"Something similar is at work with her claim about the second “issue of culture” that her mooted new inquiry should look at:
“Where do these abusers come from? There’s a lot of misinformation, there’s a lot of generalisation and many innocent people will end up being grouped in with them. But there is a systematic pattern of behaviour, not even just from one country, but from sub-communities within those countries. People with a particular background, work background. People with a very poor background, a sort of peasant background, very, very rural, almost cut off from even the home origin countries that they might have been in.”
This is a less precise version of an argument you hear from parts of the British right: that what drives grooming gangs in the UK is the culture and kinship ties of Mirpur in Pakistan. Here is the ethnicity breakdown of suspected cases of
group-based child sexual abuse in England and Wales in 2023, where the ethnicity of the suspected perpetrator is recorded:
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