Over recent months, a shift in public sentiment has been taking shape in Rochdale. Conversations in community spaces, local forums, and informal gatherings suggest that many residents are now questioning long‑standing narratives around the prosecution — or lack thereof — of sexual abuse in the town. For years, much of the national attention on Rochdale has centred on grooming gang scandals involving men of Pakistani heritage. While those cases rightly provoked outrage and led to important convictions, a growing number of people here believe that the focus has sometimes been so narrow that it has obscured other forms of abuse — and, crucially, other perpetrators. Some residents say they are becoming more aware of situations in which alleged offenders from other backgrounds, including white British individuals and newer migrant communities from Eastern Europe, do not appear to face the same level of media scrutiny or law‑enforcement pressure. Whether these perceptions reflect the rea...