‘Demonic Chapter’: How ‘Cultural Sensitivity’ Led to the Systematic Abuse of Thousands of British Girls
When Fiona’s mother called the police to report that her teenage daughter was missing and had been sexually abused by Middle Eastern men in the past, the operator said her description of the perpetrators was “racist” and that she should “just be glad” her daughter was being “taught a different culture.”
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Fiona was moved from a “highly abusive household” into a United Kingdom children’s home and was victimized by a local Pakistani gang beginning at age 13. The perpetrators, whom she described as being between 24 and 45, groomed her affectionately and provided her with alcohol, which then developed into threats, drug dependency, trafficking, and routine sexual exploitation, including rape.
According to Fiona, the men made little effort to conceal their abuse: “Abusers would sit in cars outside waiting for the girls, openly converse with staff, and even phone the home to inquire about them.” She would be trafficked and raped in multiple cities across the U.K.; the gang attempted to bring her to Kashmir, but failed because she lacked a passport. She was impregnated at age 15 and gave birth to a boy; the infant was removed from the children’s home, while Fiona was left to stay.
Fiona recalled that, in one instance, a police officer returned her to the children’s home and told the men “have fun with her.” Fiona estimates that she was abused by between 50 and 100 men, only two of whom were not Pakistani.
Fiona is just one of many victims who shared their stories in a new that documents a decades-long pattern of organized child sexual exploitation in England, largely perpetrated by individuals who are Pakistani and/or Muslim. Their abuse was enabled by the repeated failures of police, social services, and successive governments who feared being called “racist” or “Islamophobic” if they intervened.
“The evidence establishes that a national scandal of repeated rape, trafficking, torture, pregnancy, forced Islamic conversion, and lifelong trauma enabled by institutional denial, political calculation, and fear of the accusation of racism took place over decades,” the report states.
The Rape Gang Inquiry Report, released on June 16, results from an independent investigation led by Member of Parliament and current leader of the Restore Britain party Rupert Lowe. The independent inquiry was funded in part by crowd-sourced donations; to date, the fundraiser has raised more than £790,000 — roughly $1,044,000 USD — from over 23,000 supporters. The inquiry was not a government initiative and therefore investigators lacked statutory powers, such as the ability to compel witness testimony or document production.
Investigators claim to have identified evidence of the gangs operating in at least 149 local authority districts across the United Kingdom. The report argues that the perpetrators were overwhelmingly men of Pakistani and/or Muslim backgrounds. That pattern is corroborated in prior government reviews, such as the “Casey Report” released in 2025, which found that just 28 percent of grooming gang perpetrators are white. The report drew on national data and included instances in which the perpetrator’s ethnicity is either unknown or not declared.
“Britain doesn’t have a racism problem, it has an immigration problem,” reads the first line of the foreword, written by Rupert Lowe.
The new report explores religious and sociocultural factors that motivate the gangsters, with a particular focus on Islam.
“The demographic and cultural drivers are clear. Perpetrators from Pakistani Muslim and other Muslim backgrounds operated under an honour- and shame-based clan code that treated non-Muslim girls, especially white working class girls, as property available for sexual use,” the report reads. “This pattern was reinforced by eight theological and legal aspects of Islam. These include the doctrine of Muslim superiority drawn from Quranic verses that position Muslims at the top with a duty to correct non-believers.”
The bulk of the report consists of grim testimony voluntarily provided by victims, their families, whistleblowers, and other individuals who are familiar with the matter.
A clear narrative emerges across many of the personal accounts: A young white girl from a lower economic class was flattered with “boyfriend” treatment by a friendly young Muslim or Pakistani male, who supplied her with illicit substances and eventually introduced her to a gang of much older men. From then on, the girls experienced frequent — sometimes daily — sexual exploitation, physical abuse, trafficking, and torture, some of which was filmed and distributed. In some cases, the girls were forced into Islamic conversion, Islamic marriages, and trafficked to the Middle East.
Enabled by Institutions
In addition to analyzing the gangs themselves, the report underscores the institutions — the police forces, the social-care industry, the health-care system, the schools, and taxi-licensing bodies — that enabled or encouraged the sexual abuse. Like the Casey Report, the new inquiry report argues that the authorities often neglected to appropriately intervene because they feared accusations of “racism” and “Islamophobia.”
“Long-standing British norms around free speech, child protection, and impartial application of the law were subordinated to the need to avoid offending minority sensitivities at all costs,” states the report. It continues, “Liberal elites in media, politics, and the public sector internalised the idea that acknowledging cultural or religious factors in crime was itself a form of bigotry. This mindset actively shielded the rape gangs by discouraging the very inquiries and interventions that could have saved thousands of children.”
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A victim referred to as “Chloe” says she was age 12 when a man raped her in a graveyard, then penetrated her with a whiskey bottle that shattered inside her. She was treated at an emergency room, although she was not questioned about how the injury was sustained. She later disclosed to social-care workers at age 13 that she was being sexually abused by gangs of Muslim men; the workers responded by informing her about contraception. A social worker then regularly brought Chloe to a clinic, where she was diagnosed with chlamydia in her throat and vagina, gonorrhea, genital warts, and pelvic inflammatory disease. These diagnoses were not reported by the social worker nor the clinic. Once the girl was 14, a social worker finally initiated a discussion about her ongoing sexual exploitation — and proceeded to raise the possibility that she audition for a television show that was looking for an actress to play a child victim of sexual abuse.
After years of being abused by the gangsters, Chloe discovered she was pregnant when she was in the hospital for a failed suicide attempt; the father was a Pakistani Muslim illegal migrant who coerced her into Islamic conversion, forced her to wear a hijab, and regularly beat her. The birth of her child inspired her to improve her life, and she eventually fled to Scotland. Chloe estimates that she was abused by “hundreds and hundreds and hundreds” of men.
“Chloe believes that the local police, social services, NHS, and government were all fully aware of what was happening, including the racialised nature of the crimes, but that they did not intervene for two reasons: because they ‘could not be bothered with the paperwork,’ and because ‘they did not want to be seen as racist,’” reads the report. “Chloe blames these bodies, and their ‘major push for diversity,’ for her abuse.”
Several victims testified that, despite being teenagers or younger, they were dismissed as “prostitutes” by the police when they attempted to report sexual abuse. Some survivors recalled that the police had encountered them in cars with the gangsters, who were neither arrested nor questioned.
‘Far-Right Agitation’
The report accuses Labour Party members of denying knowledge of the gangs despite being previously briefed on the matter. The report further alleges that the Labour Party “prioritised electoral reliance on Muslim voting blocs and then blocked or watered down inquiries, suppressed ethnicity data, and framed legitimate concerns as ‘far-right’ agitation.” Specifically, the report claims that London Mayor Sadiq Khan read police files documenting the rape gangs in his district, but continued to publicly deny the phenomenon, possibly because he “relies on significant electoral support from those communities” and has “an ethno-religious motive to protect the public reputation of Pakistani Muslims in particular.”
The Conservative Party is similarly criticized for its inadequate response, particularly because it neglected to impose mandatory reporting of a perpetrator’s ethnicity or launch a full-scale inquiry.
“The perpetrators operated with impunity because the state enabled them,” reads the report. “The evidence now demands immediate and decisive action to eradicate the problem, deliver justice for the victims, and ensure these abhorrent crimes are eradicated from our shores.”
The report estimates that 250,000 is the “bare minimum” of grooming gang victims since 1955, a figure that originates from a 2019 House of Lords speech by Lord Pearson of Rannoch, who extrapolated from the 2014 Jay Report on Rotherham that set forth the “conservative” estimate of 1,400 local victims of child sexual exploitation (not strictly “grooming gang” activity) from 1997 to 2013. However, the quarter of a million figure has been disputed as an unreasonably high estimate — including by individuals whose work centers on pursuing justice for victims of the gangs.
Recommendations set forth in the report include revising sentencing guidelines to harshen punishments for gang members, deporting the gangsters who are foreign nationals, shuttering mosques and other community institutions that failed to report gang activity, strengthening protective measures for child witnesses in grooming-gang trials, establishing a national unit within the Crown Prosecution Service dedicated to group-based child sexual exploitation, and instituting a national compensation scheme for victims.
In the report’s forward, Lowe raises the possibility of reinstating the death penalty as a punishment for the gang members — although the report itself does not expressly endorse capital punishment.
“The strongest possible penalties, up to and including death, must also be sought for those yet to be properly punished or indeed punished at all for their vile, unspeakable crimes,” Lowe writes in the report’s opening pages.
The inquiry team says it will soon release full witness testimonies, continue gathering stories from survivors, identify Parliamentary members who are responsible for wrongdoing, and pursue legal action.
“We now aim to pursue private prosecutions, and I [Rupert Lowe] intend to use parliamentary privilege to name perpetrators and those who enabled their crimes,” reads an announcement on the fundraising page. “We still have a large amount of the money left to pursue these prosecutions.”
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