UK announces national inquiry into ‘grooming gangs’ after pressure | Sexual Assault News

The interest in the number was pushed by far -right groups and Elon Musk and described as a criticism like a racist dog whistle.

The British government has announced that it would be a national survey of the sexual abuse of children organized after months Call on the call opposition groups.

Prime Minister Keir Starmer said on Saturday that he had read “each word” of an independent report on the sexual assault scandal, also known as “grooming gangs”, by Baroness Louise Casey and would accept his recommendation for the investigation.

“This is the right thing to do on the basis of what she [Casey] put his audit. I asked him to do this job to check this; She did this job for me and having read her report … I will now implement her recommendations. Starmer told journalists traveling with him during a visit to Canada.

Earlier this year, the government rejected calls to a public inquiry, declaring that it was focused on the recommendations already made in a national seven -year investigation by Professor Alexis Jay.

In 2022, Jay found that there had been institutional failures across the country, affecting tens of thousands of victims in England and Wales.

But the leader of the conservative party of the opposition, Kemi Badenoch, said that Starmer only supported the report because “a report told him”.

But an increased interest in the case of “grooming gangs”, as the British press qualified it, was pushed by far-right groups, in particular the leader of the reform of the United Kingdom Nigel Farage, and more intimate by the technological billionaire and the owner of Tesla Elon MuskAfter the authors of one of the most prominent cases of the country were Pakistani heritage men.

Their push was marked by criticisms like a racist dog whistle. The vast majority of offenses to “grooming gangs”, however, are led by white men, said the Council of National Police of the United Kingdom (NPCC) earlier this year.

Musk used his X platform to criticize the British Prime Minister so as not to support a national investigation after the local authority in Oldham, a city in northern England, noted that girls under the age of 18 were sexually exploited by groups of men in the 2000s and 2010.

Musk also alleged that Starmer had not brought the perpetrators to court while he was the chief prosecutor of the country between 2008 and 2013, an accusation that Starmer had denied several times.

Due to the similarity of the Oldham case with others in several cities, including white girls abused by men largely from a Pakistani background, the question was linked to immigration.