I’m quite willing to believe that “cultural attitudes” underlay the apparent belief of members of the Asian criminal gang that young white girls, many of whom were or had been in care, were “easy meat” for their predatory sexual behaviour.
After all, such cultural attitudes are hardly confined to those with family connections in Pakistan. They even seem to have been prevalent at the Crown Prosecution Service, which decided back in 2008 that a girl who had come forward to describe being raped would not make a credible witness. If traditionally-minded Asians are indeed liable to believe that children like her are of less account than their own overprotected daughters it must be asked how they came by such ideas. Perhaps they have been reading the Daily Mail‘s frequent and lurid accounts of the Hogarthian decadence with which a high proportion of this nation’s teenage girls supposedly conduct themselves.
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