A leading UK journalist has expressed outrage after a Wikipedia page dedicated to the grooming gangs scandal in which approximately 1,400 girls were abused over decades was changed.
As Gript previously reported, thousands of girls in the UK were drugged, raped, trafficked, and beaten by groups which were “almost exclusively” comprised of Muslim men, mostly of Pakistani origin according to former Greater Manchester Police detective turned whistle-blower, Maggie Oliver.
Speaking to Gript, journalist Charlie Peters – who has reportedly extensively on the grooming gangs scandal and worked closely with numerous victims – said, “The state-endorsed narrative is that the grooming gangs scandal is a right-wing myth propagated by extremists, with a 2020 Home Office report released under Priti Patel’s leadership facilitating much of that agenda.”
“The grooming gangs Wikipedia article has been maliciously edited to describe it as a “moral panic” propagated by the ‘far-right.’ This false account of the scandal is helping to keep the public and politicians ignorant about what happened and what needs to be done.”
A page formally titled “Muslim grooming gangs in the UK” was changed to say that the scandal, which rocked both the political establishment and the UK police force, was a “moral panic” propagated by the “far right”.
The introductory paragraph of the page was changed to read, “Muslim grooming gang panic is a moral panic alleging that Asian (specifically South Asian, Pakistani and Muslim) men are sexually abusing young White girls in the United Kingdom.”
Peters, who spent a year making a documentary on the issue entitled Grooming Gangs: Britain’s Secret Shame, continued, “There are many travesties yet to be revealed”, saying that the “real data of the criminal networks and their backgrounds has yet to be delivered.”
“Justice for thousands of victims has not been handed down. But so long as the reality of the situation is muddied by these misrepresentations, truth and justice will be delayed,” he said,
The grooming gangs scandal first came to prominence due to the reporting of journalist Andew Norfolk with regard to abuse which took place over decades in South Yorkshire and Rotherham.
Since then abuse rings predominantly made up of British Pakistani Muslims have been uncovered in Telford, Rochdale, Newcastle, Oxford and Bristol.
The move has also sparked outrage among survivors of abuse by grooming gangs.
GB News reported the reaction of grooming gang survivors to the changes made to the Wikipedia page as, “It was a scandal where over 1400 children were raped and trafficked around England. I don’t see how they can class it as a ‘moral panic’ when every authority would not act because of racial tension.”
The woman, who spoke on condition of anonymity said, “It was swept under the carpet. It’s a scandal and it always will be, no matter what some people who are trying to muddy the waters say.”
Another survivor identified by the pseudonym Elizabeth said that that change was “repulsive”.
“Once again we are reacting to people who are more interested in promoting political correctness and lies about the abuse that we suffered rather than owning up to the reality of what happened.”
She said that the statistics on grooming gang offenders “are obvious to everyone who believes in the truth: the vast majority of grooming gang perpetrators are of South Asian descent, particularly Pakistani. They abused us because they saw us white girls as easy victims. Denying this is repulsive.”
This article, written by Fatima Gunning, was originally published by Gript on October 10, 2024. It appears here with kind permission.
