If anyone needs to know about Rotherham, then just google it. There are pages on it.

In a nut shell. Rotherham is a place in UK where it is now exposed the local authorities and police allowed child sex exploitation rings to operate for years and did nothing about it. It is estimated this involved some 1400 underage girls, so is of epic proportions. The stories of the victims are shocking.

The rings were allowed to operate because the senior authorities did not want to be called 'racist' if they acted against the perpetrators. So the girls were blamed and labeled 'slags'

It is now over six months since the first report came out and finally the UK government is starting to act. The local council has been sacked and administrators installed.

It seems only five persons have been convicted, but the word is that there is to be many facing courts soon. Let us hope this is so, including those in authority that failed to act.

My question is can this scandal happen here in Aus? If so what basic action can we take to prevent it and will our politicians and bureaucrats learn from the Rotherham child sex scandal.

Banjo,

The apparatuses of the State will most certainly not "learn" anything. Take a step on the global stage and notice that our politicians of all persuasions are the Southern Hemisphere equivalents of the spineless, cowardly, and self-serving English school of political administration; led by an inanimate governor who goes by the name of Political Correctness.

My question is can this scandal happen here in Aus? It happens daily in the Indigeneous communities. Culture triumps over protection of kids. Its amazing that even Fairfax is now reporting on child abuse among Muslims

http://www.smh.com.au/nsw/muslim-child-bride-was-pregnant-court-told-20150211-13bw8o.html

Dear runner,

You wrote;

"My question is can this scandal happen here in Aus? It happens daily in the Indigeneous communities."

And as the overwhelming evidence tells us in our Churches, our Synagogues, and probably in our Mosques.

Dear Banjo,

Got a new skin for that drum yet? Me thinks it needs a fresh one.

Greetings Banjo,the disease that is “uber social consciousness” has spread through all the western first world administrations. Astoundingly it is a manifesto which has a secret base ideology of factionalization, but a public credo of integration.

Rotherham shut its eyes for 16 long years...we know that all the local politicians and cops resigned, but where were the white poms. There was a gang of Muslim Paki rapists in Sydney in the early 90’s and the media and talk back cried for them to be found and arrested, they were are all still in jail.

The Cronulla riot was a statement of awareness if nothing else. But it exhibited that we have a limit and our youth will voice the communities concerns. Banjo the poms are finished....but not us.

Child abuse in Australia has existed for generations
in all states and territories. We have a Royal Commission
currently investigating institutional child sexual abuse.
The stories and depth of the abuses are horrific. As we've
seen through the media and other reports.

The following link also provides some details:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Child_sexual_abuse_in_Australia

We're told that according to a report that recorded
the types of child abuse reported in Australian
States and Territories in 2011-12 there were 48,420
substantial cases of child endangerment, of which 5,828
were cases of sexual abuse.

Evidence from reports indicate that the majority of
sexual assaults in Australia were undertaken by
perpetrators who knew the victim. According to a 2009 report
by the ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 40 per cent
of sexual assaults reported to law enforcement agencies
in Australia that year took place against children under
the age of 14. This statistic includes sexual assaults that
adults said were committed against them when they were
under the age of 14.

The percentage of cases in which the child had a familial
relationship with the perpetrator were - 26 per cent of
cases in South Australia, over 20 per cent in ACT, and
Tassie, 39 per cent of cases in NSW and 30 per cent of
cases in Queenland.

In March 2014 - the ABC reported that police identified 30 -40
children under the care of the Department of Human Services in
Victoria who had been abused by paedophile gangs.

In 2007 the Queensland Children's Commissioner reported that
some 70 per cent of psychiatric patients are known to have
been sexually abused as children.

It seems that Rotherham in the UK is not the only place
that has had a child sexual abuse problem that went on
undetected for years. There are many other areas across Britain
with the same problem.
As there are within Australia.