Explainer: UK child grooming gang scandal

Rochdale grooming gang victim at her home in England
A woman poses at her home in England, Britain, January 8, 2025. She was 14 when she was sexually abused by a grooming gang in Rochdale. REUTERS/Hollie Adams
Source: REUTERS

British lawmakers have reignited fierce debate over the UK's child grooming gang scandal by rejecting a conservative proposal for a new national inquiry. 

This controversy stems from one of the most harrowing issues in modern Britain, a long-running series of child exploitation cases that first came to attention in 2011. 

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