[Sherman Logan]

I think you're being very unfair to the author, who seems to be a rare "honest lefty.

For those who endured the abuse, the racial origin of their attacker will seem irrelevant.

Here you disagree. But I think you're missing that in the very next sentence he disagrees himself.

But as we’ve seen, it wasn’t irrelevant because it was their racial origin that contributed to the abuse continuing unchecked for so long. That’s why we must never again allow a situation to develop where racism is allowed to flourish simply because it challenges our conventional belief of what racism is.

The children of Rotherham were abused racially, as well as sexually, physically and psychologically. We don’t just have a right to say that, we have an obligation.

This conclusion is highly un-PC and I was quite surprised to see it in The Telegraph.

[Albion Wilde]

I hear you; but his main concern with the racism seems merely that fears of racism served as cover for the rapists, not that the girls would suffer any additional personal consequence of involuntarily having a baby of a different heritage.