When we read about yet another case of Pakistani Muslim abusing and humiliating young Britsh girls for sexual pleasure we cannot help but become angry that so little seems to have been done to prevent such crimes taking place. Children have been ignored, or even sent back to their abusers. A moving programme on Radio 4 this week included a description by a young victim and her mother of the years of abuse she had suffered, and the death of her younger brother in a house fire the day after she had first been raped by such a gang. What was most terrible was that none of the agencies charged with the protection of our children had done a thing to help, or had responded in any useful manner to her situation.
We can perhaps hope that the numbers of young girls caught up in such sex gangs and trafficked around the country for the pleasure of almost entirely Muslim immigrant men will be limited, and systems will be put in place to intervene forcefully at an early stage. But there is an even worse scandal of abuse, if that were possible, of which the Government is fully aware, and yet has done nothing at all to prevent.
This other scandal is that of Female Genital Mutilation. It involves the cutting away of part or almost all of the female genitals of a child, often with what remains being sewn tightly shut with just a small opening for bodily fluids. There are many immigrant communities for whom this is a widespread practice, usually conducted without pain relief, with the child being held down by parents and relatives. It is estimated that 20,000 young girls in the UK are at direct risk of this barbarism being perpetrated on them, and that 66,000 young women in the UK are living with the consequences already.
If we are rightly concerned about the groping and molesting of children by various celebrities over the last three or four decades, how much more should we be concerned that today, somewhere in the UK, a small child of between 4 and 13 years of age is being held down, and her genitals are being cut away by a family friend or relative. I think we need to be more than concerned, we need to be very angry indeed.
The Government will insist that it is spending £35 million on trying to stamp out this revolting habit in other countries, but the MPs on the International Development Committee have criticised the value of spending effort overseas while allowing the practice to be carried out in the UK. The Committee said..
The UK’s credibility in calling to end the practice overseas is undermined by the failure to tackle the problem at home… Robust action should be taken to counter political correctness and address culturally sensitive practices such as female genital mutilation within the UK…The MPs said the UK should adopt a cross-agency approach, where the “police proactively track girls at risk of female genital mutilation and step in to prevent parents having the procedure performed on their daughters.
Over 148 children have been referred to agencies because they have suffered this form of torture but not a single child has been placed on the child protection register by police or social services and not a single person has been prosecuted. Perhaps things will change now that MPs are speaking out about Government inaction. In Spain two parents have just been jailed for six years each for mutilating the genitals of their daughters, aged six and eleven at the time. The judge in this case said..
Female circumcision is not a culture. It is mutilation and discrimination against women.
On a TV report about this scandal last year, the Government Minister responsible suggested that there was little that could be done, but that a leaflet would be produced. In fact there is a great deal that could be done, and would perhaps be done if it was a matter not concerning immigrant culture.
At the very least every female child belonging to those ethnicities where female genital mutilation is practiced should be required to be examined briefly by medical staff once a year to ensure that she has not been mutilated. This should certainly include the children of those immigrants who have gained British citizenship but belong to these high risk ethnic backgrounds. Where a child is discovered to have been mutilated the case must be treated as the extreme form of torture which it is. The child must be removed from her parents and taken to a place of safety, and the parents must be prosecuted just as if they had pressed cigarettes into their daughter’s arm, or had beaten her with a stick, or neglected to feed her. Those who actually perform this brutal practice must be prosecuted to the greatest extent of the law and should receive lengthy prison terms with expulsion from the UK.
It must become clear to all that the UK will not allow this practice in any form. But the Government is silent. It talks about efforts it is making overseas while not a single person has been prosecuted in the UK. This is truly a scandal, and as the knowledge and understanding of this abhorrent tradition becomes more widely disseminated the Government will stand directly responsible for every child, every young girl, who is held down and brutally cut while it organises itself to produce a leaflet.
One way of discouraging this hideous practice would be fighting like with like. Clearly, Pakis and similar understand the importanced of functioning sexual organs as an integral part of the ownership of one’s being.
To demonstrate this in terms that even a Paki can understand, fathers of little girls who have been mutiliated and destroyed emotionally for life should be castrated. In public. Kind of along the lines of public hangings, but with that extra je ne sais quoi that speaks such volumes.
This should not be left to any judge to decide. The penalty for having a daughter who has been sexually destroyed for life should be the concommitant removal of the organ of sexual satisfaction from the men involved in the obscenity of the destruction of the sexuality of a girl child.
Verity,
Or we could just deport all pakis from the UK.
Evan Angelis – Yes, indeed. We must have enough derelict old fishing boats and ex-WWW destroyers rotting around about to house them comfortably to at least 10 miles offshore Britain.
50 years ago every school pupil was given a brief medical examination each year. There lies a solution./……./And heed Roy Honeyfords words;how when the truant officers went around to homes they were told the daughter had been sent back to Pakistan.Honeyford lost his job for this./…./It isn’t just muslems.After Mrs.F.West murdered her step-daughter they said she had gone to Scotland with her mother,who had already been killed by Mr.F.West./……./None of this proper care for childrens welfare can be claimed to be `racist`.
I have a note from 27 May.Rochdale MP Simon Danizuk said on R4;when he raised matter of predatory paedo. gangs,locol councillors asked him to keep quiet because it would damage `community cohesion`.This has been a buzz-word.Keith Vas’s parliamentary committee has recently been told the same(Daily Mail).Ofcause it is the opposite .NOTHING BEING DONE damages `COMMUNITY COHESION`and causes anger and justifiable prejudice.SOMETHING BEING DONE would have sent out the message to all concerned.
We now have madrassers as free schools;but here is ROY HONEYFORD’S ARTICLE from 1984.SEE http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/3654888/Education-and-Race-an-Alternative-View.html
Here is a list of those countries where Female Genital Mutilation is prevalent. It’s quite a long list. Isn’t it reasonable from a child protection issue that all girls arriving from these countries have their FGM status checked, and that those children born in this country from these communities continue to be checked for their protection from real harm.
Africa
Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Cote D’Ivoire, Djibouti, Egypt, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Liberia, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Sudan, Tanzania, Togo.
Central and South Eastern Asia
Brunei, Indonesia
Near and Middle East
Jordan, Oman, Pakistan, Saudi-Arabia, Yemen, Kurdish areas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0NuCMKaRpY&feature=player_embedded
There’s a good report just published by the International Development Committee of the House of Commons. It is a good report, and critical of the lack of activity by the Government in the UK while it trumpets all it is doing elsewhere.
http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmintdev/107/10702.htm
I’ve emailed each of the Committee members asking what they think should be done and if they agree with annual medical inspections, heavy sentencing of those performing FGM and children removed from parents allowing it to happen.
Peter from Maidstone@June 14th, 2013 – 10:40
Mebbe you should email all the new PCC’s and ask them their policy on this. The lack of convictions for this is a disgrace.
P from M – GBH charges should also be brought against the perps. To run consecutively with any other charges. This should put some of them away for a very long time … life even. And, of course, it is only democratic that the other prisoners should be aware of what they were in for. Some prisoners are amazingly sentimental about children.
PS – The above, of course, also includes the women who do the butchery, as well as the ones who hold the little victim down and stifle her screaming.
PPS – I wonder how they square all this with their allah figment. I thought he was supposed to be possessed of some universal knowledge or empathy or something.
Verity@June 14th, 2013 – 14:35
The law is abundantly clear, but the penalties are inadequate.
http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2003/31
what is lacking is the will to detect and prosecute the offenders. Which is a bloody disgrace.
This is obviously horrific, but have you ever wondered why the media bangs on about FGM yet ignores the fact that male genital mutilation (euphemism, circumcision) is carried out in the UK every day, legally?
The NHS mutilated me at the age of 13 for ‘phimosis’ without informed consent. According to them, it was a ‘therapeutic’ measure. The reality is that it is never necessary and was in fact implemented in the UK during Victorian times as an anti-masturbatory tool. The NHS ruined my sex life, caused me depression/anxiety throughout my life, and I can’t even gain closure by seeking compensation and an apology, because, apparently, there’s a time bar of three years from the age of 16. I’m now 34 and have not got a leg to stand on. Convenient for the NHS.
” The reality is that it is never necessary and was in fact implemented in the UK during Victorian times as an anti-masturbatory tool.”
Does the procedure prevent onanism?
I wonder whether one of the shnickled w–w-er-Wallsters among us would like to confirm or deny the effectiveness of the the alleged clinical-ethical intention. 🙂
Actually, circumcision preceded HMQV by a few millennia, Evan. Something to do with the propensity of desert sand to find its way into delicate parts of the anatomy (I was once informed). But don’t let that stand in the way of you seeking redress. I can imagine your brief’s opening gambit:
“My client’s case is that prior to the age of 13 he enjoyed all the pleasures of spanking the monkey; post circumcision all that came to a sticky end (so to speak). To paraphrase Housman Your Honour:
Into his heart an air that chills
From yon far country blows
What are those blue remembered thrills
What highs what calms are those?
That is the land of lost content
He sees it shining plain,
The happy sigh days where he went
…. And cannot come again.
I call my client ….