Lancashire child sexual exploitation experts tackle issue (From Blackpool Citizen)

There you go again LT!

The award-winning Engage team was set up after the Lancashire Telegraph’s ‘Keep Them Safe’ campaign.

Would the LT like to explain away all the years it ignored the problem?

I know for a fact that many letters were sent in, so far back I don't think there was a co.uk.

What a lamentable and belated state of affairs! The British National Party has been flagging up this problem for at least the past 8 years and they have been vilified and called `Racists' for doing so. Their Chairman, Nick Griffin MEP, was twice tried to be jailed for doing so.

And all this time, the `powers that be' including the police as well as the media (such as this newspaper and sister publications) have either been in denial at the extent of the `Asian grooming' problem or, indeed, conspiring to cover it up. Nobody can say they were not warned but, as they say, `better late than never’.

Even in a recent such case of paedophilia reported here, the police admitted they did not take the young victim seriously and she fell back into the hands of her abusers. Just deemed another `isolated incident' I suppose.

Well, a lot of young people and their families have suffered unnecessarily because of those who would rather have shot the messenger rather than heed the message. It is only because the problem has got so big that it can no longer be hidden, and the public has become more aware, that action has now to be seen to be done.

Nevertheless, I do hope they are successful in rooting out those evil people responsible for these odious activities and that ALL sections of society roundly condemn them to make it clear this is completely unacceptable. Yet, there will still be those who come on here and try to blame these young girls for the way they dress, drink, etc. NO EXCUSE!

I should add, I am not a member of the BNP or supporter of Nick Griffin.

I think they need their own dedicated police unit to clamp down on these peadophile rings operating in lancashire. There seems to be an article about another member evey week.