‘Social media abuse victims must have the right to sue tech giants enshrined in a new law, children’s charities have said.’
Daily Telegraph, 1st July 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Home Secretary Sajid Javid delivered a speech at the NSPCC’s “How Safe are our Children?” conference on Tuesday 25 June 2019.’
Home Office, 25th June 2019
Source: www.gov.uk/home-office
‘A social worker found to have groomed a vulnerable 19-year-old for sex and made him sign a “relationship contract” has been struck off.’
BBC News, 21st June 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Opportunities were lost to tackle one of Britain’s largest grooming rings when information about two vulnerable girls being sexually exploited was not followed up, a review has found.’
The Guardian, 10th June 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Facebook, Apple, Microsoft and Google are to give secret evidence to the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA) as it examines the growing problem of online exploitation.’
The Guardian, 13th May 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Questions over whether a couple jailed for a string of rapes on girls were part of a paedophile ring have led to calls for a serious case review.’
BBC News, 29th April 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘More than 100,000 webpages containing child sexual abuse imagery (CSAI) or videos were identified and blocked over the last year by the UK charity tasked with maintaining the nationwide blacklist, an increase of more than a third on the year before.’
The Guardian, 24th April 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘A jury has been unable to decide whether Jack Renshaw, a neo-Nazi who admitted a terrorist plot to kill an MP, remained a member of a banned terrorist group. At the end of his fourth and final trial of the past two years, the full story of those cases can now be told.’
BBC News, 2nd April 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Paedophiles caught in undercover stings by vigilantes are to face tougher charges under new rules being introduced by prosecutors.’
Daily Telegraph, 18th March 2019
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘The case against a gang accused of trafficking and raping young girls has collapsed because of police failings.’
BBC News, 7th March 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Mistakes that led to child sexual grooming scandals are being repeated with gangs, a report by the Children’s Commissioner for England has warned.’
BBC News, 28th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A grooming gang of nine men has been jailed for a total of 132 years for an “appalling catalogue” of sexual abuse against two young girls in Bradford.’
The Independent, 28th February 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘”I met an older man and I was in a vulnerable situation. He took me under his wing and very quickly groomed me,” says Emma. This was two decades ago, when she was 16. The man went on to physically and sexually abuse her over a two-year period.’
BBC News, 26th February 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Evidence supplied by Dario Gradi related to the Barry Bennell scandal can be revealed by the Guardian and includes an admission that he encouraged the culture at Crewe Alexandra for coaches to invite boys to stay overnight, or even take them on holidays abroad, and that he did not make detailed background checks on the man who has been described as one of the most persistent paedophiles in British criminal history.’
The Guardian, 25th February 2019
Source: www.theguardian.com
‘Online child sex abuse cases reported to London’s Metropolitan Police have more than doubled in a year, amid warnings that paedophiles are grooming children to send them images.
Scotland Yard’s online child sexual abuse and exploitation team received 2,514 referrals in 2018, up from 1,050 the year before – a 139 per cent increase. The vast majority were alerts from technology companies, as calls have been mounting for web giants to prevent indecent images being uploaded or shared on their platforms.’
The Independent, 6th February 2019
Source: www.independent.co.uk
‘Three men who groomed and sexually abused an Oxford schoolgirl have been handed life sentences.’
BBC News, 21st January 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A science teacher who groomed a 15-year-old pupil with sexually explicit messages has been jailed for 14 months.’
BBC News, 4th January 2019
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A council offered a jailed sex offender the chance to play a part in the future of the child of a woman he raped, it has emerged. The rapist, who was part of a grooming gang in the North of the country and has no parental responsibility for his son, was contacted by the local authority to give him a chance to see the boy, a Times investigation has uncovered.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th November 2018
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Six men have been jailed for sexually exploiting young girls in Rotherham who were gang-raped and abused by them.’
BBC News, 16th November 2018
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
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