In April 2023, a group of twenty-one individuals, overwhelmingly white and British-born, were convicted in the West Midlands in one of the most significant child sexual abuse prosecutions in UK history. Known as Operation Satchel, the case involved the prolonged abuse of seven children over a decade in areas such as Walsall and Wolverhampton. The abuse was systemic, coordinated, and devastating. The details are horrifying: children as young as 12 were groomed, raped, and filmed.
Yet outside of mainstream headlines and regional reporting, this case has barely registered on the national political radar, and it has been met with deafening silence from the usual quarters of performative outrage: the far-right, right-wing tabloids, and the ecosystem of self-appointed “anti-grooming” campaigners.
This is not a coincidence. It is a pattern.
For over a decade, far-right figures and their enablers in media have fixated on a handful of high-profile child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases, particularly in Rotherham, Telford, Rochdale, and Oxford, in which the majority of perpetrators were of South Asian Muslim background. These crimes were indeed abhorrent, and the failures of institutions to act due to misplaced sensitivities around race were rightly condemned.
But what followed was not a serious, society-wide reckoning with child abuse. Instead, the far right seized these cases and turned them into racial ammunition, feeding a narrative that blamed multiculturalism, Islam, and immigration itself for the existence of child abuse, as if paedophilia were foreign to Britain’s shores before 1997.
Yet when faced with cases of equal or greater gravity committed by white offenders, often from within families, care systems, churches, and even police forces, the same voices go quiet. Consider the following examples:
Exposing Far Right Paedophiles And Terrorists
1. The West Midlands Case (2023) – 21 Convicted, Mostly White
Despite being the largest child abuse investigation in West Midlands Police history, Operation Satchel was met with near-total silence from groups like Britain First, Patriotic Alternative, and right-wing figures who claim to campaign against child abuse. No marches. No leaflets. No videos demanding accountability. Why? Because the perpetrators were white. No political capital to be gained.
2. The Norfolk Care Home Scandal (2019) – Over 100 Victims
An inquiry found that vulnerable children in Norfolk care homes had been subjected to sexual abuse spanning decades. The majority of perpetrators were white British men in positions of trust: care workers, local officials, and even police. The abuse was systemic, aided by institutional indifference. It barely made national news and certainly didn’t appear on Tommy Robinson’s livestream.
3. Church of England Abuse Investigations (2020–Present)
Hundreds of victims have come forward detailing sexual abuse by clergy across England. The Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) found that the Church prioritised its reputation over child safety, often silencing victims. Again, predominantly white male perpetrators. Where were the anti-grooming campaigners then?
4. Operation Pallial (North Wales, 2012–2019) – Dozens Convicted
Following decades of complaints, police uncovered widespread child sexual abuse in North Wales care homes. Many victims had been ignored for years. This historic abuse was perpetrated almost entirely by white British men; again, no rallies, no headlines in The Sun, no placards or protests.
5. Football Abuse Scandal (2016–2020) – Over 800 Victims
One of the most extensive paedophilia scandals in UK history emerged when former footballers came forward with allegations against youth coaches. The scandal implicated dozens of men, including Barry Bennell, who was found guilty of abusing scores of boys. Not a single far-right protest emerged, despite the scope of the abuse.
What This Tells Us
When abuse is committed by white Britons, particularly in institutions like churches, schools, care homes, or families, the far right looks away. Their interest in child protection vanishes. Their placards and megaphones are nowhere to be seen.
Because it was never really about protecting children. It was about demonising minorities.
The facts are inconvenient for them: according to the Home Office’s own 2020 review, group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. Abuse occurs across all demographics. And the vast majority of child sexual abuse happens within the home, not in back alleys or taxis, and overwhelmingly by someone known to the victim.
Yet this truth undermines the simplistic, racialised fictions propagated by far-right groups who exploit victims’ suffering to whip up hate, not to achieve justice.
The Cost of Their Hypocrisy
This selective outrage is not merely cynical; it’s dangerous. It creates a false racial profile of abuse, which risks blinding authorities, the media, and the public to warning signs outside that profile. It undermines victims whose abusers “don’t fit the narrative.” It fosters mistrust in genuine child protection campaigns. And it divides communities who should be united in stamping out abuse in all its forms.
The far right will not admit this, because their ideology requires enemies, not nuance. But independent media must hold the line, because justice must never depend on the ethnicity of the offender.
