[Margaret Pilkington]

It IS racist, it was one race of men, abusing girls of another race...mainly because they see those girls as being less than human...of no account......it is also a culture based crime. Religion only comes into it because these men cannot do their evil stuff to girls of their own race/culture/creed or they would be severely dealt with (and the girls probably would be murdered too).
As you say it would not have been tolerated in their own community...and had these been white men, abusing muslim girls, what then, do you think would have been the outcome?

These men preyed on vulnerable girls...making the girls think that someone cared about them.(for a while anyway) The 59 year old (who isn't named) even tried to justify his acts by saying that society had let these girls down long before he ever met them.....like that is a good excuse.
The CPS did let the girls down by not prosecuting when the issues were first raised in 2008.