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Elon Musk has recently attacked the UK government over multiple issues.
SpaceX, Tesla and X CEO Elon Musk questioned the UK government over the Rotherham sex scandal. (IMAGE: REUTERS FILE)
Tech mogul Elon Musk continued his attack on the UK government this week, targeting UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer over the Rotherham sex scandal.
“Good question. And this happened on a massive scale. Genocidal rape,” Musk said, while reacting to a post by Swedish journalist Peter Imanuelsen.
Starmer was complicit in the RAPE OF BRITAIN when he was head of Crown Prosecution for 6 years.Starmer must go and he must face charges for his complicity in the worst mass crime in the history of Britain.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) January 3, 2025
Imanuelsen also claimed that the press in the UK did not properly cover the Rotherham sex scandals.
The tech tycoon criticized the British government online after the decision was made in October. He accused Keir Starmer of not effectively prosecuting rape gangs during his tenure as Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP).
Musk repeatedly shared posts from Reform and Conservative MPs demanding a national inquiry into the issue. As an advisor to incoming US President Donald Trump, Musk’s comments attracted significant attention.
He labeled the prime minister “Two-Tier Keir” and accused Phillips of being a “rape genocide apologist.”
Musk’s latest comment on UK politics followed safeguarding minister Phillips’ direction to Oldham Council to start a local inquiry into historic child sexual abuse.
In September 2012, the UK-based Times reported on a confidential 2010 police document that warned of thousands of child sexual exploitation crimes occurring annually in South Yorkshire, primarily involving networks of Pakistani-origin men.
Despite decades of prior knowledge, police and child protection agencies in Rotherham failed to prosecute many of these offences, the report revealed.
In response, Rotherham Borough Council, South Yorkshire Police and other agencies established a Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE) team to address the concerns highlighted.
The council later commissioned an independent inquiry, led by a professor named Alexis Jay, to probe the failures in handling these crimes.
The 2014 report by Jay revealed that at least 1,400 children in Rotherham had been subjected to sexual abuse. It detailed horrifying accounts of girls as young as 11 being raped, trafficked, abducted, beaten and intimidated, with the perpetrators predominantly of Pakistani heritage.
A key factor was officials’ fear of being labeled racist, as most perpetrators were of Pakistani heritage. By 2009, despite government reforms, prosecutions remained limited while survivors continued to face long-term trauma and lacked adequate support.
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