Fact Check: Grooming Gang Scandal Claims on UK Industrial Scale Gang Rape

Viewers, you heard these testimonies are harrowing and make one question the very essence of what it is to be human. How

can one human do these wild things to another? And did those that cover up in the name of political interest commit a

crime just as grave as the perpetrators? Let's now speak, viewers, to someone who exposed He's a whistleblower. His name

is Raja Miah. We also have with us Dr. Anand Ranganathan in this conversation. Raja Miah, campaigner and whistleblower,

who has been working tirelessly in the background to bring these stories out. Thank you, Mr. Raja Miah, for speaking

to us. I know that this is not an easy conversation as I also mentioned to Sammy Woodhouse. But for viewers hearing

about this for the first time, what exactly was happening in towns like Oldham, Rochdale, Rotherham, Telford,

and and why has it become known as the grooming gang scandal? >> What took place? And this is politeness

where we are British, so we polite with our words. We call it grooming rather than what it really was, which is gang

rape. So, when I when we say that we use the term grooming, it's to disguise gang rape. And what we finally forced our

government to admit last year, this time last year, was to commit to a national inquiry, which is a statutory public

inquiry which acknowledges that across the United Kingdom what we witnessed was the industrial

scale gang rape of predominantly white working class children, girls as young as 9, 10, 11 by networks of politically

protected Pakistani men. >> Wow. What were the common methods these gangs

allegedly used to target, groom, and exploit vulnerable girls? And were there recurring patterns across

different parts of the country. Identical. The patterns were identical across the country and the networks of

men that did this, they were organized crime groups. They weren't just random friends who were meeting up. And they

trafficked the children across the country. The terminology is county lines. They trafficked the children

across the country in the same way they trafficked heroin. So, it was the same gangs doing this. The methods were in

the first instance, they targeted children in the care homes. So, in the in the

protection of the state, children in the care homes were targeted because they came from dysfunctional families or

broken families, so it was easier to manipulate them. And also, no one cared in the way that they should have cared.

So, that's what they did first, but it evolved. Over time, it evolved. And by the time we finished the work we were

doing in Oldham, they were dragging children into cars from outside school gates and taking them away. And this is

evidenced. So, none of this is exaggerated. This is evidenced. >> Okay. Gosh, I mean, I I don't know where

to begin. Is there a misconception that these were isolated cases when in reality the

victims often came from similar vulnerable backgrounds? And why didn't anyone raise the red flag? I mean, in

India, quite often these stories appear and everyone sort of says then, you know,

it's papered over by terms like white collar crime, for example. It's called white collar crime in this

country. It's sort of not addressed as what it is. And then people say, "Oh, but these are isolated incidents." So,

Mr. Mayor. >> So, the as it evolved, it became a wider

demographic of girls, but in the first instance, you were correct to say it was children from the care homes, vulnerable

children, and the red flags were raised. This is part of the scandal. The reason the state covered it up when the red

flags were raised, first and foremost, they decided that these children were making lifestyle choices, so they were

deciding for themselves at the age of 9 or 10 or 11 that they were having sex as the police and the authorities saw it

with these gangs of men. They weren't. They were groomed and they were abused. So, that's the first instance. The

second was because these were white working-class girls. We have a class issue in the United Kingdom. So, these

these girls were seen, you know, less worthy and less worth the effort, and they brought it on themselves.

And then the other pattern, of course, is that the cover-up was to And this is their words.

This is the authorities' own words, "maintain community relations." So, race relations mattered more than

safeguarding children from gang rape. And all of this is now evidenced, confirmed, and the national inquiry will

validate what so many of us have been campaigning for for so long.