Child sexual exploitation “thrived” for 30 years in the English town of Telford because of a failure to investigate offenders, who were largely Asian, over the belief it would “inflame racial tensions,” a report has concluded.
The chairman of a public inquiry into what happened in Telford, Tom Crowther QC, said, “The overwhelming theme of the evidence has been the appalling suffering of generations of children caused by the utter cruelty of those who committed child sexual exploitation.”
But he also criticised those who failed to investigate the allegations for years “because of nervousness about race.”
Crowther said more than 1,000 children had been sexually exploited in Telford over a 30-year period….