This article was posted up on Reddit WorldNews and it appears the mods have all gone to sleep because it currently has 83.5k upgoats and is trending #4 since being posted 17 hours ago.
From the article headline:
Britain's 'worst ever' child grooming scandal exposed: Hundreds of young girls raped, beaten, sold for sex and some even KILLED
SPECIAL SUNDAY MIRROR INVESTIGATION: Authorities failed to act over 40 years - despite repeated warnings to social workers - with up to 1,000 girls, some as young as 11, abused in Telford
Some of the comments are quite interesting. You can almost sense the despair at realizing much of what they thought they knew is simply a thin veneer covering a much darker picture.
Here's a sampling:
The scale of this issue is horrendous. It's nationwide.
EDIT: To everyone replying that the issue is worldwide. Yes I am aware of that. However in the context of the article I am pointing out that the scale of the issue is not appropriately reflected in the UK media.
Did people just forget that britain "lost" thousands of reports of child sexual abuse by their government officials just a year or so ago?
Jesus Christ, it's like every town in Britain has multiple child rape gangs that have been going on for decades and no one seems to care.
In the minutes of a meeting about a girl who had been raped by five men, a police detective refused to put her into the sexual abuse category, saying he knew she had been “100 percent consensual.” She was 12.
