‘There has been a 60% increase in child sexual abuse reported to the police over the past four years, according to official figures which make public for the first time the scale of the problem in England and Wales.’
The Guardian, 9th April 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A man who thought he was meeting a 14-year-old girl but was being tricked by a group of internet paedophile hunters has been jailed for a year.’
BBC News, 27th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘Martin Currier, 51, went to meet a 13-year-old girl he met online but was confronted by famed paedophile vigilante Stinson Hunter who reported him to police.’
Daily Telegraph, 27th March 2015
Source: www.telegraph.co.uk
‘Councils in England and Wales want new powers to combat predatory men suspected of grooming children for sex.’
BBC News, 26th March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A 75-year-old man who posed as a 16-year-old boy on social media to groom a young girl into have sex with him has been jailed for 10 years.’
BBC News, 23rd March 2015
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘A man has been spared jail after he groomed a “vulnerable” 15-year-old schoolgirl over Facebook.’
The Guardian, 16th March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The Government is to consult on extending the new criminal offence of ‘wilful neglect’ of patients to children’s social care, education and elected members in a bid to eradicate “the culture of denial”, the Prime Minister has announced.’
Local Government Lawyer, 3rd March 2015
Source: www.localgovernmentlawyer.co.uk
‘More than 300 young people have been groomed and sexually exploited by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the past 15 years, a damning report into the failures of police and social services to stop years of sexual torture, trafficking and rape will reveal, the Guardian has learned.’
The Guardian, 1st March 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘The mother of a schoolboy murdered by a teenager he met online has criticised a police and crime commissioner for suggesting that cutbacks were to blame for the police’s failure to act on her warnings about her son’s killer.’
The Guardian, 19th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge who gave a teacher a suspended sentence after suggesting he had been “groomed” by a pupil he was convicted of having sex with is to face an official investigation. Stuart Kerner, 44, was found guilty last month of two counts of sexual activity with a child by a person in a position of trust. But on Wednesday, he was given a suspended 18-month sentence by Joanna Greenberg QC, who said it was clear that his 16-year-old victim was obsessed with him.’
The Guardian, 15th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A judge is facing criticism after she handed down a suspended sentence to a teacher found guilty of having sex with a pupil and said the 16-year-old girl had “groomed” him.’
The Guardian, 14th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A teenager has been sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a 14-year-old boy he met through online gaming.’
BBC News, 12th January 2015
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‘A teenager who stabbed to death a 14-year-old boy he met while playing online video games was also accused of sexually assaulting another boy, it can be reported for the first time.’
The Guardian, 12th January 2015
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Heather Popley, barrister of No 5 Chambers, examines the innovative use of civil injunctions in the recent Birmingham case.’
Family Law Week, 30th December 2015
Source: www.familylawweek.co.uk
‘The National Crime Agency (NCA) has begun an investigation into child sexual exploitation in Rotherham.’
BBC News, 18th December 2014
Source: www.bbc.co.uk
‘The most senior judge in England and Wales today said men who prey on vulnerable young girls for sex will be dealt with “severely”, as he dismissed appeals from four paedophile groomers.’
The Guardian, 9th December 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘Over the last month Mr Justice Keehan has made a series of injunctions at the behest of Birmingham City Council designed to protect a vulnerable child in care from being groomed. It seems that the Orders are of such breadth that they are believed to have entered uncharted territory but there are questions whether there is any authority for this development.’
UK Human Rights Blog, 1st December 2014
Source: www.ukhumanrightsblog.com
‘Thirteen men, all of Somali origin, have been convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of vulnerable girls as young as 13 in Bristol and officers are investigating claims against 49 other suspects.’
The Guardian, 27th November 2014
Source: www.guardian.co.uk
‘A former Ukip regional chairman has been jailed for almost five years for grooming children as young as 12 and possessing almost 200,000 indecent images of children.’
The Independent, 25th November 2014
Source: www.independent.co.uk
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