9 h. ago £2.4m support for victims of child exploitation and grooming gangs in London

Scotland Yard is re-examining 9,000 cases over the past 15 years

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9 h. ago London gets £2.4m child exploitation and grooming gangs support

London gets £2.4m child exploitation and grooming gangs support  London Evening Standard

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41 h. ago Child murderer Colin Pitchfork 'groomed and sexually assaulted young inmate'

Colin Pitchfork, who was jailed for life for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth, was sexually motivated when he assaulted a young inmate, parole documents reveal

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45 h. ago Child killer Colin Pitchfork 'groomed then sexually assaulted young inmate in cell'

Parole Board documents reveal Colin Pitchfork - jailed for raping and strangling 15-year-olds Lynda Mann and Dawn Ashworth in Leicestershire - was sexually motivated when he assaulted a young inmate

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6 d. ago Pensioner charged with multiple rapes and child sex offences

Hubert Placide, 68, also known as Wadha, has been charged with four counts of rape, meeting a child following grooming, sexual assualt of a female and gross indeceny with a child.

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6 d. ago Glasgow 'grooming gang' victim urges John Swinney to launch child exploitation probe

EXCLUSIVE: The young woman has contacted the First Minister directly about her experience.

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7 d. ago Married At First Sight UK bride breaks down in tears as she drops a bombshell on her husband... and makes a dramatic U

The remaining couples get together for one final time to share if they want to stay together after the experiment.

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1 week ago ‘Unjust’ grooming ‘child prostitution’ convictions to be pardoned

Home Office acknowledges victims were ‘criminalised for actions that occurred under duress, fear and coercion’

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2 w. ago Grooming gang investigations dropped by police because of ‘potentially human error’

Thousands of investigations that ended without a conviction will be reviewed as part of Operation Beaconport

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2 w. ago Child bride faces execution in Iran for killing her abusive husband unless she can pay £80,000 blood money

Goli Koukhan has spent seven years on death row in Gorgan, in Northern Iran and has a deadline of December to raise the huge sum of money.

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3 w. ago Married at First Sight star blindsides bride with 'two words she never expected'

Married At First Sight UK bride was left speechless after her husband made a brutal confession during the latest commitment ceremony.

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3 w. ago Married at First Sight bride blindsided as husband makes bombshell confession

The current series of Married At First Sight UK has been packed with explosive moments since it make its return to our TV screens.

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3 w. ago Brave grooming gang victim who was drugged and raped as a child says she 'doesn't trust Keir Starmer' after quitting 'toxic' inquiry

Ellie-Ann Reynolds, 24, from Barrow-in-Furness in Cumbria, has spent 11 years trying to get people to hear her as she has bravely opened up about the horrific abuse she suffered as a child.

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3 w. ago 'I was groomed to be a child bride and how to please my husband from 14'

A tradition that used to be commonplace is now being fought by the very victims of the crime. Even leaders are stepping in and fining the aggressors a cow.

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4 w. ago Watch live: Keir Starmer faces PMQs grilling on child grooming gang inquiry

Watch live as Sir Keir Starmer and Kemi Badenoch face off in Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday (22 October).

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4 w. ago Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos: Labour probe into child sex abuse falling apart as potential chairman and three victims pull out amid 'cover

In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage. Three victims have also resigned from an advisory group, labelling it a 'cover-up'.

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4 w. ago Grooming gangs inquiry in chaos: Labour probe into child sex abuse falling apart as potential chairman and three victims pull out amid 'cover

In a farcical development, a candidate to lead the child sexual abuse review pulled out at a late stage.

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4 w. ago Third survivor of child sex abuse quits grooming gangs inquiry panel

The survivor said she was ‘deeply concerned that there still isn’t a genuine understanding of the grooming gangs scandal’.

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last month First man jailed under child online safety act for grooming and abusing girl

Karl Davies, 42, a father-of-two from the Wirral, admitted and has been convicted of 17 offences relating to a school girl aged between 13 and 14.

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