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The Yorkshire Post says: Inhumanity of grooming gang. Abuse victims as young as 11 – what lessons should be learned?

OUR first thoughts today are with the young victims of the Huddersfield grooming gang who were subjected to a level of sexual abuse that defies understanding.

The youngest of the 15 girls subjected to degrading abuse on an industrial-scale by a grotesque group of 20 depraved paedophiles was just 11.

Yet it is to the immense personal credit of the victims that they not only came forward, but had the fortitude to withstand a tortuous legal process and bravely relive their ordeal in court, in order to finally bring the perpetrators of these vile crimes to justice.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/the-yorkshire-post-says-inhumanity-of-grooming-gang-abuse-victims-as-young-as-11-what-lessons-should-be-learned-1-9406002

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Previously published by the Yorkshire Post:

Huddersfield grooming gang: 20 men found guilty of child sex abuse in Leeds Crown Court trials

SIXTEEN members of a child grooming gang have been given jail sentences totalling more than 200 years over the sexual exploitation of school girls in Yorkshire. Four others are awaiting sentence after being convicted of offences in a trial which ended earlier this month.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/huddersfield-grooming-gang-20-men-found-guilty-of-child-sex-abuse-in-leeds-crown-court-trials-1-9405124

Huddersfield grooming gang: Independent review will examine whether authorities failed young victims

An independent review is to take place into whether the authorities failed the young victims of the Huddersfield grooming gang.

Kirklees Council has commissioned Professor Mark Peel, former Professor of Social Work at the University of Leicester, to conduct an independent review of historic cases of child sex abuse in the town, Director of Children’s Services Steve Walker announced outside Leeds Crown Court today.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/huddersfield-grooming-gang-independent-review-will-examine-whether-authorities-failed-young-victims-1-9405624

Huddersfield grooming gang: How young girls were exploited and raped in car parks, a snooker centre and a takeaway

Jurors at Leeds Crown Court heard “chilling” details of how girls were passed around gang members and subjected to degrading abuse after being drugged and violently attacked.

Victims were often trafficked to isolated moorland areas or to parties where their drinks would be spiked so they would be “rendered senseless”

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/crime/huddersfield-grooming-gang-how-young-girls-were-exploited-and-raped-in-car-parks-a-snooker-centre-and-a-takeaway-1-9405177

‘Why Tommy Robinson owes Huddersfield grooming gang victims an apology’

The gang of sexual predators that raped and abused children as young as 11 years old might still be walking the streets of Yorkshire following the recklessness of far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon.

The former leader of the English Defence League took it upon himself during proceedings to disregard reporting restrictions put in place to protect the justice process.

As the accused faced their days in court, Yaxley-Lennon, who goes by the name Tommy Robinson, took to Facebook to broadcast live content which could have caused the trial to collapse.

He did so under the auspices of being a champion of the people, effectively duping those who follow him into believing editors like me were covering up these repugnant crimes.

Read more at: https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/opinion/why-tommy-robinson-owes-huddersfield-grooming-gang-victims-an-apology-1-9405835