Virginia Giuffre, 17, slim, pretty; Prince Andrew, 41, his arm round her bare midriff; a grinning Ghislaine Maxwell behind them. An unforgettable image. Guiffre has killed herself, aged 41.
Giuffre accused Andrew of sexually assaulting her when she was 17, allegations he has always denied. In 2022, she got a settlement from Andrew, believed to be worth millions of pounds, and an admission that she was “an established victim of abuse”, perpetrated by Jeffrey Epstein, Maxwell and their male contacts. The settlement contained no admission of liability nor an apology. Guiffre relentlessly fought for other female victims trapped in this web woven by poisonous spiders, but justice turned a blind eye. The accused were too powerful.
Donald Trump, a former Epstein friend, says her death is a “horrible thing”. The opportunist is seizing the moment, that’s all. Groomed victims are used over and over – sexually, by their rapists and pimps – and also by social and political elites. Insult is added to injury.
Let’s go first to the reprehensible, repeated, violent debasement of young girls in our towns and cities, most white and from poor or dysfunctional families or care homes. Their violators are mostly of Pakistani heritage, bands of brothers of all ages, bound by kinships, many born here.
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Read MoreRemember that most sexual abusers in the UK are white and that more victims are abused by family members than outsiders. That said, grooming circles have destroyed young lives, and they are still at it, says Anna Hall, who made a documentary about this evil 21 years ago. On Wednesday night, she returns to the subject with a heavy heart. While making Groomed: A National Scandal, she discovered that things have got worse for the lost girls of Britain.
While the rapists invade their bodies and pass them round, the authorities see them as prostitutes. It’s been going on a long time.
In 2014, Professor Alexis Jay, investigating grooming in Rotherham, reported that children “were raped by multiple perpetrators, trafficked to othertowns and cities in the north of England, abducted, beaten, and intimidated”. There were examples of children who had been doused in petrol and threatened with being set alight, threatened with guns, made to witness brutally violent rapes and threatened they would be next if they told anyone.
“Girls as young as 11 were raped by large numbers of male perpetrators. By far the majority of perpetrators were described as ‘Asian’ by victims, yet throughout the entire period, councillors did not engage directly with the Pakistani-heritage community to discuss how best they could jointly address the issue.”
Most British Asian men are repelled by the rapists and scared that they are all tarnished. Families of some jailed groomers I’ve spoken to defend the men and blame the “dirty” girls. We need a legal duty placed upon these families and communities to report what is going on. And we should permanently tag offenders.
Before the 2015 election in Rochdale, I went up to talk to voters. Charli (not her real name), 19, told me she had been trafficked by a local Asian gang when she was 11 and living with her alcoholic mum. “I had an abortion. Many of us did. These MPs do nothing.”
The standing local MP Simon Danczuk promised action and won with a large majority. That same year, he was suspended by his party for sending explicitly sexual messages to a 17-year-old girl. In 2024, a local, independent review in Rochdale found the police and council failed to protect the girls.
A 2022 report by Professor Jay found that gang rape was not confined to a small number of areas. With all this evidence before us, councils and police still seem to believe that girls who willingly go with their exploiters are asking for it. These arguments come up in courts. The misused are used again.
The violated women and girls are useful vote bait for the right. They want to agitate white voters, to be seen as saviours of girls they don’t give a damn about.
We have had enough inquiries. We know what we need to know. Now is the time for real, urgent, sustainable policies.
Charli stays in touch. Sometimes, she gets sorted, finds work, and stabilises. Then she falls back into depression and drugs. On the phone recently, she told me: “I’m a fighter, I won’t give up. But this abuse is like a cancer eating me up. I feel rotten inside. That won’t get better.”
Guiffre’s family says “she was a fierce warrior in the fight against sexual abuse…[but] the toll of abuse became unbearable”. Because it never really ends. That’s the unbearable truth.
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