Met Police reviewing 9,000 grooming cases
The Metropolitan Police are looking at nine thousand cases of child sexual abuse, according to the department. The Met said in a tweet that it was reinvestigating the cases that involve
allegations or questions regarding child sexual abuse and child sexual exploitation were dismissed seriously," the police said.intra-familial, peer-on-peer, and academic settings, as well as others that do not fit the common notion of a 'grooming Following a national inquiry into group-based child sexual abuse, which found it was more widespread, organised, and underreported than previously reported, the cases are being reexamined. All
The National Audit on Group-Based Child Sexual Exploitation and Abuse, Baroness Casey's study, discovered a mismatch
in the way the Metropolitan Police and local authorities record child abuse. The ethnicity of people affected had been shieted away from
by authorities, according to a study published in June. Scotland Yard said on Saturday that group-based offending was
Inside 2022, there have been major changes to how the Met detects and prosecutes group-based crime, including training for 11,000 frontline officers and the expansion of our child exploitation teams.particularly insidious and devastating in its profound effect on the children affected. The force added in a tweet:
Our commitment to safeguarding all victims of such horrific crimes and bringing those guilty to justice is unquestionable.We've solved three times more cases of child sexual abuse in the last year, out of 134 more suspects.
'Woefully let down'
The cases that the Met said were based on a 15-year period, which the Met claimed was the same time period covered by Baroness Casey's study. The information had been released, according to a spokesperson for Sir Sadiq Khan,
Any individuals or groups exploiting children for sex are completely ignorant,the mayor demanded complete transparency and has consistently requested the Met to leave no stone unturned when investigating these appalling crimes.
the spokesperson said.Sadiq has made it abundantly clear that they will face the full force of the law.
Listen to the best of BBC Radio London on Soundsand. BBC Radio is a cable television station that broadcasts live on BBC RadioLondon.These children have not only suffered horrific violence at the hands of the criminals, but have been remarkably let down by the authorities who are supposed to shield them from harm.
