They have been. This is now being addressed and discussed openly within communities to educate and discuss the law regarding this 'cultural' cruelty. Thank goodness. It was ignored and shunned due to this being an ethnic community thing and not to get involved. with the influx of 'refugees' and immigrants from these cultures it will and is already overwhelming our stretched resources.
However, The British authorities have no remit to go into these countries and make arrests. We just don't have the funding or the resources. and that has nothing to do with Islamophobia as it happens in Christian areas of Africa and the middle east.
At one time no one would talk about the sadistic catholic priest/nuns abuse of children over the centuries...my how things have changed.
Thank goodness for that change.
If a priest abused, the standard punishment was to tell him not to do it again, then promote him to some other place miles away .... where it started all over again.
It happened several times, even at Ampleforth College, which is the Roman Catholic equivalent of Eton. Basil Hume, the then headmaster and Abbott, kept it all under wraps, but then he was promoted to a Cardinal ... and it all came out.
Some sympathy has to be extended to him because he himself was educated at this Benedictine boarding school, so had likely been immersed in the culture for most of his life.
It was he that led the campaign for the lowering of the "Age of Concent" down to 14y.o. IIRC.
JK Rowling based her Harry Potter books on Ampleforth College. She talked extensively about it (half page+ in The Daily Telegraph) a few years ago
She also based ALBUS Dumbledore on BASIL Hume.
Check it out if you dont believe me
bet this gets wiped or severely truncated!