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excellent coverage and persistence. The extensive history of this case is new to me. That these girls and mothers and advocates have been treated this way and for so long is criminal.

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Thank you, Julie! You are a voice of reason and empathy in this ocean of screams, threats, name-callings and insults. It is always so reassuring to read you, and it feels like somebody, somewhere, knows how the world turns, and as long as we can hear this voice, everything will be all right.

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Male violence towards females is just the everyday roadkill of patriarchy. We're so conditioned to look away that it's not newsworthy unless it can be used by some other narrative or cause like racism. Otherwise it's just airing dirty laundry.

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The Islamic faith does authorise rape, with the right hand possesses verse, and the men did shout out Allah Akbar when they were sentenced. Racism is a small matter next to child rape, but was blown out of proportion, which delayed justice by a decade or so, which is scandalous. To protect the vulnerable girls, you should deport that whole demographic of Pakistani Muslims. There’s a reason why India partitioned it’s country, to separate themselves from that demographic. Racism is a small matter, sex trafficking is right at the other end of the scale. Get rid of them!

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In Sydney Australia's northern beach suburbs during the '70s and '80s school teachers were grooming and sharing school girls in an abuse ring that very much resembles Britain's grooming gangs. No Muslims just misogynists in a blokey football culture. One teacher was recently convicted of the abuse but was also recently gaoled for murdering his wife in 1982 so he could install his schoolgirl victim in his family home. Staggering.

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My understanding is that when you crunch the numbers, men from Pakistani background, particularly Mirpur, were vastly over-represented, hence the focus on "pakistani grooming gangs." Was Andrew Tate hanging around men from that background during that time? I think so, going by what he himself said.

How accurate would you say her perspective is?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V47p_4_eTZk

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