National Issue of Grooming & Sexual Exploitation...

The Sikh Awareness Society will be doing a talk about the recent grooming and exploitation cases which have become a major issue in the Sikh community. This is an issue which is not only taking place in Leicester, it is happening on a national level.

Date: Friday 25th January 2013
Venue:  Guru Teg Bahadur Gurdwara, East Park Road, Leicester
Time: 6pm

  

About Sikh Awareness Society:

The Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) was established in 1998 amongst growing concerns of the 'grooming' of our youth. In Britain today Sikh youth are still actively targeted on the basis of their religion and history. This historically linked hate-crime causes much emotional distress to the families involved with the majority of these cases ending up in abuse. Under common Punjabi mentality, these issues are still considered 'taboo' and are rarely addressed by the Gurdwara Sahibs, and Sikh community leaders. Therefore the victims of this hate-crime tend to suffer in silence. The SAS was set up to deal with these issues.

To get in touch with SAS or for more information:
Website: www.sasorg.co.uk
Email: sas.helpline@googlemail.com


News articles in chronological order:

• Daily Mail: Social services receptionist handed personal file of child rape victim to her alleged abusers as part of campaign to de-rail trial of 'paedophile ring' (3/09/13)
• Oldham Evening Chronical: Sex beast carved his name into girls’ arms (3/09/13)
• Sikh24: Muslim Men Jailed for Exploiting British Sikh School Girl (3/09/13)
• BBC: British Sikh girls exposed to sexual grooming by gangs (2/09/13)
• International Business Times: Muslim Rape Gangs Targeting Sikh Children, Says BBC's Inside Out Documentary (2/09/13)
• The Mirror: Boy, 16, arrested as part of police investigation into child sexual exploitation in Burnley, Lancashire (7/08/13)
• BBC News: Three arrests in Burnley child grooming inquiry (7/08/13)
• Buckinghamshire Examiner: Duo in court on 'grooming' charges (6/08/13)
• Lancashire Telegraph: Teacher from Blackburn school on pupil sex attack charges (5/08/13)
• BBC News: Five in court over Coventry sexual exploitation (2/08/13)
• Coventry Telegraph: Ten charged in Coventry 'sex gang' probe (2/08/13)
• Sikh 24: Leicester Muslim Pedophile Ring Groomed Sikh Girls (30/07/13)
• BBC News:  Leicester child prostitution trial: 'Other Sikh girls' involved with men (30/07/13)
• Leicester Mercury:  Men 'exploited vulnerable teenager', court told (30/07/13)
• Lancashire Telegraph: Grooming victim got 350 phone threats from Brierfield men (19/07/13)
• Lancashire Telegraph:  Two years for student who had sex with Pendle school girl under a bridge (17/07/13)
• Telegraph and Argus: Great Horton barber jailed for trying to rape boy (11/07/13)
• Peterborough Telegraph: Peterborough man who had sex with 15-year-old girl jailed (10/07/13)
• Telegraph and Argus:  Internet groomer rapist is jailed for six and a half years (6/07/13)
• Leicester Mercury: Care home worker found guilty of raping vulnerable boy (4/07/13)
• Lancashire Telegraph: Religious teacher from Blackburn charged with indecently assaulting girl (21/06/13)
• The Examiner: Muslim activist charged with raping 12-year-old girl in Washington (25/05/13)
• Daily Mail: Teenage girl raped on way home to family's £2.5m mansion by  serial offender after getting stranded outside nightclub (31/05/13) 
• Channel 4 Dispatches: The Hunt for Britain's Sex Gangs (23/05/13)
• Bucks Free Press: Ribbon trial: Girl tells jurors how she was allegedly groomed and abused (23/05/13)
• BBC News: High Wycombe grooming case: Girl 'repeatedly raped by group' (22/05/13) 
• Oxford Mail: Minister calls on Pakistani community to tackle grooming (21/05/13)
• Daily Mail: Mother of Oxford grooming sex gang pair blames their VICTIMS: She says schoolgirls 'should have been playing with toys'  (19/05/13)
• The Express: Imam: ‘Sack liberal cowards’ (19/05/13)
• Daily Mirror: Police probe at least 54 more evil child sex grooming gangs (19/05/13)
• The Telegraph: Pakistani community must tackle grooming gangs, justice minister insists (17/05/13)
• The Telegraph: ‘Imams promote grooming rings’, Muslim leader claims (16/05/13)
• Daily Telegraph: Oxford grooming gang: We will regret ignoring Asian thugs who target white girls (15/05/13)
• BBC News: "You preyed on girls because they were not part of your community or religion" - Judge Gerald Clifton (11/05/13)
• Telegraph and Argus:  'Depraved' pair locked up for grooming girl, 13, for sex (9/05/13
• Mirror:  Britain facing a rape gang epidemic with gangs targetting children's homes for their victims  (7/03/13)
• Telegraph and Argus:  Sex groomer jailed for attacks on vulnerable women (26/03/13)
• Daily Mail: 'I've had her bro, you can have her': Men 'groomed teenage girl  from the age of 12 before raping her in drug den' (19/03/13)
• Telegraph and Argus: 54 arrested in crackdown on grooming of young girls for sex (11/03/13)
• Daily Mail: Muslim abuser who 'didn't know' that sex with a girl of 13 was illegal is spared jail (25/01/13)
• This is Leicestershire: Five men appear in Leicester court over sex offences (23/01/13)
• Sky News: Sex Ring Trial: Victim Feared Being Shot (21/01/13)
• Sikh24:  Underage Sexual Grooming: Five Arrested in UK (19/01/13)
• The Sun: Sex ring abuser branded girl with his initial to tell others she belonged to him (18/01/13)
• Daily Mail: Sex slave aged 11 'branded with initial of her abuser': Child  trafficker 'used a heated hair pin to mark her as his property'  (18/01/13)
• BBC News: Oxford 'child sex ring committed depraved abuse' (15/01/13)
• Daily Mail: Gang of men 'who groomed young girls for sex drove terrified  victim, 14, to the woods at night and threatened to cut her head off'  (15/01/13)
• London Evening Standard: Sex gang accused of grooming ‘troubled’ underage girls (15/01/13)
• Sky News: Sex Ring Trial: Girls 'Endured Extreme Abuse' (15/01/13)
• Front Page Mag: Grappling With Muslim Sex Gangs in Britain (9/01/13)
• Bucks Free Press: Man charged with sexual offences in connection to social networking meeting (19/12/12)
• Daily Mail: 'The worst abuse I have seen in 40 years' Judge blasts GP who  sexually assaulted seven women patients as he jails him for 11 years  (18/12/12)
• The Enquirer:  Four men charged with child sex offences (14/12/12)
• Kent Online: Pervert Dover pensioner Majid Saleh and son Hussain Hamid, 21, jailed for sexually assaulting girl (04/12/12)
• Shropshire Star: Shropshire paedophile jailed for seven years (29/11/12)
• Shropshire Star: Telford ex-taxi driver jailed over sex with girl (28/11/12)
• This is Cornwall: Cornish girl, 15, was groomed on internet by London man Jahangir Karim who then had sex with her (23/11/12)
• The Times: Child grooming report ignores ethnicity issue, say angry critics (22/11/12)
• Lancashire Telegraph:Gang child sex abuse report ‘no surprise’ to Lancashire Police (22/11/12)
• BBC News: High Wycombe sex abuse inquiry leads to charges (21/11/12)
• Daily Mail: Eight men held after dawn raid on suspected Home Counties paedophile ring (21/11/12)
• Shropshire Star: Jobless Telford chef freed despite sex case jail sentence (17/11/12)
• The Sun: Anger at ‘politically correct’ sex gangs report (16/11/12)
• Daily Mail: Sex gangs report 'will play down threat of Pakistani men targeting white girls' (16/11/12)
• BBC News: Muslim gang 'white rape' claim prompts row (13/11/12)
• Yorkshire Post: Twelve men held in child grooming inquiry (3/11/12)
• Daily Mail: Council and police had 127 warnings about sex abuse in town where Asian gang raped dozens of children, finds damning report (27/09/12)
• The Telegraph: Jack Straw: Pakistani community must face up to grooming scandal following Rochdale case (27/09/12)
• The Telegraph: Muslim community in 'denial' about grooming rings, says Jack Straw (27/09/12)
• Daily Mail: Police turned a blind eye to sex grooming gangs for more than a decade, confidential files reveal  (25/09/12)
• Sikh24:  British Pakistani Man Charged for Multiple Accounts of Rape in Luton (23/09/12)
• Daily Mail: Drunk man who threatened to slit pregnant girlfriend’s throat  with Stanley knife unless she converted to Islam is spared jail  (14/09/12)
• BBC News: Telford brothers convicted of child sex offences (8/08/12)
• Asian Image: Sex ring leader jailed for raping Asian girl (2/08/12)
• Daily Mail:  The Fruit Shoot rapist: Bailed paedophile sexually assaulted  12-year-old girl after spiking her drink with VODKA (26/07/12)
• Telegraph & Argus:  Ten arrested after sexual grooming raids (14/07/12)
• ITV News: Four men charged with child abduction (15/07/12)
• Daily Mail: Girl, 14, 'groomed and raped at drugs den by gang of men who treated her with contempt'  (12/06/12)
• Daily Mail: Sex attacker answered mobile while holding down struggling victim and calmly said: ‘I’ll call you back in 15 minutes’ before continuing  vicious assault (8/06/12) 
• The Telegraph: It's time to stop using the word 'Asians' (08/06/12) 
• Panthic.org: 19 year-old Pakistani boy charged with assaulting Punjabi girl (30/05/12)
• The Times: Demand for debate on Pakistani men and sex grooming (16/05/12)
• BBC News: Complaints over use of 'Asian' label in grooming cases (16/05/12)
• The Sunday Guardian: UK Pakistanis raped, pimped white girls (13/05/12)
• Daily Mail: Child sex grooming case WAS about race and it would be a  'national scandal' if political correctness meant it was not stopped  sooner, says equality chief Trevor Phillips (13/05/12)
• Daily Mail: 'A small minority of Pakistani men DO believe white girls are fair game': Tory cabinet minister Baroness Warsi calls on mosques to act after Rochdale grooming gang scandal (18/05/12)
• The Independent: Asian grooming: why we need to talk about sex (11/05/12)
• Daily Mail: Asian grooming gang detectives hunt for FORTY more men who may have had sex with underage girls (10/05/12)
• Daily Mail: The Rochdale sex ring shows the horrific consequences of Britain's 'Islamophobia' witch-hunt  (9/05/12)
• The Guardian: Grooming offences committed mostly by Asian men, says ex-Barnardo's chief (9/05/12) 
• The Guardian: Rochdale gang jailed for total of 77 years for sexually exploiting young girls (9/05/12)
• The Telegraph: Rochdale grooming trial: Asian grooming gangs, the uncomfortable issue (8/05/12)
• The Telegraph: Rochdale grooming trial: Police accused of failing to  investigate paedophile gang for fear of appearing racist (8/05/12) 
• Channel 4 News: Nine men guilty of underage grooming (8/05/12)
• Daily Mail: Takeaway boss 'tried to recruit girls as young as 12 to work as prostitutes in his brothel' (24/04/12)
• The Mirror: 'Fresh meat': Takeaway boss 'ran brothel with hookers as young as 12' (24/04/12)
• Daily Mail: Pakistani students raped woman, 20, after she fell asleep on night bus on way home from night out (23/04/12)
• Daily Mail: Muslim gang jailed for kidnapping and raping two girls as part of their Eid celebrations (21/04/12)
• BBC News: Oxford child exploitaation inquiry sees 16th arrest (18/04/12)
• BBC News: Child prostitution inquiry: Six remanded on sex charges (24/03/12)
• Daily Mail: Police swoop on paedophile gang accused of modern-day slavery of  girls in care aged 11 'bought and sold' for sex (22/03/12)
• BBC News: Rochdale child-sex trial: 'Victim woke up being raped' (7/03/12)
• BBC News: Men 'plied girls with drink and drugs for sex' (21/02/12)
• Pendle Today: Sixth Brierfield man accused of ‘sex grooming’ of girl (14) (2/2/12) 
• Daily Mail: While Muslim sexual predators have been jailed, it is white  Britain's hypocritical values that are to blame (10/01/11)
• Metro: Exposed: Groomed For Sex was a brave and important documentary (5/12/11)
• BBC Three:  Exposed: Groomed for Sex (3/12/11)
• The Times: Murdered girl was victim of Pakistani sex grooming gang (2/2/11)
• Daily Mail: Girl of 17 plied white teenagers with vodka then forced them into sex with gangs of Asian men (3/8/11)
• Channel 4 News: Majority of grooming gangs are Asian, says report (29/06/11) 
• Telegraph: Nine go on trial for grooming and abusing young girls (15/06/11)
• BBC News: Blackburn Pakistani sex offender Zulfqar Hussain deported (29/05/11)
• Daily Mail: Police 'hid' abuse of 60 girls by Asian takeaway workers linked to murder of 14-year-old  (7/4/11)
• BBC News: Jack Straw: Some white girls are 'easy meat' for abuse (8/01/11)
• BBC News: Ringleaders of Derby sex abuse grooming gang jailed (7/1/11)
• Daily Mail: Top detective blasts 'culture of silence' that allows Asian sex  gangs to groom  white girls... because police and social services fear  being branded racist (5/01/11)
• BBC News: Derby sex gang convicted of grooming and abusing girls (24/11/10)
• Lancashire Evening Post: Jail for man who took teenager to hotel for sex  (2/9/10)
• Daily Mail: 'Sexual predators': Gang of Asian men weep as they are jailed for total of 32 years for abusing white girls as young as 12  (6/11/10)
• Daily Mail: How a public schoolgirl, 14, fell into the clutches of predatory  gangs who forced her to become a sex slave (4/08/10)
• The Citizen:  Suspended sentences for East Lancs men who abducted teens (5/6/10)
• BBC News: Trio jailed for photographed rape  (29/1/10)
• Yorkshire Post: Three men who groomed young girl for sex jailed for 18 years (18/07/09)
• Telegraph & Argus:  Six men on 31 sex charges 'after grooming girl' (5/06/09)
• Lancashire Telegraph: Accrington sex predator admits raping girl, 12 (29/11/08)
• BBC News: Pair jailed for abusing teenagers  (6/11/08)
• BBC Panorama Documentary: Teenage Sex For Sale: Panorama (27/03/08)
• BBC News: Group targets grooming of girls (5/12/07)
• Sarabha Panjab: Panjabi Girls Groomed for Sex! (26/03/07)
• Daily Mail: Police protect girls forced to convert to Islam (22/02/07)
• Sarabha Panjab: British Indian girls working in Pakistan Brothels (01/01/07)
• BBC News: Five charged over abuse inquiry (20/12/06)
• Telegraph and Argus: Man held in sexual grooming probe jailed (26/02/05)