Hello, I'm Natasha Froze and this is Spectator Out Loud. Each week we ask a few of the writers from the magazine to read their pieces aloud. This week, Harriet Sargent writes about why ethnicity matters in sexual abuse cases.

Lionel Shriver takes aim at the failing students in American universities.

Martin van der Weir writes about where housing prices will go next.

And Philip Patrick on why Japanese food is overrated.

First up, Harriet Sargent.

A 24th man has just been charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl more than 10 years ago in Bradford.

24 men.

One 13-year-old girl. It takes some absorbing. The case will come to trial in due course,

but it prompts reflection on other cases of historic sexual abuse against girls where the victims

have been white, working class, usually in care and very young.

One girl admitted her first memory was of sexual abuse, aged five.

The perpetrators have often been men from the British Pakistani community living under a Labour-run council. It all happened a decade or more ago.

Nothing to see here, we are told. Just some unsavory, historic sex crime. Let's all move along.

Harvey Weinstein's abuse of women also went back years. That did not stop the Me Too movement

taking to the streets an outrage. Where is the outrage here? No one marches for these girls,

despite them numbering in their thousands, despite them being doused in petrol, threatened with knives

and guns, injected with drugs, gang raped at a tender age, and even murdered. The fate suffered by

16-year-old Lucy Howe. Outrage nowadays is so picky. Victim and perpetrator are the wrong

class and race. Nothing white or privileged about Lucy's 26-year-old taxi driver, boyfriend,

Azhar Ali Mehmet, later jailed for burning to death Lucy, who was then pregnant with his wife,

her sister and her mother. No one is arguing that Pakistani men have a monopoly on child sex

exploitation. The Catholic Church and Jimmy Saville spring to mind, not to mention all the hideous online abusers,

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