THERE is usually one, stand-out line contained in official reports into child abuse or neglect.

This line tends to blow the lid off the dark, horrible world of official incompetence and indifference to the suffering of the victims and explains the mindset that allowed the atrocities to continue.

And in the Serious Case Review into the Oxfordshire paedophile ring – in which 373 girls were sexually abused and tortured by a gang of men who were mainly ‘of Pakistani heritage’ – the killer line is the one uttered by the social worker about a desperate father who had asked for help to locate his missing daughter.

That social worker said this father was: “Obsessed with finding her when she goes missing.”

I could end this column here, really, because that just about says it all.

In modern Britain a father who is off his head with worry about his child, who is being systematically raped and tortured by an organised gang, is seen as the problem by so-called professionals whose job it is to protect the vulnerable from harm and exploitation.

Those social workers – and all the other snivelling officials who turned a blind eye to the threatened beheadings, the blood pouring down the bodies of young girls, to the sight of men controlling teenagers – repeatedly failed to help because, in the words of the review, they believed the victims were: “consenting or bringing problems on themselves”.

I could ask how we have arrived at this appalling situation.

But that would be pointless, wouldn’t it, because we KNOW how it’s happened.

It’s because this country is in the grip of a pernicious, liberalist elite whose motives and opinions are so warped they now see multiple rape victims as young as 13 as people who have made ‘lifestyle choices’ to exist that way.

They believe in dishing out contraceptives to 13-year-olds because ‘they’ll do it anyway’ and ‘they have to be safe’, as if any girl was safe having sex at that age.

They are the ones pushing for primary school tots to be bombarded with information about sex and how to do it.

And I have no shred of doubt they are also the people who worship at the altar of the Human Rights Act, a piece of legislation that has singularly and horrendously failed to safeguard the human right of little girls in Oxfordshire, Rotherham and Bristol to be protected from predatory men, whose racial and religious background was THEIR protection, thanks to the pervading stench of political correctness, as denounced by the report into the Rotherham child sex abuse scandal.

As is customary in these cases NOT ONE person has been sacked, rebuked, prosecuted, or lost their job or their fat pension because of what happened in Oxford.

And that, along with the ‘heritage’ of the perpetrators and the hopeless existence of the victims is what links these cases and why we will keep on having them.

People are paid vast and indecent six-figure sums to head up police and social services and council departments.

The reason this money is paid is because we know they have a difficult job to do. The money is, we hope, some compensation for what we assume are the hours of lying awake worrying over what to do – take the child away from its parents or not, axe the funding for this scheme or that.

Well, with big money comes big responsibility.

And these people have not taken it.

I can’t do much about Oxfordshire and its useless, failing officials who allowed this abomination to occur.

But having read that some of the victims were allegedly trafficked to Bournemouth, all the time I’m writing this column I can promise there will never be an end to the fury, the vicious words and the public shaming I will rain down on anyone discovered to be derelict in their duty towards children on this manor.

As the Oxfordshire case sadly confirms, it’s the only punishment any of them ever face.

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She doesn’t parade around with him because: “Someone has to take the children to school,” and, she says, he doesn’t even know where he ironing board is kept.

Her life sounds like a lot of other women’s. Especially the bit where her old man constantly makes an ass of himself in public and doesn’t do enough to help round the house.

The first rule of elections is that it’s always the wife who is more interesting and who would make the better candidate. Apart from Cherie Blair, obviously.

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So if UK border guards really didn’t speak to the three London schoolgirls who are probably right this moment planning their first terror attack, then I suspect it may have more to do with a fear of being thought racist or prejudiced, than being plain slack.

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RIP Konstandinos Erik Scurfield

‘GREATER love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.’ 

Greater still is the man who lays down his life to help people he’s never met before, just because he cannot bear to see them suffer appalling injustice.  Konstandinos Erik Scurfield, the Royal Marine killed fighting with the Kurdish Peshmerga against the barbarians of Islamic State was that man.  I know he will not be given any medals for his conviction, his guts and his gallantry. But he should be. RIP Big Man.