I suspect because it’s been big news in UK and everybody knows the basic story over there. The author wasn’t reporting, he was writing an opinion column on a well-known story.
Here’s some background.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotherham_sex_grooming_case
The report says five (or is it eight) Pakistani men were convicted in 2010 of raping seven white children, but provided no details -- did they walk into the schools and grab children?
How does this go on and "nobody knows"?
Then we are told, no the number was 50 girls, but now it's 58, as of 2012.
But then three members of one family alone abused 61 girls!
How does this happen?
Are there no parents? No teachers? No police?
Sixty-one girls and not one complained? Nobody ever knew?
Now we see a report where it's said, no, the number is not seven children raped, it's not 58, it's not another 61, it's 1,400!
The mind boggles, the head spins, are we talking about England here, or Britistan?
I don't believe this data, I don't "get" what's going on, something is wrong -- very wrong -- with this entire picture.
What is it?