“The Grooming Gangs Scandal No One Wants to Name: Pakistani Heritage, Sikh Victims”, Khalsa Vox, January 30, 2026
“The recent case in Hounslow, where over 200 members of the Sikh community mobilized to rescue a 16-year-old girl allegedly groomed since her early teens by a 34-year-old man of Pakistani origin, should shock Britain into action. Yet it barely registers as a national scandal. This is not an isolated tragedy, it’s the latest symptom of a long-running, ethnically patterned crisis of group-based child sexual exploitation that authorities have repeatedly failed to confront head-on.
Baroness Louise Casey’s National Audit on Group-based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, published in June 2025, laid bare the uncomfortable truths. While national data remains flawed and incomplete, with ethnicity unrecorded in two-thirds of cases, local evidence from forces like Greater Manchester, South Yorkshire, and West Yorkshire shows a clear over-representation of men of Pakistani heritage among perpetrators in these organized grooming operations. The audit highlighted institutional reluctance to examine this pattern, fearing accusations of racism, even as vulnerable girls aged 11-17 continue to be targeted, plied with gifts, drugs, alcohol, and false promises of love before being sexually exploited, trafficked, and discarded.
The Hounslow incident fits this grim template precisely. The girl had reportedly been groomed for 2-3 years, eventually leaving home to live with her abuser. Her parents sought police help multiple times, to no avail. Only when Sikh groups like Shere Punjab and Sikh Youth UK stepped in did authorities act, arresting the man on suspicion of assault (though he was quickly released on bail). Community intervention succeeded where the state failed, yet again……”
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