British screenwriter and film producer, Jemima Goldsmith, emphasized that the issue of child sexual abuse, or grooming, in the UK is a broader issue and not confined to any specific community. She mentioned that sexual abuse spans across all communities, ethnic backgrounds, and religions. According to her, the common thread in such abuses is men abusing their power, often from closed, hierarchical, gender-segregated communities.
Jemima also shared statistics regarding abuse cases involving the Catholic Church, British boarding schools, and UK Asian grooming gangs, highlighting that many of these cases go unreported for years, and there have been failures in prosecuting perpetrators and protecting victims.
