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Al-Araby
Al-Araby
Hear the town Rochdale mentioned and many will relate it to one of themost notorious child grooming cases in the UK, involving mostly British Pakistani men as the perpetrators. As difficult as it is to stomach the details that emerged of the abuse of the 47 underage victims in the case, it is also difficult to overlook how the authorities ignored them with fears of racism – causing hesitancy and dismissals that the main accuser was unbelievable.Nazir Afzal OBE believed her, though. When he overturned the Crown Prosecution Service’s (CPS) previous decision not to prosecute the accused men as th…