Police ‘sat’ on sex abuse cases over racism concerns

Members of Britain’s Pakistani community reacted with outrage yesterday amid reports that officials failed to act on sex abuse cases because of concerns about racism in the northern England town of Rotherham.

Muhbeen Hussain, founder of Rotherham Muslim Youth Group, told the Daily Mirror yesterday that Muslims are disgusted that justice was not done — leading to some 1,400 children being sexually exploited over a 16-year period, mostly by Pakistani men.

“Race, religion, or political correctness should never provide a cloak of invisibility to such grotesque crimes,” he said.