Three Girls

In order to achieve the fairly cohesive multicultural society we live in today, many laws were passed in order to prevent discrimination and prejudice based on religious, racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, which were pretty successful in their aims and formed a defensive, concrete wall around those who held on to such negative attitudes and their freedom to employ them in any capacity. But while they worked well to eliminate much of the racism around, there have been instances where these new mind sets were terribly subverted, especially by those in charge, where the protective wall of anti racism was abused by those it was meant to protect, never more horrifically than in Rochdale and several other Yorkshire towns, which this drama delves into.

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I happened to tune in to The Big Question last Sunday morning, and one of the topics that came up was the inexplicable question of whether white people could ever be victims of racism? Certain non white, funnily enough audience members had some pretty jaw dropping reasons why they couldn't, but this case certainly served to raise the bar on the issue, with these poor, emotionally neglected, not terribly well educated young girls being targeted for what appeared to be cultural reasons by large groups of Asian men, who saw them as inferior because of the way they behaved and their apparent lack of values.

Surely this serves to challenge this mind set. The portrayal of the girls by the young actresses involved is highly convincing and well done, even if they are perhaps inevitably out shined by established actress Peake, and in more background roles those depicting the predatory attackers also do well. There is a not terribly subtle nod to the Hollywood drama Spotlight when the full scale and amount of towns where the abuse took place is revealed.

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You must be a registered user to use the IMDb rating plugin. Learn more More Like This. Little Boy Blue Broken TV Series Born to Kill In the Dark Liar TV Series Edit Cast Series cast summary: Holly Winshaw 3 episodes, Ria Zmitrowicz Amber Bowen 3 episodes, Liv Hill Ruby Bowen 3 episodes, Paul Kaye Jim Winshaw 3 episodes, Rupert Procter Immy 3 episodes, Ross Anderson Julie Winshaw 3 episodes, Wasim Zakir Tariq 3 episodes, Zee Sulleyman Billy 3 episodes, Simon Nagra Daddy 3 episodes, Maxine Peake Sara Rowbotham 3 episodes, Naomi Radcliffe Yvonne 3 episodes, Lisa Riley Lorna Bowen 3 episodes, Jason Hughes Street dweller 3 episodes, Brian Fletcher Elliot Young 2 episodes, Kerrie Hayes Rachel Winshaw 2 episodes, Katherine Pearce Emily Stone 2 episodes, Ace Bhatti Nazir Afzal 2 episodes, Haider Mohammed Javed Saj 2 episodes, Ellie Lightfoot Zoe 2 episodes, Tebraiz Shahzad Tiger 2 episodes, Alison Reid Edit Storyline Based on three young girls who were groomed, sexually abused and trafficked by British Pakistani men in Rochdale and of the failure of the authorities to do anything about it.

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Was this review helpful to you? Gangs of men, predominantly of Pakistani origin, preyed on vulnerable girls by initially offering them drink, drugs and gifts, before raping and prostituting them.

That many of the victims came from council estates and poor backgrounds also provoked authorities to express little sympathy or interest in helping them. One girl, known as Girl A, was 15 years old and being driven to various locations to be raped by up to five men a night. When she became pregnant and teachers became concerned at the number of Pakistani men picking her up from school, the girl went to the police.

Numerous whistleblowers attempted to alert the authorities as to the widespread tragedy on their doorstep, but faced repeated setbacks. In , the nine men involved in the Rochdale scandal were sentenced, a group lead by year-old Shabir Ahmed, a former takeaway driver, who claimed during the trial that the girls in question were prostitutes and the real ringleaders of the scandal.

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He argued that they exhibited enough business acumen to have won The Apprentice. Nine further men involved in Rochdale grooming were jailed in So that's not about a failure to spot abuse, that is about actively ignoring abuse that was going on when it was brought to their attention. A second grooming gang, based in Rotherham, have also been imprisoned in recent years.

Rotherham and its levels of child grooming by predominantly Pakistani gangs mirrored the incidents in Rochdale. O ne witness told the report: The view was that they were little slags. They didn't understand the situation, and thought that the girls were happy, or complicit in it. The sense was that if there had been any offence it had been by the girls, for luring the men in. While an initial report from Professor Alexis Jay into the scandal earmarked the total number of victims at 1,, Labour MP Sarah Champion has suggested the figures are wrong.

With more and more victims coming forward, Champion said the figure could be closer to 2, This has allowed perpetrators to remain at large, has let victims down and, perversely, has allowed the far right to try and exploit the situation.