The Government has come under fire for refusing to hold a national inquiry into the abuse of young girls by networks of men ...

The grooming gangs scandal is back in the headlines after Elon Musk attacked Sir Keir Starmer and minister Jess Phillips for failing children. The tech billionaire has accused Sir Keir of being ...

There are grooming gangs "in every single part of our country", Jess Phillips has told Sky News. The safeguarding minister told Sky's political editor Beth Rigby on the Electoral Dysfunction ...

Responding to Musk’s accusations that he failed to act decisively on grooming gangs, Starmer emphasized his efforts to reform the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS), including reopening closed ...

“Our Hindu and Sikh girls were also victims of these grooming gangs, and using this vague term insults all Asians.” Pakistani Grooming Gangs not Asian: Why British-Indians are angry at UK PM K ...

The cases came to be known as the “grooming gangs” scandal. In 2014, the findings of a yearslong official investigation into such abuse in the northern English town of Rotherham set off a ...

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Rajya Sabha MP Priyanka Chaturvedi said the blame for grooming gangs in UK cannot be laid on Asia, but "one rogue nation" Pakistan, a statement SpaceX and Tesla CEO Elon Musk said was "true".

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Some 85% of ‘group-based’ child abusers were white in the first three quarters of 2024 (Brian Jackson/Alamy/PA) The vast majority of grooming gang offences are carried out by white men ...

The United Kingdom has long tried to bury its history of grooming gangs, which have sexually abused thousands of young girls over several decades. Over the years, authorities have been accused of ...

Grooming gangs are behind almost two child sexual abuse offences a day reported to police, the first analysis of its kind has revealed. Data from all 43 forces in England and Wales show there were ...