New in PJ Media:
Wednesday marked twenty years since the fateful day that a fourteen-year-old girl in the seaside English resort town of Blackpool went missing; Charlene Downes was never seen again, and authorities believe she was murdered. As the ghastly story of what happened to her unfolded, it became appallingly clear that she was only one of thousands of British girls who had suffered a least some of the terrible ordeal she went through before she was killed. Yet even now that two decades have passed, Britain still hasn’t fully faced what happened to Charlene and the other victims or taken any serious steps to prevent what happened to them from happening to any young girl ever again.
The National Pulse reported Wednesday that Charlene Downes “disappeared after falling victim to Muslim groomers in the seaside resort of Blackpool.” Two owners of a Blackpool kebab shop, Iyad Albattikhi and Mohammed Raveshi, were put on trial for her murder, but Charlene’s grieving family would receive no justice: neither Albattikhi nor Raveshi nor anyone else was ever convicted of murdering Charlene. Her brother was the only person ever convicted in connection with the case: he assaulted Albattikhi after recordings surfaced showing him “saying she had been ‘chopped up’ and her body had ‘gone in the kebabs.’”
As if all that weren’t bad enough, on Thursday, The Publica added more piquant details: “the cases against them were dropped after police were accused of having handled the investigation ‘unprofessionally.’ The men were ultimately paid over $420,000 USD each in compensation.”
Yet as horrific as it was in every detail, Charlene’s case was only one of many similar cases. The Publica added that “during the investigation into Downes’ murder, it was discovered that up to 60 girls in their early teens had been groomed and sexually abused by men in the town.”
That was just in Blackpool; investigators have found that gangs made up overwhelmingly of Pakistani Muslim men victimized over a thousand girls in the town of Telford, and 1,400 in the town of Rotherham. And this “grooming gang” activity, as it came to be known, went on all over Britain; there could be tens of thousands of victims — or even more than that.
Yet hardly any of the perpetrators were prosecuted: “Earlier this year, GB News reporter Charlie Peters released a documentary on the grooming gang phenomenon, revealing that in the years between 1997 and 2017, 1 in every 1,700 Pakistani men in the country were prosecuted for their participation in such gangs. In some cities, the figure was as high as 1 in 73.”
Why did so many of these suspected pedophile rapists escape prosecution? Because British police and other authorities were terrified of being called “racist” or “Islamophobic.”
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John Allan says
Mr Spencer REALLY needs to concern himself with HIS country!
Let US worry about ours!
W Pappas says
It seems that somebody needs to worry about your country because you guys sure don’t seem to. Keep this up and you will be Engladastan before you know it.
Tatanka says
No kidding!.
Hoi Polloi says
Why are you so angry that people are concerned about this barbarism and the lack of police action? The agreed upon narrative I hear so often is that anyone who reports this savagery should be dealt with harshly. The savages, not so much. Why so little warmth or concern for the girls ground under the islamic menace?
Barbara says
A Muslim male is allowed to rape and murder. If the girl’s father, brother, tries to protect her he is a bigot. This double standard is unconscionable. Why is it the politician, police, etc. are afraid of being called a name. Are the Bristish men that cowardly?
The government is bigoted and hypocritical. The young woman are the victims and that is acceptable.? !
Serial rapists are never stopped. Stopping them seems also not to be acceptable.
Why are the bureaucratic politicians so unwilling to protect their women?
Why is the Royal Family not speaking out in protection of the women?
Hoi Polloi says
Why are those responsible so afraid of being called a name? Indeed, I have asked this often and I’m amazed they ever thought this was a viable excuse.
Joe Kool says
It appears that the “Royal” family is good friends with the muslims, King Charles was in some kind of scandal after it was reported that he had millions of pounds in cash in a bag from a Saudi official, ( this was a few years ago) this must have been swept under the rug, and I havent seen any more mention about it.
Hoi Polloi says
Yes, Charles and Camilla are known to have taken cash and jewels and yes, funny how that story just died. A BHO associate claims to have refused sacks of jewels.
lez says
What’s the problem John Allen??? If you don’t like the article, don’t read it! Spencer is an author and blogger and can comment on whatever he chooses. He writes the truth about some horrible US & world events that others choose to gloss over.
Why not read the article and decide if it worrying or “someone else’s problem”. Please let me know, I would love to hear your logic.
James Lincoln says
Robert Spencer is concerned about worldwide jihad, not just how it affects the United States.
So should you, John.
somehistory says
James, I believe John has some idea that the U.K.’s problems with islam are no body’s business but his. He is not the only person coming to this site who lives there. The others haven’t been complaining about Mr. Spencer’s interest.
libertyORdeath says
The only reason Mr. Spencer MUST report on this is because people like John will not. He sits by as a “conservative” government allows England to be completely conquered by an invading foreign army, but gets real active when someone points it out.
They could never have invaded and tortured their children without the silence and complicity of people like John. But his big issue is that an American points it out. Cuckservatism in a nutshell.
Joe Kool says
When do you plan on “worrying” about your country?