I an sure they knew about it but had decided that the girls had chosen this life. And if you had asked a girl who had been groomed they would probably have said they consented and they loved these men, who were probably nice to them at first, bought them presents , treated them like grown ups. Kids are programmed to please adults. We all groom them to do that.

This whole sorry mess cries out for sex and relationship education, with emphasis on the relationship bit, at an early age.

The fact that this involves Pakistani Muslim men must be about the fact that sex outside marriage is prohibited in their culture but not in secular white culture.