Child sex abuse scandal in the UK

Child sex abuse scandal in the UK

Peter Kopa, Prague, June 27, 2025

We comment on an article by Kurt Mahlburg dated June 18, 2025, which appeared in The Daily Declaration, Australia. Here we see where the factual rejection of God and His commandments leads man, which always triggers a sequence of moral disasters. In our case, it is mostly children who have not grown up under the protection of their parents, but are victims of abuse and neglect. Without faith, anyone can behave like Hitler or Stalin: according to Jordan Peterson, it is only a matter of circumstances: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MsNUKuccJ78&ab_channel=LexClips

If the state is not under the protection of a Christian culture, it cannot instill the teachings of faith itself. For this reason, the Church is ultimately the salvation of the state, because it brings the salvation of faith to the individual, which for so many centuries has manifested itself outwardly in the form of Judeo-Christian culture. To the extent that this is neglected, moral desolation and hopelessness appear. This is confirmed by the abuses we are discussing, because they are perpetrated by British people of Pakistani origin.

An official audit denounces pedophilia

The National Audit on Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, conducted by Baroness Casey of Blackstock and published in June, exposes the magnitude of the abuse and its continued denial. This official attitude has encouraged the abuse, confirming what whistleblowers and activists, often commissioned by the British government in February, had been warning about for years.

The Casey report commissioned by the British government in February focuses on “grooming gangs” (grooming means seduction), which are organized groups of abusers, mostly British men of Pakistani origin, who operate with impunity in towns and cities across the country.

Baroness Casey’s conclusion was unequivocal: this is not just a police failure, but a political and cultural failure, compounded by a deliberate evasion of uncomfortable truths.

“Child sexual exploitation… is one of the most appalling crimes in our society,” Casey wrote.

“We are talking about multiple sexual assaults committed against children by multiple men on multiple occasions; beatings and gang rapes.”

The audit has been a harsh criticism of the political class’s failure to tackle the problem, with much of the institutional inertia dating back to the time when Sir Keir Starmer was director of public prosecution (DPP). According to critics, under his leadership, prosecutors avoided prosecuting perpetrators from ethnic minorities—particularly British men of Pakistani origin—allowing the abuse to continue unchecked.

“Our collective failure to address the issues surrounding the ethnic background of grooming gangs has dominated political and institutional debate,” he added, “without a definitive response at the national level.”

Forced reaction from the British government

In response to the report’s publication, Prime Minister Keir Starmer had no choice but to announce that the government would launch a national investigation, adding that he had read “every word” of the Casey report and would implement its proposals in full.

Starmer’s announcement marked a radical shift, as he had previously rejected calls for a national inquiry—under pressure from both the Conservatives and Reform UK—arguing that existing recommendations from a previous review by Professor Alexis Jay were sufficient and accusing advocates of the inquiry of “jumping on the far-right bandwagon.”

Previous allegations of pedophilia

The findings echo concerns repeatedly raised by figures such as Tommy Robinson—long vilified in mainstream circles and censored on social media—who warned that authorities were turning a blind eye to child abuse for fear of being labeled racist.

The defense of the cause by billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk has also come under renewed scrutiny since the report’s publication. In early 2025, Musk openly criticized Labour Party leaders, including Sir Keir Starmer and Protection Minister Jess Phillips, for their reluctance to address the ethnicity of the perpetrators and the systemic failures that allowed the abuse to continue unchecked.

Observers also point out that Musk’s purchase of X and the subsequent removal of political censorship created an online environment in which whistleblowers, survivors, and independent commentators were able to share evidence and testimonies about the grooming gangs.

According to the audit, incomplete and politicized data was selectively used to avoid addressing ethnic or religious dynamics that did not fit popular narratives. As a result, perpetrators took advantage of the silence, while victims were left unprotected.

The audit estimates that around 500,000 children suffer some form of sexual abuse each year in the UK, most of which goes unreported. In 2024 alone, the police recorded more than 100,000 crimes of child sexual abuse and exploitation, but only 17,100 were officially flagged as CSE. Of these, only 700 were identified as incidents of group CSE in the most recent data.

Justice denied to survivors of grooming gangs

Perhaps most heartbreaking are the voices of the survivors. The audit collects stories of women who were abused as children and have been traumatized again by a justice system that continues to fail them. Some cases have been stalled for years and the abusers remain free. Anonymity orders intended to protect survivors have also been breached without consequence.

“These women were angry, rightly so, about what had been allowed to happen to them as girls,” the report states, “but they seemed equally traumatized by their current treatment by official agencies.”

In some cases, victims were even denied psychological counseling to help them cope with their trauma, for fear that it might interfere with ongoing investigations, leaving them unsupported and suffering. As Baroness Casey said, “As a society, we owe these women.”

The audit concludes with a series of urgent recommendations: toughening rape laws, introducing national licensing standards for high-risk professions such as taxi drivers, and improving the collection of demographic data to better understand the scope of the problem.

It also emphasizes the need for political and institutional accountability, both for past failures and for addressing the difficult realities of the future.