Grooming Gangs: How They Occurred and How to Spot Them - From a Survivor | Samantha Smith EP 219

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Mikhaila Peterson

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🗓️ 17 January 2025

⏱️ 70 minutes

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In this episode, I spoke with Samantha Smith about the grooming gangs in the UK (which recently became of international interest thanks to X). We covered the history of these groups, what they do, how they target, who they target, the government's criminally abysmal response to this catastrophe and more. Samantha shared her personal experience growing up in an area heavily affected by these gangs, and described how authorities repeatedly covered up attacks on vulnerable girls. She discussed how fear of being labeled racist led to a lack of accountability and inaction from those in power, preventing the issue from being properly addressed. Samantha Smith is a journalist and commentator. She has written for the Spectator, Daily Mail and the Telegraph and has been a contributor on the BBC, GBNews, TimesRadio and others. She was Parliamentary Assistant for her local Conservative MP in 2020-2021 and is now studying Law at an undergraduate level. X post of (graphic) details of the attacks: https://x.com/maxtempers/status/1873835392627302765?s=46 I’d link Ivor Caplin’s X but it was just removed last night. —Follow Samantha— X: https://x.com/SamanthaTaghoy For a high quality, ideology-free education consider enrolling in Peterson Academy: https://petersonacademy.com/ —Follow Me— All Platforms: https://linktr.ee/mikhailapeterson Instagram: https://instagram.com/mikhailapeterson TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@mikhailapeterson Website: https://mikhailapeterson.com Lion Diet: https://liondiet.com Biotoxin: https://biotoxin.com Facebook: https://facebook.com/mikhailapetersonpodcast X: https://twitter.com/MikhailaFuller Telegram: https://t.me/mikhailapeterson —Chapters— Chapter Marks: 00:00 - Introduction to Grooming Gangs 03:00 - What's Going on in The UK 06:00 - How Grooming Gangs Operate 09:00 - The Personal Impact of Abuse 12:00 - Political Cover-ups18:00 - Authorities Downplaying Sexual Abuse 19:50 - The UK's Response to All This 22:20 - Parliament's National Inquiry Vote 26:20 - The Dark Side of the Labor Party? 29:28 - How Deep Does This Go?32:42 - Where Do We Go From Here? 39:00 - Fear of Speaking Out45:00 - Free Speech and Left Wing Ideology 49:58 - Illegal Immigration and Deportation57:38 - The Nuances of Multiculturalism 1:00:00 - Getting Migration Under Control 1:04:00 - Correcting Racial Narratives about the UK

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0:00.0	The average person's outraged and the average politician is trying to cover it up.
0:03.6	Groups of Pakistani Asian men, many of them work at local takeaway shops or convenience stores
0:08.8	and they first come in fly girls with alcohol, drugs, pre-taxie ride and then progressively introduce them to the wider gang and will sexually exploit them.
0:19.0	Wild.
0:19.6	It is an issue that just started with Elon, and yet Elon seems to be the only person
0:23.6	that has been able to make mainstream politicians actually pay attention.
0:27.6	Five years old when my abuse started.
0:29.6	The experience of myself and the experience of countless other girls
0:32.6	was that we were at fault for the abuse that we suffered.
0:35.6	Every number that is being thrown round was to
0:38.3	minimise the scale of abuse because again the people that are releasing the data are the same
0:42.8	people who failed to protect those little girls. It has been allowed to happen for so long
0:47.4	because those in power were too scared of being called racist. Kirstama himself branded every
0:52.4	person who is speaking out about this, essentially a far
0:55.7	right bandwagon jumper. There's no conspiracy because it's the truth. It's out there in the open.
1:05.1	Samantha Smith, welcome to my podcast. Thank you for having me. Yeah, thanks very much for coming on and talking about this.
1:11.7	I know this must be an incredibly stressful topic. It's stressful for me and I'm just reading
1:17.8	about it online. So before we get started, could you give a brief background about who you
1:23.6	are and what it is you do and how you came to be immersed in this topic that we're about
1:29.5	to discuss. Yes, absolutely. So I was raised in Telford in one of the epicenters of
1:38.6	child sexual exploitation and grooming in England. There were three key areas in England that were, I suppose,
1:46.5	most highly publicised when it comes to the grooming gang scandal, and that was Telford Roller and
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