Last month, Elon Musk wrote a series of posts on X about a British scandal stretching back two decades. Gangs of men—almost all Muslim men of Pakistani ancestry—groomed and raped hundreds, and possibly thousands, of British girls, starting from the early 2000s. Social workers were cowed into silence, fearful of being called “racist.” Local police ignored, excused and, in some cases, reportedly abetted pedophile rapists across as many as 50 cities. And senior police and Home Office officials deliberately avoided action in the name of maintaining what they called “community relations.”
Most Americans heard about this case for the first time after Musk started tweeting. Soon after, our own piece on the horror, “The Biggest Peacetime Crime—and Cover-up—in British History,” went viral.
But one woman has been sounding the alarm for 22 years. Maggie Oliver was a police constable in Manchester, where she was the first to uncover the grooming gangs scandal. She doggedly pursued hundreds of cases, and tried to persuade victims to testify against their abusers. But she was repeatedly thwarted by authorities who didn’t want to rock the boat. Eventually, she resigned in protest.
Today she tells the story of her decades-long fight for justice. —The Editors.
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