Mick Hartley

Powerful testimony here.

I am 65 years old. I write as a retired lawyer with approximately 35 years experience of working in the child protection field in both the public and private sectors.

I worked for three of the largest local authorities in the country, advising social workers, teachers, police officers, health care staff and other professionals dedicated to safeguarding children from all forms of abuse.

I conducted and had responsibility for hundreds and hundreds, possibly thousands, of child care cases in all levels of court up to and including the Court of Appeal.…

From my direct experience, conversations with fellow professionals and a detailed knowledge of enquiries, reports and statistics, the following things are obvious to anyone who is not compromised by political allegiance.

1. The majority of child sexual abuse is perpetrated by males who are close family members, relatives, friends or people in positions of power or trust.
2. This pattern exists worldwide and irrespective, generally, of race or culture.
3. Inevitably, within a predominantly white culture, the majority of child sexual abusers will be white. In fact, most child rapes are perpetrated by a person of the same ethnicity and culture as the victim.
4. This fact has been deliberately misrepresented in the UK to obscure the patterns of group-organised child sexual rape and exploitation by conflating two entirely different forms of child rape with very different contexts and motivations.
5. In the UK, most rape gangs are not comprised of Pakistani Muslims, but proportionately, and especially in specific areas of the country, Pakistani Muslims are grossly over-represented in the statistics.
6. Pakistani Muslim gangs are the only demographic where race and ethnicity have been the motivating factors for criminality being ignored.
7. ‘Fear of racism’ has been a major factor in these crimes being ignored and covered up. So has collaboration between the Muslim community, the police, social workers and politicians, especially Labour ones.
8. The victims of these utterly vile and reprehensible crimes have been called sluts, slags, prostitutes and racists by the very professionals charged with their protection, claims eagerly embraced and amplified by the left, including some who would identify as feminists.
9. The Labour Party has failed these young girls, failed their families and communities, failed law-abiding Muslims and failed the nation by refusing to engage with and vigorously pursue a full, open and independent public enquiry. It has done so because of its over-reliance on the Muslim vote in key constituencies of national and local importance and its otherwise unfathomable love affair with a grossly misogynistic and homophobic religious and political movement.
10. In so doing, it has paved the way for the racist right to fill the moral vacuum it has created by its cowardice.