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• Austerity harms hunt for sexual abuse gangs, says ex-prosecutor

  21-10-2018 10:00
  Cuts have ‘come at the wrong time’ after the Rochdale case raised national awareness, says former CPS expert Nazir AfzalPotential victims of grooming gangs are no safer now than when the issue became a national scandal almost a decade ago, according to the Crown Prosecution Service’s former lead on child sexual abuse and violence against women and girls.Speaking after 20 men were found guilty on Friday of belonging to a gang that raped and abused girls as young as 11 in the wes
  
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• The Observer view on dealing with child-grooming gangs | Observer editorial

  21-10-2018 07:00
  The victims of the horrific events in Huddersfield and other cities are not best served by a polarised debate on raceRotherham, Rochdale, Oxford, Bristol, Peterborough, Newcastle – and now Huddersfield. These are the places across the country where young girls, failed by those supposed to protect them, have been preyed on by gangs of men who repeatedly rape and abuse them. Every new case that emerges raises the question: how many more are there to come to light?No words can do justice to t
  
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