Elon Musk has “politicized” the abduction of girls in the UK in an attempt to target Keir Starmera former health worker who reported a major pedophile ring to the police.
Sarah Rowbotham, who gathered evidence that would lead to nine people in Rochdale being jailed, said the billionaire’s technique was “politically correct” in a prime minister who ignored the plight of survivors of abuse.
Mr Tesla, who will play a key role in the incoming administration of Donald Trump, on Friday called on King Charles to step in and dissolve parliament after he rejected calls for a national inquiry into child worship.
Musk made the order on Thursday in a child abuse trial in Oldham on Starmer after he suggested the prime minister should not bring “gangs of kidnappers” to justice when he was director of public prosecutions.
Rowbotham, who made hundreds of thousands of referrals detailing sexual abuse and betting while working for the NHS in Rochdale between 2005 and 2011, said: “What is it? [Musk’s] Does it prevent the case? It seems very political. The person he is trying to follow is Keir Starmer – he is a political smear who has nothing to do with women and girls who have been abused over time.
Musk, who is 10, formerly Twitter, has used the social media site to post or repost about child abuse in the UK more than 40 times in the past four hours.
Some letters from UK MPs included Reform UK’s Rupert Lowe and the Tories’ Robert Jenricke, while others include video featuring far-right activist Tommy Robinsonwho was jailed in October for 18 months for contempt of court.
On Friday, Musk shared a post asking whether the king had ordered the UK to “dissolve parliament and hold a general election for security reasons”. He retweeted the X thread with a one-word comment: “Yes.”
Guardian minister, Jess Phillips, previously suggested in a letter to Oldham that instead of leading a government inquiry, Oldham should follow in the footsteps of other towns such as Rotherham and Telford and commission their own inquiry into the historical abuse of children.
National investigation by Prof. Alexis Jay concluded in 2022, and research into Greater Manchester There have also been cases in Manchester, Oldham and Rochdale of police dealing with child sexual abuse.
Rowbotham, who was played by Maxine Peake in the award-winning BBC drama Three Girls, dismissed Musk’s demands for another public inquiry but said the UK still needed to get to the bottom of the case of pedophile rings he said were often dominated. from Asian people.
“We need to uncover the reasons, not just sexual, behind this abuse if we are to prevent it from happening again and again,” he said.
In a further intervention the father of the woman who testified as the main accuser against the Rochdale pedophile gang said he was an “alien” US billionaire trying to intervene in the UK.
The man, whose eldest daughter was older than the girl A was familiar with in court proceedings, said: “It’s amazing that the richest man in the world has got time to get involved in UK politics.”
Girl A was raped and abused in Rochdale by at least fifty men from the age of 12. His family discovered the abuse after he broke into a restaurant at the age of 14. While being interviewed by the police, the detectives told how she and the other girls. used for drugs and drink and often kidnapped and traded around nearby towns and cities.
Musk’s comments are criticized from two other key figures in the Rochdale investigation.
Asked about Musk’s comments on Friday, Wes Streeting, the health secretary, told ITV News the criticism was “perverse and certainly misleading”.
“Some criticisms that” Elon Musk He did, I think, they are wrong and they are wrong, but we want to work with Elon Musk, who I think has played a big role with his social media platforms to help us and other countries to tackle this serious problem.
“If he wants to work with us and roll up his sleeves, we’ll do it,” he said.