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It’s not “history”, Shabana.
I’m from Telford. I was groomed and abused by different men from the age of 5.
I’ve seen countless little girls victimised by Pakistani-Muslim grooming gangs in my hometown.
IT’S STILL GOING ON.
I went on national TV to say that little girls are still being raped and tortured by Pakistani-Muslim gangs.
The next day, the police came banging on my door to threaten me into silence for speaking out.
Growing up, we knew which takeaways were dodgy, which taxi companies were controlled by the Pakistani-Muslim gangs, which estates and high streets not to walk through alone or avoid altogether.
It’s an open secret.
And your government is complicit.
It is still happening in towns and cities across the UK. Little girls are being subjected to the worst abuse imaginable, at the hands of men who know they can get away with it.
Nothing has changed.
You are still turning a blind eye despite decades of undeniable evidence.
Politicians like you are trying to sweep the scandal under the carpet, sabotaging the National Inquiry at every turn so that they can save their own skins.
And little girls are still being sacrificed at the altar of multiculturalism and traded for votes.
Decades later.
The same old story.
You may not have shoved little girls into taxis or plied them with vapes himself, but you and your entire government are just as guilty as if you had.
And I, for one, refuse to be silenced or placated by the very people who have spent decades discrediting victims and survivors like me.
Shabana Mahmood MP@ShabanaMahmood
The grooming gangs’ scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country’s history. The independent national Inquiry will now begin its crucial work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred. There will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes.
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