The UK Minister of Interior apologizes a gang scandal that creates children

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Interior Minister Evit Cooper has issued an “unambiguous apology” due to the failure of the British state to protect young girls from predatory gangs for 16 years, as she confirmed a full national investigation into the scandal.

Cooper She said that she would accept all the 12 recommendations of a widespread achievement by Baroneh Louise Casey, who discussed the role of race in the scandal. A large percentage of the perpetrators was men of Asian ethnic backgrounds.

In the future, the Minister of the Interior said that there will be an official condition for ethnic and sexual data that will be registered in cases of sexual exploitation of children, and called for failure to act decisively against gangs of gangs “a stigma for our society.”

She said that the 197 -page Casey report, which was published on Monday, was “cursed”, as it revealed “deep -rooted institutional failures” and failed to “treat children as children”.

Cooper said that some of the authorities were worried about “to see it as societal tensions or narrowing,” and that Casey discovered a “schedule of failure from 2009-2025”.

The review found that the perpetrators’ race was “removed from” and is still registered for two thirds of the perpetrators, which prevents an accurate evaluation of the connected data at the national level.

Local inquiries in the sexual exploitation of children by groups of men had previously happened in Birmingham, Oldham, Oxfordshire, Rothsdale, Roharham and Talford.

Seven men were recently condemned to use two sexual girls between 2001 and 2006 in Rocheel, both of which came from weak backgrounds and was known for social services.

Despite the lack of national data, the current evidence showed “non -proportional numbers” for men from Asian ethnic backgrounds among the suspects as well as their convicted perpetrators.

Casey added the failure to address the questions related to the sweat of the perpetrators have done “harm to the victims.”

Downting Street said that Sir Kerr Starmer believes that “the scandal of the sedation was one of the greatest failures in the history of our country,” but the Prime Minister was severely criticized for his failure to announce urgent national investigation.

Kimi Badnouch, conservative leader, said that Starmer and Cooper had committed an “other turn” and that the Prime Minister was guilty of “an extraordinary failure of leadership.”

In January, Starmer accused opposition deputies who are calling for a national investigation of “jumping on a vehicle” and “exaggerating what the far right says.” Elon Musk, the American billionaire, raised the scandal in a series of posts on X.

In response to a question about whether Starmer has regretted the Conservative and Reform Party in the United Kingdom, calling for a national investigation in January, Downing Street said that his “cart” comments aimed at “ministers from the previous government who sat in office for years and did nothing to address this scandal.”

No. 10 said that the national investigation will be Time Limited and depends on the work carried out by Alexis Jay, who conducted an independent investigation into sexual assault on children. Her work included strands on gangs.

But Starmer’s spokesman said that the new investigation “will look specifically to how young girls failed very badly by various agencies at the local level, which enhances the commitment we were exposed to at the beginning of this year to implement local inquiries.”

“By preparing a new investigation under the Inquiries Law with legal authorities to force witnesses, local authorities and institutions that fail to act to protect youth will not be able to hide and will be finally kept to take their actions.”