‘PC’ police failed to stop Asian gangs preying on white girls in Keighley - ex-MP
Ann Cryer, who was MP for Keighley for 13 years before stepping down in 2010, said there had been a total failure by local police, social services, schools and hospitals in West Yorkshire to work together to address the mounting evidence of child sex exploitation that emerged a decade ago.
“There has to be inter-agency working - and that wasn’t happening then,” she told a committee of MPs tonight.
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Hide Ad“The West Yorkshire Police, Bradford local authority, social services, schools, hospitals even – because abortions were taking place – none of them were working together. None of them were giving information.
“I feel pretty convinced that at that time there was a fear of being called racist.”