The U.K.'s Express has pieced together shocking testimony from victims and local residents in a large-scale investigative series that shows nothing has been done to stop the horrific sex crimes being perpetrated by Pakistani Muslims against British school girls in the town of Rotherham.

Media reports of the rapes originally surfaced in 2014, and eventually the truth came out that more than 1,400 school girls had been lured into sex by "grooming gangs" between 1997 and 2013. The gang members passed the girls off one to another for their own sexual gratification. Some were as young as 11 years old and almost all were 17 and younger.

WND last reported on the situation in April when it interviewed Peter McLaughlin, author of a landmark book "Easy Meat: Inside Britain's Grooming Gang Scandal."

While the British politicians and press finally relented and stopped denying that the girls had been systematically abused by the "Asian gangs," as they called them [never using the word "Muslim"], the true scope of the problem was exposed by McLaughlin. He reported that the same type of gangs exist in almost every city with a significant Muslim minority across Britain and Wales and that the number of abused female children is at least 100,000.

TRENDING: Support for Black Lives Matter sees massive plunge, polls say

But now the Express has become the first mainstream British newspaper to take up the story in a serious investigative way, albeit still focused solely on the single city of Rotherham. The paper interviewed scores of victims and related their stories, something the media until now has refused to do.

"They all told us how police and the local council is still 'failing' thousands of vulnerable girls," the Express reported. "It reveals how organized, criminal gangs of pedophiles are still using the town as their own personal fiefdom, peddling underage girls for sex as part of a multi-million pound crime empire."

The male abusers are predominantly from the city of Mirpur in the disputed region of Kashmir, on the border between Pakistan and India, the paper reports.

"Today an investigation by this website lifts the lid on the shocking scale of abuse still going on in Rotherham, two years after a landmark report into the scandal ruled police and council workers had ignored the issue for fear of being branded racist," it further reports.

A report published by Professor John Drew in March concluded that the police were now "adequately" tackling child grooming and that historic failures had been "isolated."

But testimony, pieced together from independent sources and exposed by the Express, shows quite a different reality.

"A number of people who gave evidence to Professor Drew’s inquiry expressed open dismay at his findings and told us the grooming of girls is as bad now as it has ever been," the Express reports. "And many have told Express.co.uk of their outright anger the police and local council workers have not done more to crack down on the grooming gangs."

Victims speak out

One victim, who the Express called Ellie to protect her identity, said: "Raping of white girls by these men is still going on. Some, I know, have had to wait months before they're even asked to give a statement [to the police]. It's shockingly bad still."

The most disturbing thing about the Express revelations is the fact that almost no arrests have been made to date due to what the Express calls "scandalous failings" of the South Yorkshire Police (SYP) to tackle child sexual exploitation the Government sent in the National Crime Agency (NCA) to oversee the inquiry.

The investigation – called Operation Stovewood – is probing more than 7,000 lines of inquiry.

But Ellie told the Express: "What have the National Crime Agency been doing for the last 18 months with their £10million? No arrests yet? We're feeling desperate and disheartened."

Cops tell white girls they're 'being racist'

Another girl, going under the pseudonym Lizzie, said: "I know a few girls who have come forward recently and been told they are being racist and I know a lot that won't come forward and to be fair I can't blame them.

"Nothing has changed, not in the slightest. It's still the same scale as before."

Lizzie's was one of a number of testimonies the newspaper heard detailing how abuse is going on in plain sight, with victims, campaigners and neighbors all able to direct this website to the areas where the grooming gangs operate freely in the terraced streets.

She added: "It doesn't shock me anymore because I'm used to hearing it. You hear it on a daily basis, about new girls on a daily basis.

"All you can do really is help them, and I wouldn't advise people to go to the police because they don't do anything. I'd rather take it into my own hands."

A third victim said: "It's just as bad as it was before because they just don't care - they don't want to tackle it.”

In shocking testimony the father of one girl who was raped by the criminal gangs told how packs of young Kashmiri men linked to her abuser still turn up outside his home to intimidate the family.

McLaughlin said his book has been largely ignored by the European left. It contains research that blows away the theory, widely reported in the media, that it’s a tiny minority of Muslim men involved in the rape gangs and then only in one British town, Rotherham.

The phenomenon works something like this. A gang of Muslim “Asians” seeks out, pursues, chats up and cultivates school girls for sex, turning them into bodies for sale.

McLaughlin argues in his exhaustive study that it’s at least 300 Muslim men who were preying on girls in Rotherham over a 16-year period. And the same type of gangs have been operating in dozens of cities across the United Kingdom, as well as in Muslim areas of the Netherlands and Sweden. In the Netherlands the gangs are called "lover boys."

“In 2008 one of the policing agencies having to do with sex trafficking commissioned a 20-minute educational video to be shown to school girls to show how the gangs operate,” McLoughlin told WND. “They hang around schools and malls and use an attractive young man to convince them he wants to be their boyfriend and he gets them to drink and do drugs and then she has sex with him and later his ‘brothers’ and his ‘uncles’ and whomever else he pimps her out to."

That video was never actually shown to the girls, he said. And Britain’s homage to political correctness led police and child-welfare advocates to cover up what was happening for fear of being called racists.