Bismillah Chants, Red Room Of Torture, Girls In Dog Cages: Grooming Gang Victims Recount Horrors Of Rape By 'Pakistani Muslim' Men In UK

London: The independent 'Rape Gang Inquiry Report' examining the organised rape and sexual exploitation of minor girls across the United Kingdom (UK) has been made public. The report examines the systematic targeting of vulnerable girls, overwhelmingly White British, by “predominantly Muslim Pakistani gangs” across towns and cities.

The inquiry, led by MP Rupert Lowe, claims that the "overwhelming majority of the rape gang networks consisted entirely of men from Muslim backgrounds – predominantly of Pakistani heritage". It also notes that smaller groups from Somali, Iranian, Syrian, Turkish, and other Muslim origins were also involved in the ghastly crime against women.

The report also mentions that according to the British Newspaper Archive, the first recorded case of specifically Pakistani rape gangs dates back to 1955, when four Bradford-based Pakistanis were charged with raping a 15-year-old girl from Middlesbrough.

Method Of Grooming Girls

According to the report, the gangs typically followed the same process to groom children.

Girls as young as 11 were initially befriended by a young Muslim man who then treated the young child like an adult and would then start providing them with gifts, alcohol, drugs, and cigarettes. After a few months the girls would then be collected from school gates, care homes, and streets in taxis.

They were taken to houses, flats, restaurants, and hotels where they were raped repeatedly by groups of men, tortured, filmed for blackmail, and told they were “white trash” or “kuffar” who merited punishment.

According to the report, many became pregnant while they still children. Some miscarried under trauma, others endured coerced abortions, and some gave birth to children who were later removed by the state.

Red Rooms Of Torture

Survivours also recounted “red rooms of torture”. 

One of the survivours alleged that she was forced to witness extreme violence that resulted in another girl losing her life. She claimed the perpetrators made it clear that it was a direct consequence of their belief that she had disclosed information to the police.

'They'd Chant 'Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim' Before Raping Me'

A girl, who was allegedly introduced to older men at the age of 12, said the men used to give her lifts home from school. She claimed the abuse began when she turned 15.

She said that by the age of 16, she had been introduced to many more men and was constantly harassed by them over the phone. Some men would initially appear kind and caring, leading her to believe they were in a relationship, only to lure her into situations where she would be gang-raped.

They used a combination of false kindness, violent abuse, and alcohol to coerce and control her. Cars would stop in the street and demand she get in. She would be raped and then taken to the next abuser. She claims that on some nights she was passed to as many as ten different men, and estimates she was abused by around 100 men in total.

"Before they raped me, they would chant 'Bismillah Hir Rahman Nir Rahim'."

Sex Room At School

The report also mentions that a daughter confided in her mother that there was a sex room in her school. The mother said that when she told the school about it, they "completely shut it down and said she was lying".

‘Girls Locked In Dog Cages’

One of the surviours recounted that she saw 15 to 20 girls locked in dog cages in the back of a van. She said that it looked like they were on drugs.

‘First Assault Happened Shortly After My 8th Birthday’

Another survivour alleged that she was first assaulted shortly after her 8th birthday.

“He came on top of me and put his hands all over me. I do not remember him saying anything at first. I froze and could not move. I remember being very scared. I also remember being terrified…”

Following this, she allegedly faced years of abuse, rape and torture.

She claimed that the man who first assaulted her later trafficked her to other men.

“After this, I began being collected either by taxi or by men who would pick me up personally.”

She alleged that her tormentor was described to her as someone who ‘adored’ her and would marry me. She was allegedly told this was ‘God’s plan’ and that she  would need to ‘convert’ to Islam.

She noted that what was presented to her as love and destiny, functioned as manipulation and control.

She also recalled being taken to a frightening “punishment room”, which she described as a room where where girls were taken if they were said to have done something wrong.

The room, she described, had crate-like enclosures similar in appearance to dog crates. The room also contained various items which were used to hurt or punish people.

She recalled that a girl, who had apparently reported one of the tormentors to the police, was tortured in the room. 

“I…witnessed an iron being used on the girl’s back while it was hot. I remember seeing severe burns and skin damage to her back…The girl later died. I remember seeing her being strangled…in that room. I recall there being several men present, approximately four in total. I was terrified.”

The survivour also claimed that she got pregnant multiple times and experienced multiple miscarriages.

"A girl was shot in front of me."

She claimed that she was threatened with “extreme violence” and was abused, which made her so scared that she believed that she would be killed if she disclosed to anyone the horrors that was happening with her and other girls.

Failure Of The Institutions

According to the report, the institutions of UK categorically failed the victims.

The report alleged that police forces ignored repeated reports, criminalised victims instead of perpetrators, destroyed evidence, and allowed known rapists to walk free on bail.

“Social care services undermined protective parents, placed children in trafficking hubs inside children’s homes, closed cases despite clear indicators of exploitation, and retaliated against whistleblowers. The NHS recorded genital injuries, multiple sexually transmitted infections in children as young as 13, pregnancies caused by rape, and suicide attempts, yet discharged victims back to their abusers without safeguarding referrals or trauma care,” the report read.

It added that schools observed older men collecting girls at the gates, heard disclosures of rape on school premises, and responded by excluding victims rather than protecting them.

“Taxi licensing authorities renewed permits for drivers who formed the logistical backbone of the networks and collapsed in the face of organised protests when basic safety measures were proposed,” the report alleged.

MP Rupert Lowe Raises The Matter In Parliament

MP Rupert Lowe read out the testimonies of the surviours in the UK Parliament. His speech contained graphic accounts from survivors who alleged years of abuse, intimidation and neglect by authorities who were supposed to protect them.

"I was raped by probably about 600 or 700 different men over three years," Lowe quoted the survivor as saying. Another survivor alleged that abusers "put a cigarette out on the baby's face," while another described being sexually assaulted with a liquor bottle when she was just 12 years old.

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