The United Kingdom’s grooming gangs

Published January 10, 2025 5:30am ET



The British are renowned for their class system, their tea-drinking, and, now that Elon Musk has told the world about it, the grooming, rape, trafficking, and torture of underage girls by gangs of mostly Pakistani Muslim origin. This abuse has gone on for decades. The police have documented it in at least 50 towns and cities. The number of known victims runs into the thousands. It may run into the hundreds of thousands. It is still happening. Hardly any of the perpetrators have been prosecuted.

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