The government of the United Kingdom has announced that for the first time, Police will be obliged to collect data about the ethnicity and nationality of suspects in all cases of Sexual abuse and exploitation of children.
The measure takes place after the overwhelming conclusions of the independent assessment led by the baroness Louise Caseywho identified a “over -representation“From men of Asian descent, in particular of origin PakistaniAmong the suspects in different regions of the country.
Casey’s report, based on data from areas such as Greater Manchester, West Yorkshire and South Yorkshire, has underlined the persistent shortcomings in collecting data throughout the country, as it has The guardian.
Moreover, he criticized that some public authorities deliberately chose it because they did not take into account the ethnic group of criminals For fear of being accused of racismWhat has contributed to decades of institutional negligence.
“Blindness, ignorance, prejudices, defensive attitude and even the good intentions have played their role in this collective failure,” said the assessment.
Minister of the Interior, Yvette Cooperpresented the measures in the British Parliament and the victims offered unconditional apologies in the name of successive governments.
“These findings are deeply disturbing, but the most disturbing thing is that many are not new. We have lost more than a decade and that must end now“, He explained.
According to Cooper, ignoring the problem has only been able to use the criminal actions of a minority to stigmatize entire communities.
“The vast majority of people of British, Asian and Pakistani descent is shocked by these crimes And they support that the responsible person is being prosecuted with all the weight of the law, “he added.
The Labor Government, which the 12 reviews of the reviewhas also promised to set up a national committee of inquiry with legal powers to revise historical cases of group abuse.
This temporary committee will supervise and coordinate the local investigation that had so far been stopped by the resistance of some local agencies.
He National Crime Agency (NCA), Maximum Criminal Investigation Agency in the country, will lead this national effort to reopen things that have been closed earlier or insufficiently investigated.
To date, more than 800 cases They have been identified for their formal assessment, a figure that is expected to be larger than a thousand in the coming weeks.
One of the extra legislative reforms are the Automatic exclusion of the ash system for everyone who has been convicted of sexual crimesAfter cases of suspects who had asked to have requested refuge in the country.
Likewise, the legislation will become so hard Adult men who have sex with children between 13 and 15 years are accused of the most serious views of rape.
Cooper openly criticized the institutions that for decades “looked elsewhere”, while younger than 10 years were drugged, poisoned with alcohol and brutally violated by predatory works.
“These mean perpetrators, used to the authorities not to intervene, should not have any place to hide,” he said.
The Ministry of the Interior will also promote new research into cultural and social factors that feed the sexual exploitation of minors, misogyny and violence against women and girls, with the aim of preventing these crimes in the future.
This political turn comes after months of growing public and media pressure on the government of Keir Starmer, who has finally admitted to the demands of victims, civil organizations and opposition parties to tackle systemic failures in the protection of childhood against sexual abuse networks.
