All news on the topic: Grooming

Natalie Fleet has resigned as safeguarding minister saying she found the role “overwhelmingly triggering” because of her past.

Cases of predators coercing children into producing sexual photos and videos of themselves have surged globally in the past year, a cruel phenomenon known as “sadistic online exploitation”, child safety experts and law enforcement officials warn.

Police are appealing for further victims of a church leader to come forward after he was convicted of abusing four vulnerable young men over more than 40 years.

Many a woman would have killed for such a romantic proposal. Spelled out carefully in the yellow and purple of the couple’s college colors, Daniel Bryant used the fabric on the golden sands of Myrtle Beach to ask ’Lesli, marry me?!’

One of “Britain’s first gay dads” and his husband have been charged with 18 more offenses including rape and paying for sexual services of a child.

A teacher in New Jersey arrested after allegedly having sex with one of her pupils has blamed the victim for sending raunchy text messages.

A senior NHS manager has been jailed for 28 years for raping a 12-year-old and sexually abusing five other girls after grooming them on Snapchat.

Online child exploitation is escalating worldwide, with experts warning of a sharp increase in AI-generated sexual abuse material — including deepfakes that digitally insert children’s faces into explicit photos and videos.

Sir Keir Starmer will launch a statutory inquiry into the grooming gangs scandal after resisting calls for months to implement a full national probe.

The defendants preyed on the vulnerabilities of the victims to groom them as "sex slaves" from the age of 13 on various dates in the Greater Manchester town between 2001 and 2006.

In the autumn of 2020, Rhianan Rudd gouged a swastika into her forehead in a declaration of her love for Adolf Hitler.

Hundreds of historic child sex abuse cases could be re-opened after police forces carried out reviews ordered by the Home Secretary Yvette Cooper to tackle grooming gangs.

Officer who investigated Rhianan Rudd, who died by suicide, tells inquest ‘wider conversation’ needed on such cases