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Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation in the UK

Group-based contact offences made up a small proportion of total recorded child sexual abuse and exploitation offences in recent years.

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Jan 13, 2026
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90% of the people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims.

The claim that "90% of the people in the UK convicted of grooming/child rape are Muslims" is not supported by available national data and is a misleading simplification: official datasets do not hold ...

Feb 7, 2026

How many people convicted in UK grooming/sexual exploitation cases since 2010?

There is no single, authoritative national tally of people convicted in "grooming" or group-based child sexual exploitation (CSE) cases since 2010 because the criminal law does not record a distinct o...