A newly released government review has blown the lid off one of Britain’s most taboo scandals: the growing number of grooming gang cases involving migrants and asylum seekers. The review, led by Baroness Louise Casey, found that a “significant proportion” of suspects in current child sexual exploitation investigations are non-British nationals, many of whom are actively claiming asylum in the United Kingdom.

The report is likely to put intense pressure on the government to crack down on illegal migration, especially as record numbers continue crossing the English Channel from France.

While the review examined past grooming gang scandals—most notoriously involving men of Pakistani heritage exploiting young white working-class girls—it also focused on approximately a dozen ongoing police operations. These current cases, though still under investigation, are reportedly dominated by non-UK nationals.

Baroness Casey described an appalling level of official denial. In one case, she discovered that the word “Pakistani” had been manually erased from a child’s file using Tipex, revealing a culture more interested in avoiding charges of racism than protecting vulnerable victims.

“I think you’ve got sort of do-gooders that don’t really want this to be found because, you know, ‘Oh, God, then all the racists are going to be more racist,’” Casey told Sky News.

The review explicitly called out the government’s failure to track the ethnic background of perpetrators. “The appalling lack of data on ethnicity in crime recording alone is a major failing over the last decade or more. Questions about ethnicity have been asked but dodged for years,” the report reads.

Casey’s findings echo what has long been whispered in hushed tones: that child sexual exploitation in the UK has a demographic component, and political correctness has allowed predators to operate under the radar. Prior investigations revealed that local authorities and police often refused to pursue leads out of fear of igniting racial tensions—an attitude that may have enabled some of the worst abuse cases in British history.

The report’s implications are seismic. It calls for immediate reforms in how law enforcement tracks and reports the ethnicity and immigration status of offenders. While several European countries like Denmark openly report crime statistics by national origin, the UK has conspicuously avoided doing so—until now.

Adding further weight to the review, recent Freedom of Information data obtained by the Daily Mail showed that Sudanese migrants are 20 times more likely than native Britons to be arrested for sex crimes, while Afghan migrants were 18 times more likely. In contrast, migrants from Canada or Germany had lower arrest rates than British natives.

These findings have led to growing calls for migration policies that prioritize applicants from low-crime nations and stricter background checks for asylum seekers. Critics argue that the current system—particularly under lax border enforcement—has invited not just vulnerable individuals fleeing conflict, but predators exploiting leniency.

The Casey report makes it clear that sentimentality and political optics have clouded the judgment of public officials. Protecting vulnerable girls should never be sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.

Until government leaders confront the data and stop silencing inconvenient truths, the risk to Britain’s children will persist—and the disgrace will grow.