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🗓️ 14 March 2025
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0:00.0 | In Rotherham, the whistleblowers came from an organization called Risky Business that worked with At Risk Girls. |
0:05.8 | They had an office. One morning they came in and they found that someone had got through the front door, got through the door into their office, got into the locked filing cabinet, and got onto the password-protected computer, and files that they had suddenly gone missing. |
0:19.8 | And new documents had been written onto their computer |
0:21.9 | creating minutes of meetings that had never occurred and they could prove hadn't occurred because |
0:26.9 | the individual involved was on holiday at the time wasn't even the country i think so that was a real |
0:31.5 | cover-up has anybody ever been prosecuted for that no we have no idea who did that i mean we |
0:35.7 | can guess who did it who had the keys and the passwords and everything else but we have no idea who did that. I mean, we can guess who did it, who had the keys |
0:37.6 | and the passwords and everything else, but we don't know who did it. |
0:44.0 | All right, so we're going to take this interview in a slightly different direction than |
0:50.9 | I've taken some of the other interviews here at ARC. You've been writing a lot |
0:54.2 | about the grooming scandal here in the UK, which for about two weeks in the US, about a month ago, |
0:59.7 | we were talking about quite heavily because Elon started tweeting about it. But before that, not much, |
1:05.5 | subsequently not much. So I, yes, my first question to you is, how did you get involved in that, |
1:09.6 | interested in that? |
1:12.8 | And then where is it at at the moment? |
1:18.6 | So the grooming gang scandal is about something that happened primarily in the 1990s in the early 2000s. |
1:21.9 | It came out in the newspapers in Britain in 2010s. |
1:27.1 | And the big sort of marker is in 2014 there was a report into a town called Rothero. And this is a not terribly |
1:28.9 | large town. It's a fairly depressed area, steelworks, somewhat left behind. And they found that |
1:35.2 | within the time period they were looking at, there had been, they estimated 1,400 girls raped, |
1:40.9 | primarily by Pakistani gangs. That has subsequently been upgraded. The police now believe |
1:46.0 | it's 1,510. And that obviously was a big story back in 2014, but Twitter was not quite as big. |
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