Posted on 09/07/2014 8:13:47 AM PDT by RoosterRedux
I talk to George Igler of the Discourse Institute who has been following the Rotherham child rape gang story closely for the last three years. The full story is more shocking than you can possibly imagine, not just because of the ugliness of the abuse itself (redolent of that horrible scene from the movie Taken where smack-addled girls are serially abused in a filthy dive by countless grubby men) but also because of the extent of the cover-up by the left-liberal establishment of social workers, local government officers, child welfare charities, diversity co-ordinators, not to mention the regional police forces and even imams.
Truly this is one of the biggest scandals of our time. And it's going to get bigger.
Here are some of the disturbing revelations in the podcast.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Color me highly skeptical. I'm sure there's a financial incentive here, in addition to the racial/religious expression of hatred. But I sincerely doubt there's any such number involved for "each child."
I'll bet wherever the number originated, it said "up to" rather than "each," and I'd be skeptical of even that number.
The numbers just don't work.
For a girl to gross $300,000/year, assuming a five-day week, she'd have to average $6000/week, $1200/day.
I recommend the book Freakonomics, which carefully examined the economics of prostitution in USA. Turns out there are two varieties, one of which is simple street prostitution. Low rent sex for money. Prices are surprisingly low, with hookers averaging gross income of $25 to $35 per hour, largely because of competition that doesn't charge anything for its "services." Classic dinner and movie date is a lot more expensive than just hiring a street hooker. 40 hour weeks, $35/hour works out to a max of $70,000/year.
The other main type of prostitution is the type Charlie Sheen and Spitzer patronized. It's MUCH more profitable. But as the book points out, they aren't really selling sex as such, they're selling the trophy wife fantasy on an hourly basis. The top players in this group might make something like the income described in the article, or even more, but by definition they are model types, not the abused street girls of the story.
The girls in Rotherham were most definitely part of the street version, not the fantasy version. AFAIK, they also seldom if ever "worked" full-time.
IOW, the numbers in the article are bogus. Luckily. If there were such financial incentives to enslaving females, the problem would be a lot worse than it is. Of course, the economics of the market ensure that if these kinds of profits were to be made, the market would soon be flooded with competion, causing prices and profits to drop.
Click the pic to link to the full-text Free Republic thread.
Same as in the US. Target ‘at-risk’ young girls using younger gang members to befriend them.
While the math may not work there is no doubt these crimes took place and no doubt about who committed them.
Try them in a court of law and when convicted drag them into the public square a hang them.
In the oldest Christian traditions, the Virgin Mary was 12 when the angel Gabriel appeared to her and she became pregnant.
Juliet, of course, was just turned 13. As her mother had been when she was married and pregnant.
Under English and American common law, the “age of consent” was 12 or below till the late 19th century, when reformers got to work on the issue. In most states it was 10. In Delaware, it was 7!
http://www.omgfacts.com/History/The-age-of-consent-in-Delaware-used-to-b/58707
The above is presented strictly to provide some historical context on the issue. I’m perfectly happy with modern laws and would be glad to see them enforced strictly.
Works for me.
Why not. Everything you can make money on is "like drugs".
If they charged $50 per, a girl could easily bring in $1,200 a day.
Rotherham is more proof that liberalism is a mental disorder.
These lo IQ inbred monsters raping all these fair English girls is beyond revolting. If it were up to me each Muzzie with multiple rapes would get shot in the nuts by the female victims and put in prison. I would deport his filthy inbred family that’s sucking down welfare benefits
In some cultures, e.g. where there's no payoff to any education beyond bare litercy and enough arithmetic to run a roadside vegetable stand, it makes absoluete good sense for girls to marry young. For one thing, childbearing is at its safest in the teens --- child-raising, too --- when the young mother's health and energy are at their peak, before diabetes, hypertension, kidney failure and the dgenerative diseases of age set in.
Possibly. However, I doubt a girl would last very long under such conditions, and they’d have to keep replacing “stock,” which of course cuts into profits.
From what I’ve read of this horrible case, the prostitution seems to have been handled on a very amateurish basis, working out of cars and taxis, etc. Not an efficient assembly line type process at all.
I don’t know what the guys in movie were charging, but I know the product shown wasn’t very appealing, and I can’t imagine they would find buyers for a price that was very high at all. BTW, there have been similar cases in this country. Cops broke one up in FL a while back. The girls were kept chained to beds and serviced migrant farm workers. Doubt the charge was very high.
I’m unfortunately not an economist, but there’s a way to calculate purchase price for an asset based on the income it is capable of producing.
IF a girl were indeed capable of consistently generating $300,000/year, then by far the most profitable trade would be enslaving them and selling them to the pimps. But I don’t know how to calculate how much each girl would go for.
In a recent thread about ISIS, members were chatting online about prices for Yezidi and Christian slave girls. They were going for $200 to $350. Does not line up with a potential earning capacity like that described in the article.
However, it’s also likely the market in the areas controlled by ISIS has been flooded, depressing prices.
I'm going to guess that their customers are predominantly Muslim men, who are culturally used to imposing themselves on young girls.
I’m not sure this story is describing teen marriage.
Rape is, of course, objectionable at any age. Especially in the kinds of aggravated forcible cases as those described in the article, it ought to be punished by the death penalty.
And I think the effective careers of these girls is pretty short anyway.
As to the value of the sex slaves in the ISIS part of the world, $200 to $350 would mean something very different than the value in the UK.
I agree that the business appears to be very informal and amateurish, but were are after all dealing with sand monkeys;-).
I can't yet calculate the value of the girls but overtime we will hopefully learn a great deal more about this business as it is exposed.
I think the reason a lot of it is conducted in taxis is because muslims control the taxi business in the areas in which this is occurring and because it is a cheap, safe (cops are paid to look the other way), and quick way to transact this business .
As a final note, I imagine that much of the money collected goes to protection--to the police, social services, commissioners who keep this horrific crime out of the public eye.
Correction: I didn’t mean to say that “much” of the money collected goes to protection. I should have said that a goodly sum goes to protection.
I have yet to see a single claim that cops or social workers were paid off. Could have been, of course.
That’s the horror and the novelty of this story. Corrupt cops have always existed, and always will.
Cops who refuse to do their job out of a fear of being called racist is quite new. As are social workers who are harassed and have their data stolen by coworkers and supervisors when they report what’s going on.
Not everybody was complicit. Some tried to do their jobs, but were silenced by the others.
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