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Claudia von Ayres's avatar

To Jade, you are amazing telling your story. I am not the type of person who will tell you that you are being brave as it is not the point of why we must tell our side of the story. What it tells me and will also tell others and encourage others, that telling your story is away to fight back and away to be strong. That is what we all need to do as a nation. People are looking for peace, but peace doesn't come when you tell your story or if you stay quiet. The one you have to fight in the light with others, and the other is you will have to fight alone in the dark. I have done both.

To Maggie, I have my question, if by some miracle we get in desent people in government that will crack down on grooming gangs and actually focus on real crimes rather than arresting people (as my daughter puts it) for typos, what will be needed to be put in place to tackle such a neglected and covered up situation as the rape gangs? Well, in your professional wisdom.

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Georgie Frayne's avatar

Just want to thank these incredible woman for what they are doing. They are quite literally hero's.

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SC Kristin Maguire's avatar

In the arena of child victims: What is the balance of transparency, protecting victims, and innocent until proven guilty ? Should non-custodial adults being alone and/or having contact with minors without parental consent be a crime so the threshold for prosecuting predatory adults is lowered?

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Rebecca's avatar

Do authorities actually know how to deal with child abuse whether that be in identifying it or, when they do identify it, stopping or at least lessening it?

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Stephen Davids's avatar

I hope she says where exactly the nexus between police and politicians lies. Minister and chief of police? Is money or blackmail involved? Or is there no such nexus, just corruption of the police by the criminals?

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ThinkForSelf's avatar

Have the police not been aggressive in pursuing these sex criminals? If so, why?

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curious2plus2's avatar

Thank you both so much for your bravery in a climate that wants to ignore this issue. If you were in parliament and could make sweeping changes that would prevent this from happening to more girls in the future, what would be the main things you would put in place/prioritise?

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TheBlues's avatar

Are some areas and streets of many of our big cities and towns being made systematically hostile for women (non-Muslim in particular) by the aggression of Muslim men, and how can we combat this?

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Sal Yousaf's avatar

Maggie, isn't it time we injected Islamo-realism to counter accusations of Islamo-phobia by Western liberals when the overrepresentation of Pakistani Muslim men in grooming gangs is presented to them? Islam divides the world in two, the world of Islam and the world with which Islam is at war. Young female sex slaves can be taken in war.

Whilst I realise the average Pakistani Mirpuri isn't a scholar level ayatollah, I'd suggest enough of the superiority complex Islam conveys to its followers culturally filters through to them.

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Seayeaitch's avatar

How refreshing to learn that we have individuals like Jade that speak out and tell it as it really is, bravo to Jade and all those that understand responsibility and in particular accountability.

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Amy Nye's avatar

I don't get it—why can't I find this: "Tomorrow (supposed to be this week) she will be returning to Triggernometry with Jade, a grooming gang victim, who is very bravely going to tell her own powerful story of her childhood and what she went though". Where is this video?

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