http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5wNqwJIGHI
Grooming refers to racially motivated sexual exploitation. The UK Sikh community has been concerned about this issue since the early 1990s, however the issue has only recently been acknowledged by the mainstream media and some politicians.
On Saturday 11th February, Sikh Channel aired a documentary by the Sikh Awareness Society (SAS) that highlights the grooming of one vulnerable Sikh girl. Being bought up by educated British born Sikh parents, the child was just 12 years old when she became a target of sexual exploitation by adults. The interview follows the family’s journey from a happy household to a real life horror story. It exposes loop-holes in social services, police and schools who all collectively failed to protect this child. It uncovers the highly sophisticated methods of grooming and entrapment employed by paedophiles working in organised networks across cities.
About Sikh Awareness Society:
Website: www.sasorg.co.uk
Email: [email protected] related links:
BBC News: Derby sex gang convicted of grooming and abusing girls (24/11/10)
BBC News: Five charged over abuse inquiry (20/12/06)
BBC News: Group targets grooming of girls (5/12/07)
Daily Mail: Top detective blasts ‘culture of silence’ that allows Asian sex gangs to groom white girls… because police and social services fear being branded racist (5/01/11)
Sarabha Punjab: Punjabi Girls Groomed for Sex! (26/03/07)
BBC News: Jack Straw: Some white girls are ‘easy meat’ for abuse (8/01/11)
