On March 31, the United Kingdom’s Home Office posted the following message on social media:

The grooming gangs scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country’s history — where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists. The independent national Inquiry will now begin its work to uncover how these crimes were allowed to happen and root out failure wherever it occurred. The Inquiry will be laser‑focused on grooming gangs and will explicitly examine the role of ethnicity, religion and culture — including how institutions responded. There will be no hiding place for the predatory monsters who committed these vile crimes.

The grooming gangs scandal is one of the darkest moments in our country’s history — where the most vulnerable were abused and exploited by evil child rapists.

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