At least 1,860 foreign nationals were arrested last year over sexual crimes against children in England and Wales, the Mail on Sunday can reveal.
And campaigner Dame Jasvinder Sanghera – who has received death threats for speaking out – said she had ‘no doubt’ grooming gangs were continuing brazenly to target youngsters. She demanded a new public inquiry.
The Centre of Migration Control think tank last week published data showing foreign nationals were 3.5 times as likely to be arrested for sex crimes as British suspects.
Police made more than 9,000 arrests of foreign nationals for sexual crimes in the first ten months of last year in 41 of the 43 forces in England and Wales, more than 26 percent of the total estimated 35,000 sexual offences arrests, despite foreigners making up just nine percent of the population.
Now the Mail on Sunday can reveal that the think tank’s freedom of information requests – answered by 22 forces – allows the figures to be broken down for child sex offences by region.
Arrests for child sex crimes by foreign nationals were at 660 in London for the first ten months of last year, 309 in the West Midland, 187 in Greater Manchester, 162 in Kent and 105 in Essex.
At least 312 foreign nationals were arrested for sexual crimes on children under the age of 13, with 98 in London, 61 in the West Midlands, and 40 in Greater Manchester.
There were more than 265 foreign citizens arrested for creating, possessing or distributing indecent photos of children, with 95 taking place in the capital.
And at least 67 foreigners were arrested for prostitution-related crimes.
Those figures will understate the full scope of the scandal, as they are for just half of the forces, and are for just ten months of the year.
The disclosures come as the debate over grooming gangs of Pakistani origin targeting white girls offers little sign of abating with Sir Keir Starmer still attempting to end calls for a public inquiry.
Dame Jasvinder, who was shunned by her family at age 16 after refusing an arranged marriage to an older man, founded Karma Nirvana, a charity supporting victims of honour-based abuse in the UK, in 1993.
She told the Mail on Sunday: ‘I’ve lost count of the number of times victims have come to me saying they are not being taken seriously because people are worried about community tensions.
‘People are worried about being called a racist. People are worried about treading on cultural ties and then on the back of that, people have not acted in response to these victims.
‘I’ve spent nearly 30 years trying to get agencies to recognize that this issue has to be dealt with as a safeguarding issue and not an issue you can just tiptoe around because it’s from a different culture.
‘Cultural acceptance does not mean accepting the unacceptable.
‘I’ve sat opposite victims who were harmed by grooming gangs and they have said to me, ‘Jasvinder, these perpetrators will say to us go to the police, but they’re not going to believe you, because we will just say they’ve been racist.’
People fearing being branded racist gives perpetrators power, she added.
‘If perpetrators believe somehow they are untouchable because professionals may not take them as seriously, because they are fearing being called a racist or fearing treading on cultural ties, you’re giving the perpetrators more power.’
In the first ten months of last year, at least 131,000 foreign nationals were arrested in England and Wales, accounting for 16.1 percent of arrests. They also accounted for 26.1 percent of sexual crimes.
This is the first person from the Asian Community that I’ve heard publicly stand up and condemn what happens within their community. She is a brave woman to stand up for what she believes in.
Why are the leaders of these communities where these gangs are operating, why are they not condemning what these men are doing?
They should all be booted out – no legal aid for these people, which I might add is being paid by the taxpayer. Our government have no justifications for keeping them here in the UK, they need to go!
Although Dame Jasvinder Sanghera is a courageous woman, this just serves to highlight the system’s cowardice and complicity.
Any foreign national found guilty should be expelled back to their country of birth after serving their jail time, and never again permitted to enter the UK again.
People who come to this country should be on a probationary period and if they cannot fit in or understand the laws of the UK then they should be shipped home again. Violate the rules of the UK and indeed cannot acclimate to our way of life, removal without appeal.
Naturally, based on human rights, all of these offenders will be allowed to stay in the UK. As a result, we ought to enact legislation that declares that foreign nationals who commit any crimes in the UK forfeit their right to stay.
It has now been proved time and time again that Sir Keir is a liar. Labour needs to go!
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