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When it comes to violence against women, not all victims are treated equally by our society.

The most blatant example of this double standard comes via the bombshell of yet another child sex grooming scandal in the United Kingdom.

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Last time, it was Rotherham, and we learned that for four decades police and politicians had quietly looked the other way while more than 1,500 girls were abused by so-called grooming gangs in the northern English town.

This time around, we’re learning of a potentially even bigger scandal in the town of Telford.

In both cases, members of South Asian and Pakistani gangs began grooming girls as young as 11 into prostitution. These gangsters deliberately targeted girls from poor and broken families with a pattern that repeated itself: vulnerable girls are lured in, given drugs, raped, beaten and abused before being pushed into prostitution rings.

We’ve learned girls were ignored by police despite repeated appeals and that many in positions of power knew about the grooming gangs and chose to do nothing.