Being blamed. In the UK, police cannot prosecute suspects in major crimes like rape without the Crown Prosecution Service’s consent.
When rape gangs were permitted to take advantage of young girls without suffering consequences, who was in charge of the CPS?
As head prosecutor in 2012, Sir Keir acknowledged that the CPS had failed a generation of abused girls and ordered a thorough review of the agency’s sexual exploitation standards.
At the time, he said that prosecutors should not “shy away from that” since there was “clearly an issue of ethnicity” in some grooming instances.
However, if we’re being honest, it was the victims’ treatment and the credibility problem that prevented these instances from being prosecuted in the past, Sir Keir said. There wasn’t enough comprehension.
He continued by blaming prosecuting attorneys for undermining the credibility of witnesses due to false “assumptions, myths, and stereotypes” about sexual assault.
