What is UK's 'grooming gang' scandal seized on by Musk
Business Standard|January 09, 2025
Elon Musk, the tech mogul, in a series of vitriolic posts, has accused UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer and other Labour Party lawmakers of enabling Britain's so-called grooming gangs.
MEGAN SPECIA

The phrase refers to a decade-old scandal involving a series of child sex abuse cases in which girls were assaulted and raped by gangs of men in several towns and cities. Most of the perpetrators were of British Pakistani heritage.

Before entering politics in 2015, Starmer served as chief prosecutor from 2008 to 2013, when the issue of grooming gangs erupted into the national spotlight. While in that role, Starmer oversaw the prosecution of a grooming gang in Rochdale, made up of mostly men of South Asian heritage.

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