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A police watchdog has upheld a complaint by a grooming gang victim against South Yorkshire Police that the force knew for years that child rapist Arshid Hussain was targeting girls in foster care and other “vulnerable young women” caught up in the widespread Rotherham grooming gang scandal.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made another two arrests connected to the abuse of nine girls in the grooming gang hotspot of Rotherham.

Britain’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has made sixteen new grooming gang arrests in Rotherham and Leeds as part of an investigation into historic sex crimes.

A Pakistan-themed venue has been rejected after concerns about local child sex exploitation and anti-social behaviour were raised.

Three Pakistani grooming gang members should be deported as a “matter of urgency” said a local MP, after it was revealed that they remain at large in the town in which they preyed on young white girls.

A grooming gang victim has spoken out after encountering her rapist out with a young child in a local supermarket, even though he was supposed to be deported.

A woman who says she was sexually abused and by Pakistani grooming gang members is now receiving racist abuse from “far-left groups” for speaking out online.

A report has found that police in Rotherham ignored decades of abuse carried out by ‘Asian’ grooming gangs against young girls for fear of sparking “racial tensions”.

The scourge of sexual exploitation of children has reached “epidemic” levels in the United Kingdom, as nearly 19,000 children were sexually groomed over the past year. Local authorities have reported over 18,700 suspected victims of child sexual exploitation at the

Six men have been convicted of the historic grooming and raping of vulnerable underaged girls in Rotherham, the latest convictions to come out of the National Crime Agency’s Operation Stovewood.

The Network of Sikh Organisations (NSO) has called on the media to stop referring to grooming gangs that are predominantly comprised of perpetrators from a Pakistani Muslim background as “Asian”, which inaccurately incorporates British Hindu and Sikh communities.

Police have arrested 40 suspects over the last two months in relation to a probe into allegations of serious child sex abuse in Rotherham, detectives have said.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been charged with another alleged historic child sex offence at Sheffield Crown Court.

The victim of a Bradford grooming gang has said that most girls at the children’s care home where she lived were being sexually exploited and has called for an inquiry, alleging that child rape gangs across the country — including Rochdale and Rotherham — are linked.

Former Labour Party politician and House of Lords peer Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has appeared in court with two of his brothers on historic child sex abuse charges.

Lord Ahmed of Rotherham has been charged with three counts of historic sexual offences against children under the age of 13.

A woman who was sexually abused as a teenager by violent, Rotherham grooming gang ringleader Arshid Hussain is demanding a change in the law to stop councils encouraging rapists to seek access to their victims’ children.

Six men of Pakistani heritage have been handed jail sentences for sexually abusing five underage girls in Rotherham following an eight-week trial, during which jurors heard the men had “destroyed” their victims’ childhoods.

Less than 20 percent of the identified 1,523 known victims of historic grooming and rape in Rotherham have been engaged by police.

Seven men of Pakistani heritage from South Yorkshire were found guilty of sexual offences against underage girls in the latest abuse trial following the inquiry into the Rotherham grooming gang scandal.

How could 1,400 girls in the northern English town of Rotherham be groomed, tortured, trafficked and raped by Muslim gangs right under the noses of the police?

A Rotherham grooming gang victim was allegedly raped by 100 ‘Asian’ men by the age of 16 after she was “passed around” by abusers from the age of just 13, a court has heard.

Eight men of South Asian origin from Rotherham, northern England, groomed and sexually abused five girls because they “were easy targets” and “wanted to be loved”, Prosecutor Michelle Colborne QC told Sheffield Crown Court on Tuesday.

The home secretary has ordered research into the ethnicity of grooming gangs and is working to improve the “targeting” of child sex abuse networks and “prevention activity.”

A Labour MP who spoke out against the UK’s “problem” with Pakistani grooming gangs has been given extra security by terror police after sustained attacks from “anti-racist” and Muslim interest groups.

Britain’s Home Office had received information about Pakistani grooming gangs raping vulnerable white girls more than a decade before it finally commissioned an investigation, a review has found.

Telford MP Lucy Allan has taken police to task for ignoring large-scale child sexual exploitation by mostly Muslim grooming gangs, with abusers only having to say they didn’t know the victim’s age to escape justice.

The defence lawyer for a Rotherham man on trial for sexually abusing two underage girls claimed that one alleged victim “made up” the assault claim to “carry on the campaign in relation to Muslims”.

Institutions are putting their reputations above the safety of vulnerable children who are being sexually exploited, an inquiry has found.

The number of investigations into the police response to allegations of child abuse and Muslim grooming gangs in Rotherham has increased to nearly 100, the police watchdog has revealed.

Rotherham Council has been ordered to apologise to a whistleblower who helped reveal the mass exploitation of underage white girls by mostly Muslim men.

At the age of just 12, Sarah Wilson was made to have sex with multiple men a night while authorities“barely batted an eyelid”, the Rotherham grooming victim has revealed in memoirs of her ordeal.

Counter-extremism campaigner Maajid Nawaz has spoken of his amazement and shame at the “drag” in institutions including the police, the BBC, and politics in responding to the Telford child sexual exploitation scandal, accusing those at the top of society of being paralysed by fear of accusations of racism.

Former New Labour Home Secretary Jack Straw has said grooming gangs are a “cultural problem” and some Pakistani-heritage men view young white girls as “easy meat”, whilst insisting that Islam is not a factor.

A Tory MP has slammed the BBC for not “standing up for [the] white working class” after the corporation was accused of ignoring revelations about the Telford grooming gang scandal.

An investigation has revealed Britain’s worst ever grooming scandal, which saw authorities paralysed for 40 years by fears of “racism” accusations as grooming gangs victimised up to a thousand girls in Telford.