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A woman poses at her home in England, Britain, January 8, 2025. She was 14 when she was sexually abused by a grooming gang in Rochdale.

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Since the beginning of the new year, I’ve written about some of the ghastly child abuse in England that is deliberately ignored by the authorities. In particular, I addressed the “grooming gangs” that exploit young girls, as well as the government’s repeated failures to rescue Sara Sharif. These topics are unlikely to be discussed at the dinner table; horror-genre writers could not author passages as nightmarish as the stories relayed by the victims or judges.

Consider, for example, what a judge wrote about an Oxford child-rape gang:

Abigail Anthony

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Abigail Anthony

Abigail Anthony is a staff writer at National Review.

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