“We will change the law to ensure that adults who engage in penetrative sex with a child under 16 face the most serious charge of rape,“ interior minister Yvette Cooper told parliament, as authorities launched a nationwide crackdown on the gangs.
Prime Minister Keir Starmer on Sunday announced a new national inquiry would be launched into the scandal, one of Casey’s 12 recommendations.
“We agree, and we will set up a national inquiry to that effect,“ she added.
But Cooper said that Asian men, particularly from a Pakistani background, were “overrepresented” and that ethnicity and nationality of suspects in grooming cases will now be recorded on a mandatory basis.
Gangs of men targeted mostly white girls from disadvantaged backgrounds, some of whom lived in children’s homes.
The gangs operated in several English towns and cities including Rotherham and Rochdale in the north, but also in Oxford and Bristol, for almost four decades.
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