UK Announces Probes Into Child Rape Gangs After Musk Pressure
- Lawyer named to lead inquiry in Oldham, up to four other areas
- Home Secretary announces government’s next steps in Commons
Yvette Cooper
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UK Home Secretary Yvette Cooper announced a series of local probes into so-called child grooming gangs just weeks after the billionaire Elon Musk ramped up pressure on the government to hold a national inquiry into the decades-old issue.
Cooper told the House of Commons on Thursday she’d asked Louise Casey, a member of the House of Lords, to conduct an “audit” to fill an evidence gap that hampered previous inquiries into child sexual exploitation, including looking into the ethnicity of gangs and victims.