Iam many thanks for your affirmation. You've often spoken about your career in Social Work and being at the Coalface of dealing with problems such as grooming, I do read your posts with interest and imagine you, and other posters such as Galaxy involved in a similar line of work can give most of us more of a definitive overview of what is often a multi faceted problem.
I do often think for the past 30 or so years we've faced a stone wall of silence and obfuscation. Many young women have been sacrificed to the dual aspects of shoring up some of the more divisive features of multiculturism and political correctness. This pressure cooker of ills has been bubbling away way too long and the, lid has blown and the contents are hitting the ceiling at an alarming rate. We are at a stage where society is kicking off every time another rape/sexual abuse case hit the headlines, not just here but all over Europe, many of those countries adopting far more draconian measures than here. I often in my mind's eye make an analogy between all of this and the sexual abuse carried out for so long by those within the Catholic church and possibly to a lesser extent by those within the CofE. All those abusers white, by the way, as far as I know, to counter balance the argument that these threads only seek to demonise one demographic. The sheer deception and denial that went on from within, was hugely damaging to the church and some of its complicit hierarchy, so much so that it has lost swathes of their potential congregation. People cannot bear cover ups, or worse still "lessons have been learned" and umpteen enquiries as to what is already in the public consciousness. As with the grooming scandal when the abuses within the church it become apparent, moreover that the problem was endemic, the weight of opinion can unfairly at times be skewed to besmirch the entire community, every priest etc., tarnished their critics looking at the structure from within, and in the case of say Pakistanis communities a perception of being inward looking, closed off and secretive, which homogenises them unfairly, no one group of people are rarely all one thing or the other.
Unfortunately, when people don't feel there is decisive action from the top. Perpetrators jailed, deported if they are a foreign national, what they don't want is an army of lawyers via legal aid fighting on their behalf for yet another appeal. They want abusers wherever they emanate to stop hiding behind guises of "I'm above the law because I'm a priest, the child led me on, the child/ren was/were complicit, she was a slut, I'm a family man, I didn't know that wasn't allowed here, my wife, children, cat will suffer, if I'm deported" and so on and so forth.
There are undeniably cultural issues, particularly from Afghanistan, as you say a desperately dangerous place for women and girls. I read some time ago, the words of political commentator Douglas Murray "Not all cultures are equal" and whilst some might find that offensive, I don't, why would we consider a culture equal to our own who seek to marry girl children to old men, subjugate women, treat them as second class citizens, practice genital mutilation, forced marriages, honour killings, stone people for adultery, or because they're gay.