MartyFunkhouser
Steve Sedgley
Former UKIP leader mis-uses statistics to make a somewhat race targeted claim? Who would have thought it?????
Saying it in the House of Lords doesn't make it any more accurate that saying it at the pub.
Debunked: Estimate of 250,000 victims of UK ‘grooming gangs’ is based on bad stats
Claims of 250,000 grooming gang victims were shared in the House of Lordswww.thejournal.ie
A simple explanation why the statistics you have quoted are probably significantly over-stated, possibly deliberately.
The figures used for Rotherham are based on an estimate of all sexually exploited children in the area, not about grooming gangs, or white victims, or Muslim or Pakistani perpetrators. These have been conflated together to make a deliberate race focused point. Similarly the extrapolation from another set of data (Oxfordshire/Oxford) takes the assault figures for the county and imposes it on a city population 1/5th of the size to make the estimated number look 5 times bigger. Overall, the Pearson quote takes 3 limited investigations into sexual abuse hotspots and uses a very heavy hand to extrapolate that to across the country to get a headline. And then wraps it up in a totally unsupported claim that 225,000 of those rapes are by Muslims (ethnicity and religion isn't recorded and all the original reports say is that 'many' of the assaults were carried out by Muslims).
3.1 million people in the UK say they have been sexually assaulted. 8% of the population. It is probably higher because a lot still goes unreported, especially in domestic situations. Even so this leaves at least 2.9 million people that you don't seem particularly concerned about because it doesn't fit your viewpoint.
We don't do accuracy here.............
