A group of 12 men who sexually exploited a vulnerable teenage schoolgirl for their own “selfish, sexual gratification” have received jail sentences of up to 20 years. Eleven of the
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A man in his 20s who features in a large-scale police investigation into child sexual exploitation twice made a teenager pregnant, a family court judge has been told. The teenager,
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A case of female genital mutilation (FGM) is reported in England every 109 minutes, according to official health figures. Some 2,421 instances of mutilation were reported from April 2015 to
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An elderly man has been reported to prosecutors over an alleged sexual assault on a woman in a care home. Police were called to the care home in Argyll and
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The NSPCC has launched a long-term campaign, IT’s Time, to raise awareness of the barriers abused children face getting help to rebuild their lives and call for more therapeutic services
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Potentially crucial evidence was lost and a suspect was free to carry on offending because of “unacceptable” delays in child sex inquiries at a police force, a report by watchdogs
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Rape and sex assault victims are being let down in as many as one in three cases, a study by the prosecution watchdog suggests. Inspectors found specialist CPS units had
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A surge in the number of children as young as 10 seeking help for sex abuse has seen demand on services more than double in just five years, according to
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Scotland Yard has dropped an investigation into reports of physical and sexual abuse linked to failed charity Kids Company. Detectives found no evidence of criminality within 32 pieces of information
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Legislation aimed at addressing the “unenlightened and ill-founded” attitudes of some jurors in sexual offence trials has passed its first stage at Holyrood. The Scottish Government’s Abusive Behaviour and Sexual
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