I wrote this essay in January of 2024 for American Mind as a kind of primer on Britain’s grooming gangs for an American audience. My main purpose was to raise awareness of the scale of the problem, on the occasion of a fresh report into abuse in Rochdale. Now that the grooming gangs are back in the news, thanks to Rupert Lowe’s “public inquiry,” I thought it would be a good idea to reprint this essay, the contents of which I believe still stand …
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