A report by Baroness Louise Casey reveals significant gaps in data regarding the ethnicity of grooming gang perpetrators in England and Wales. With two-thirds of offenders' ethnicities unrecorded, conclusions about the scale of this crime remain unclear. The Home Secretary has expressed remorse towards victims and initiated a national inquiry. Local data indicates a troubling trend of disproportionate representation of men from Asian backgrounds among suspects. Casey emphasizes the need for transparency and suggests that the current lack of data serves both to protect criminals and to marginalize communities.
"We as a society owe these women a debt. They should never have been allowed to have suffered the appalling abuse and violence they went through as children."
"We found that the ethnicity of perpetrators is shied away from and is still not recorded for two-thirds of perpetrators, so we are unable to provide any accurate assessment from the nationally collected data."
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