STORY – If the horror could last for more than thirty years, it is because of the hallucinating passivity of the authorities, who feared that an investigation would stir up racial tensions.
In London
Figures like facts make you dizzy and nauseated. For some thirty years, more than a thousand children have been sexually abused and exploited in the town of Telford, in central England. A tragedy that was able to continue and take on this magnitude because the local authorities preferred to close their eyes, for fear of fueling racial tensions.
The survey, the results of which have just been made public, was launched in 2018 after the publication of an investigative article by the Sunday Mirror. And it unfortunately confirms the horror described by the newspaper. The facts go back to the end of the 1980s.Countless children have been sexually abused and raped, deliberately humiliated and degraded. And they were shared and trafficked“said Tom Crowther, the president of the investigation.
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