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Rotherham's three Labour MPs to sue UKIP MEP for slander


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This didn't suddenly come to the surface.

 

If the MPs didn't hear what everyone else knew, you have to ask why not?

 

Some very good reasons would be:

 

1 that you were not an MP at the time.

2 you did not work at an agency involved.

3 you did not live in South Yorkshire for most of the time this abuse was being done.

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Wikipedia's intro might help put the timeline into context.

 

Widespread organised child sexual abuse took place in Rotherham, South Yorkshire, England, between 1997 and 2013. Local investigations into the abuse began in 1999, although some reports were never finalised or made public by the authorities.[1] In 2010, five men of Pakistani heritage were found guilty of a series of sexual offences against girls as young as twelve.[2] A subsequent investigation by The Times reported that the child sex exploitation was much more widespread, and the Home Affairs Select Committee criticised the South Yorkshire Police force and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council for their handling of the abuse.

 

An independent inquiry into child sexual abuse in the town, led by Professor Alexis Jay, was established in 2013 for Rotherham Council.[3] The inquiry's initial report, published on 26 August 2014, condemned the failure of the authorities in Rotherham to act effectively against the abuse and even, in some cases, to acknowledge that it was taking place.[4][5][6] It conservatively estimated that 1,400 children had been sexually abused in the town between 1997 and 2013, predominantly by gangs of British-Pakistani men.[7] Abuses described by the report included abduction, rape, torture and sex trafficking of children.[6]

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Some very good reasons would be:

 

1 that you were not an MP at the time.

2 you did not work at an agency involved.

3 you did not live in South Yorkshire for most of the time this abuse was being done.

 

In which case it is a strange assumption that the remarks by UKIP were aimed at them rather than the MPs who were.

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Preliminary hearings were conducted six months ago by Mr Justice Warby.

 

'The hearing was to determine meaning; whether the words were fact or comment; and whether the words referred to the third claimant (as none of them were named).

 

The judge viewed the BBC recording of the speech. The judge found the following three meanings in the speech:

 

"Each Claimant “knew many of the details of the scandalous child sexual exploitation that took place in Rotherham over a period of sixteen years, in the course of which an estimated 1,400 children were raped, beaten, plied with alcohol and drugs, and threatened with violence by men of Asian origin, yet deliberately chose not to intervene but to allow the abuse to continue.”

 

That they “acted in this way for motives of political correctness, political cowardice, or political selfishness”, and

 

That each “was thereby guilty of misconduct so grave that it was or should be criminal, as it aided and abetted the perpetrators and made the Claimants just as culpable as the perpetrators.”"

 

The claim will therefore continue based on the meanings found by the judge;' and the trial will decide whether those meanings are, or may be, defensible.

 

Source Please read. I hope I have not made any errors in trying to simplify.

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