Il Regno Unito annuncia una revisione “rapida” dello sfruttamento sessuale dei bambini da parte delle bande di adescamento

# UK Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to political pressure for further action but stopping short of demands for a new nationwide inquiry. 

# In Short

* Local inquiries to be launched in UK amid political pressure
* Issue of sexual exploitation was a recent row between Elon Musk, Keir Starmer
* Gangs targeted primarily white British girls for decades

The UK government announced Thursday a “rapid” national review of the extent of sexual exploitation of children by grooming gangs, recently the subject of a row between US billionaire Elon Musk and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to political pressure for further action but stopping short of demands for a new nationwide inquiry.

The issue was at the centre of a political firestorm earlier this month when the Tesla boss posted a series of incendiary comments about Starmer on his X platform.

The Labour leader then hit out at those spreading “lies and misinformation” online, in a thinly veiled rebuke of Musk.

The row relates to sex offences going back decades against primarily white British girls by men of mostly South Asian origin in various northern English towns.

The issue has long been seized upon by far-right UK figures, including notorious agitator Tommy Robinson, but has been adopted by the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK party.

They and other more centrist critics, including whistleblowers, have argued child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs remains ongoing.

The UK government announced Thursday a “rapid” national review of the extent of sexual exploitation of children by grooming gangs, recently the subject of a row between US billionaire Elon Musk and Prime Minister Keir Starmer.

Interior minister Yvette Cooper also said several new local inquiries into cases of abuse would be launched, bowing to political pressure for further action but stopping short of demands for a new nationwide inquiry.

The issue was at the centre of a political firestorm earlier this month when the Tesla boss posted a series of incendiary comments about Starmer on his X platform.

The Labour leader then hit out at those spreading “lies and misinformation” online, in a thinly veiled rebuke of Musk.

The row relates to sex offences going back decades against primarily white British girls by men of mostly South Asian origin in various northern English towns.

The issue has long been seized upon by far-right UK figures, including notorious agitator Tommy Robinson, but has been adopted by the Conservatives and Nigel Farage’s hard-right Reform UK party.

They and other more centrist critics, including whistleblowers, have argued child sexual exploitation by grooming gangs remains ongoing.

Cooper told MPs that she had ordered a three-month “rapid audit of the current scale and nature of gang-based exploitation across the country” to be led by Baroness Louise Casey.

The review will look at “cultural and societal drivers” of child sex abuse and “properly examine ethnicity data and the demographics of the gangs involved and their victims”, she added.

Previous inquiries have found that the authorities and the police shied away from taking victims’ claims seriously, in part to avoid seeming racist and for fear of raising community tensions.

Elon Musk about to take credit for this

GOP must have a longer reach than previously thought.

Are they going to go after the church leaders?