Since the hard hitting report and documentaries relating to the Rotherham child sexual exploitation scandal back in 2013, there has been more awareness to child exploitation gangs in the UK.
The girls affected were mainly from low-income and troubled households. Often, they were in care under the system in one form or another.
The town of Rotherham had a large population of South Asian families and many of the young Indian and Pakistani men were involved in crime ranging from fraud and theft to drug dealing.
Supposedly, Young white English girls were being groomed by these Indian and Pakistani (later revealed Afhgani as well) men. While not necessarily old themselves (ages between 18 and 25) they would entice these troubled girls with their gangster type personas, BMW and Volkswagen cars and alcohol and drugs.
In recent findings, it seemed a lot of cases of grooming where offenders were arrested or identified, ethnicity was NOT recorded. This obviously skews the data.
For example:
Ethnicity was recorded for only about 34% of grooming‑gang suspects in 2023 and 39% in early 2024
Historically, two‑thirds of cases lacked any ethnic data
Overall Ethnic Breakdown of UK Grooming gangs
- In 2023, among those with known ethnicity:
- 70% were White
- 6.9% were Pakistani (rising to 13.7% in early 2024)
- Broader Home Office research shows most grooming‑gang offenders are White, though certain Black and Asian backgrounds appear over‑represented relative to national population shares
Academic & Think‑tank Findings on UK Grooming gangs
- A 2015 study: 42% White, 14% Asian/British‑Asian, 17% Black among 1,231 offenders (sample from 19 police forces)
- CEOP (2013): 75% of 306 offenders in known group‑cases were Asian—but limited sample gov.uk.
- Quilliam’s 2017 claim (84% Asian) has been widely disputed due to poor sampling methods
Baroness Casey’s 2025 Audit on UK Grooming gangs
- Emphasizes missing ethnic data, warning against both sweeping assertions (“most offenders are white”) and irresponsible generalizations thesun.co.uk+7en.wikipedia.org+7en.wikipedia.org+7thetimes.co.uk+2en.wikipedia.org+2blogs.lse.ac.uk+2.
- However, when known, data tends to show a higher-than-expected rate of Asian and specifically Pakistani-origin suspects in group-based CSE — particularly in regional hotspots
The rhetoric is evident. In the rise of Islamophobia throughout the Western world.
This is as a result of lackluster immigration policies often allowing criminals from Muslim countries without any vetting.
This has allowed right leaning anti-muslim organisations such as Turning Point and Quilliam to overly represent portrayed crimes by offenders from a Muslim background to provide a skewed sense that anyone following the Islamic religion was a ticking time-bomb.
Conclusion and Observations
The evidence and statistics have held firm that this is a gross exaggeration. There seems to still be a large % of grooming and paedophile gangs pertaining to the White community.
However, this is not to say that there isn’t a problem with certain Muslim communities and mentality in Europe and the West.
You just need go to Whitechapel, Aldgate, Barbican, Limehouse to see how many Bengladeshis there are. Perhaps 90% of all the social housing there is taken up by the Bengali community. There is littering, lack of health and safety in many shops and restaurants and sub letting of council properties.
In other areas of East London and other big cities such as Birmingham and Manchester, Pakistanis and Indians seem to be the dominant ethnicity.
Whether it be a mindset of extremism or more localised to certain cultures, rather than the religion, South Asian young men have been involved in a lot of extremist attacks at worst and fraud and petty crime at best.
As a white English native of the United Kingdom, one could feel that all these years of being quieted when highlighting the concern of certain cultures not treating the country with respect or admiration but rather abusing what it has to offer from Welfare to freedom of speech have sidelined the Englishman.
The same seems to have occurred with a lot of other European countries such as Germany and France and to a lesser degree, the United States.
This is one of the reasons there is a rise in white supremacist, Deus Vult Christian social media presence on Instagram and X. You stomp on a certain people at the behalf of another so long, they will group together and riot.
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