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The evidence on the demographics of convicted “grooming gang” members in the UK is contested: some studies and high-profile prosecutions report a noticeable in certain types of group-based child sexua...
Available sources do not provide a single, authoritative count of how many people were jailed in the UK in 2024 specifically for internet or social‑media posts. Reporting and public datasets instead g...
Police in England and Wales investigate alleged hate speech by first deciding whether reported conduct meets a criminal threshold (a hate crime) or is a non‑crime hate incident; forces record and inve...
The US National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC) and UK law enforcement — led by the National Crime Agency (NCA) and local police — are tightly interlinked in tackling child sexual abus...
There have been , including cases where perpetrators were white and mixed ethnicity, and official studies find that group-based child sexual exploitation offenders are most commonly white. At the same...
— , viewing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) can lead to arrest because the law treats “making” and “possession” of indecent images of children broadly, and mere acts of opening, downloading or othe...