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carmencita ago

“Many parents … called and asked if they should be worried about letting their children go to Broen Shopping, [the mall in which] the episode took place,” he said. “Our answer was an emphatic ‘no’.” "

WHY? Why as a parent would you even ask that question?!!! NO Do NOT send your child to the shopping center You Morons! Wake Up! Boy the dumbing of the planet has been a successful operation.

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Right? I'm nostalgic for the good ol' days when moms could drop us off when we were 13 to cruise the mall and nobody had a care in the world. What was with that? Were these crimes just not talked about or did they not happen in such prevalence?

think- ago

Were these crimes just not talked about or did they not happen in such prevalence?

They were not talked about. I remember a story a woman resident in Rotherham told (yep, that Rotherham). She and a relative (both teenagers/girls) at the time went to a bookstore, and were molested there by a man. They went out, and told their two aunts. The aunts said they should up and not talk about it! Just imagine!

The woman quoted this experience as example that girls were raised in a way that you had to suffer silently when you made these kind of experiences.

Factfinder2 ago

Good grief! Hard to believe, but it explains a lot about why we are where we are today with pizzagate.

think- ago

Yes. Maybe I'll find the source - I have saved it somewhere. It was a very good article about the 'culture of silence' in Rotherham. Pointing out that teachers and classmates knew that underage girls had adult 'boyfriends' (=traffickers), but nobody intervened.

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

Yes, I can certainly see that. It seems as though those from the baby boomer generation and earlier were "trained" to keep secrets. Even today, my parents will keep things from their doctors because according to them, you don't complain about things. Outrageous! So, if your brainwashing is so deep that you believe you should be keeping things from your doctor, I can just imagine what else is kept in the dark.

think- ago

I knew that you were not supposed to talk about priests molesting kids, but I thought in this case, it was a total stranger, and the two adult women would have helped their nieces.....but no.... :-(

Enigmatic_Continuum ago

I guess she was worried about what people would think of her nieces, or criticize her for dropping them off? Remember that there was a time when you sent your daughters away if they got pregnant until the baby was born to save face because you didn't want people to know that the girl wasn't "pure" anymore.

think- ago

Yes, that might be a possibility. I found this story useful for understanding why child trafficking has been going on in Rotherham for decades, with 1,500 victims (and the city isn't that big), basically under the eyes of the public, and nobody really tried to fight it, apart from some desperate parents, and maybe the one or other social worker.