The investigation into the lapses that ultimately led to the death of Sara Sharif, the 10-year-old British girl of Pakistani and Polish ancestry in 2023, has disturbing wider ramifications. A report released recently indicates that at every step, judges, officials and social workers turned a blind eye to evidence of abuse and did not act, for fear of being branded racist or offending the “culture" of the community her family belonged to. Wokeness failed the little girl from Woking.

Had a white girl of her age suddenly begun wearing a scarf or some other accessory to cover herself up, social services would have immediately suspected she was hiding bruises or worse. But when little Sara started wearing a hijab, the authorities did not bother to probe whether she indeed decided to do so on her own as her serially abusive Pakistani father contended, though no other females in the family covered their heads in that manner. They failed Sara.

Had they been less woke—or afraid of the woke media and social media—they would have found out the horrific injuries that Sara suffered for years before the last assault finally killed her —over 100 of them, including 77 inflicted not long before her death. Though neighbours had reported screams and voiced concerns about the extreme cruelty of her Pakistani father Urfan Malik and his second spouse Beinash Batool, the complaints did not lead to Sara’s rescue.

Even more shockingly, though British family court judges had heard several times about Malik’s violence—due to which Sara’s mother had left him and several girlfriends had complained of extreme physical abuse—they sent her to live with that abusive father and........

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