Rupert Lowe, leader of the Restore Britain party, said in Westminster that the British Parliament had a duty to confront the full horror of the abuses committed by Muslim grooming gangs and stop “talking” while children continue to be failed. This is reported by Remix News.

Lowe used a debate in Westminster Hall on Monday to confront Members of Parliament with heart-rending testimony from white girls and women who were raped, tortured, trafficked and humiliated by migrant gangs, and abandoned by the very authorities that should have protected them.

The debate was secured after 260,974 Britons signed a petition calling on Parliament in London to address the grooming gang scandal. Lowe opened by thanking the signatories and welcoming survivors present in the chamber, saying that the debate was not about politics but about them.

“I want the world to hear what we heard during the two weeks of our independent grooming gang hearings, an inquiry that should never have been necessary,” said Lowe.

He then read out a series of graphic testimonies exposing the scale of the abuse inflicted on almost exclusively white girls. One survivor said that she was only “about 12, nearly 13” when a man raped her before forcing an empty Jack Daniel’s bottle into her and shattering the glass.

Another described being held down by groups of men who raped her in turn before beating her and threatening to kill her and harm those closest to her if she ever spoke out.

Lowe told Members of Parliament that the evidence presented during his inquiry included repeated allegations that white British girls had been deliberately targeted for abuse.

One survivor said that the perpetrators constantly referred to “white girls” and “Christian girls”, claiming that they had “less morality or lower values”, while Muslim girls were described as possessing “dignity and higher moral status”.

Another alleged victim said that race “played a role” in the selection of victims, adding that the girls she encountered during the exploitation were “almost exclusively white”.

The testimonies also contained allegations that children in care were effectively handed over to abusers. One survivor said that men would sound their car horns outside a children’s home before a staff member brought a child to the front door. Another said: “It was all the white girls in every home I went to.”

In one of the most disturbing accounts read to Members of Parliament, a survivor recalled seeing the rear doors of a van opened to reveal “15, 20 girls locked in dog cages”.

Another said that dogs were brought in during an assault while men stood around filming, laughing and placing bets on what would happen. She said that she had nowhere to move and was raped by a dog while a man held her face and stared into her eyes because “he wanted to watch me break down”.

Lowe also read testimony from a survivor who said she was raped by “probably around six or seven hundred different men” over a three-year period after the abuse began when she was 13 years old.

Another said that the abuse escalated around Eid and Islamic holidays, when the gatherings became “bigger, worse and more violent”, involving more men and more girls.

The Restore Britain leader claimed that institutions repeatedly failed the victims. One girl said that she went to hospital at the age of 15, bleeding, swollen and unable to sit down after an assault, but was given tablets and discharged after telling staff that someone had put something in her drink, because she was too frightened to say what had really happened.

“They asked no questions,” she said.

Another survivor alleged that she had been raped by several police officers in different parts of the country. Another testimony alleged that a man extinguished a cigarette on a baby’s face.

Lowe said that the abuse was also used to attack the victims’ faith and identity. One Christian survivor said that her cross was used as a means of breaking her, with the perpetrators asking:

“Where is your God now? Has your God abandoned you?”

The politician said that he could have continued reading testimony “for hours”, warning that Parliament no longer had any excuse for inaction.

“All of us in this building have a responsibility finally to act. Not to talk, but to act,” he said. “The report from our grooming gang inquiry will be published in the coming days. It will change Britain forever.”

Rupert Lowe launched his own independent inquiry before the British Government announced a statutory national investigation into grooming gangs, an inquiry that uncovered evidence of child sexual exploitation in dozens of local authority areas.

A grooming gang consisting predominantly of South Asian Muslim men was sentenced to a combined total of 277 years’ imprisonment following an extensive investigation into the sexual abuse of British girls as young as 12.