By Admin 
Today, on June 4, 2026, a British court sentenced 15 people to a total of 188 years in prison. This punishment was given in the case of sexual exploitation of girls, which shook the whole world. A victim said in the court that ‘my childhood was snatched away.’ On the same day, heart-wrenching testimonies of grooming gang victims were read out in the British Parliament, which revealed that a girl between the age of 13 and 16 was raped by more than 700 people. The other was locked in a dog cage and forced to have sex with the animal. The biggest thing is that most of the accused are of Pakistani origin and these are called grooming gangs…
Court’s decision and historic sentence of 188 years
A court in Rotherham sentenced 15 people for child sexual abuse under Operation Stovewood. All these culprits were from the British Pakistani community and they made white British girls aged between 13 to 16 years the victims of their lust for years. When the statements of the victims were read out in the court, the entire court room remained silent. The case was part of South Yorkshire Police’s Operation Stovewood, which exposed a grooming gang network that operated in Rotherham and surrounding areas from the late 1990s to 2010.
What are ‘grooming gangs’?
‘Grooming’ is a type of mental and emotional crime. The term is used in Britain to describe organized gangs that exploit children and teenagers:
- First they lure people into their trap by luring them with love, friendship, money or drugs.
- Then they control them by threatening them, kidnapping them or giving them drugs.
- Once the girl starts trusting them, then these people isolate her from her family and relatives and take her under their control.
- After this, these innocent people are gang-raped and sometimes they are also ‘trafficked’.
In many cases, animals were subjected to obscene acts on the victims so that they became so broken that they could never complain to anyone. In Britain, such gangs have been active in cities like Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford, Oxford and Bristol for the last two decades and have ruined the lives of thousands of innocent girls.
The identity of these gangs is that they do not carry out this brutality alone but as a group for a long time. There is no minimum age for this crime.
Those heart-wrenching testimonies and stories of the victims
Rupert Lowe read the testimonies of many victims in Parliament, in which humanity was put to shame. Here are some of the most shocking stories:
- One victim said that she was the victim of 600 to 700 different men between the age of 13 and 16. That means, in just three years, about 700 people raped her. This girl tells that she was taken to a new city every day, there was a line of people already present there and everyone used to rape her one by one.
- Another victim told that she and about 15-20 girls were kept locked in dog cages. One victim was forced into her room with dogs and bets were placed on whether they could rape her. She said, ‘Yes, I was raped by a dog.’
- A girl said that when she was about 12-13 years old, after raping her, one of the accused forcefully inserted an empty whiskey bottle inside her private parts and broke it. The mirror remained inside.
- While torturing the victims, their cross (religious symbol) was made fun of. According to one victim, white Christian girls were described as having ‘low value’ and ‘shallow morals’.
The crux of the matter: When governments and police remained silent
This is not just a story of brutality of some gangs. This is the story of failure of the entire system:
- Rotherham tales: A 2014 report by Professor Alexis Jay revealed that between 1997 and 2013, more than 1,400 children in the city of Rotherham were subjected to similar abuse. Some of them were only 11 years old. The most painful thing was that the police, children’s homes and local authorities were aware of it, yet they suppressed it and branded the victims as ‘prostitutes’.
- Lessons from Rochdale: In 2012, nine men of South Asian origin were convicted of raping 13-year-old girls. In another case in the same Rochdale in 2025, seven people were sentenced to a total of 174 years in prison for making two schoolgirls ‘sex slaves’.
KC report and government’s sleep
In January 2025, the British government asked Lewis Casey to conduct a national audit on this. Casey’s report, which came in June 2025, contained several shocking facts:
- Lack of data: The report clearly said that Britain does not have any accurate data on this crime because in two-thirds of the cases the ethnicity of the accused was not recorded.
- Over representation: Casey said that it is clear from the police data of Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire and West Yorkshire that the number of people of Asian and Pakistani origin is higher in cases of group sexual exploitation.
Why are questions raised on the accused of Pakistani origin?
Whenever there is talk of grooming gangs in Britain, the question definitely arises why most of the accused are Pakistanis. British society and politics are badly divided on this issue. On one hand, the victim’s family and some MPs openly say that these criminals targeted white British girls because they considered them ‘nasty’. Many of the culprits admitted during interrogation that they considered white girls simply to be used.
On the other hand, Muslim organizations and some leaders say that it is wrong to defame the entire community and this issue is being exploited by right-wing parties for their racial agenda. But the truth is that in most of the major grooming gang cases that came to light in the last 25 years in cities like Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, the accused were Pakistanis. For this reason, the victim’s family and many MPs of Britain are continuously demanding that there should be a National Public Inquiry into the entire matter and strict action should be taken against the criminals without any fear.
Now that this matter is once again in the headlines across the world, the British government has said that it will take strict action. According to an announcement released on the official website of the UK government, record funding has been approved to tackle grooming gangs and child sex abuse. This fund will be used for counseling the victims, forming a special investigation team and speeding up the process of cases.