "action" do you advocate?

When stories about other non-Muslim sex traffickers and grooming gangs came up here you guys were like "oh we never said sex trafficking was exclusively a Muslim thing where did you get that idea?"

So then what does this have to do with Islam? I haven't seen anything to suggest that this gang was more religious or motivated by religion than any of the other sex traffickers out there.

When stories about other non-Muslim sex traffickers and grooming gangs came up here you guys were like "oh we never said sex trafficking was exclusively a Muslim thing where did you get that idea?"

So then what does this have to do with Islam? I haven't seen anything to suggest that this gang was more religious or motivated by religion than any of the other sex traffickers out there.

Well at least he is admitting that government's should be taking some sort of action when it comes to Muslim attacks on the west in its various forms