THEAMERICANCONSERVATIVE (Donna Rachel Edmunds) - The Grooming Gangs’ Unexamined Organized Crime Angle
The “grooming gangs” framing has obscured that black-market commercial element of child abuse. The post The Grooming Gangs’ Unexamined Organized Crime Angle appeared first on The American Conservative .
UK Special Coverage The Grooming Gangs’ Unexamined Organized Crime Angle The “grooming gangs” framing has obscured that black-market commercial element of child abuse. UK Special Coverage (Photo by Guy Smallman/Getty Images) In March this year , trading standards officers in the West Midlands town of Dudley closed down a number of “rogue” businesses, mostly mini-marts and vape shops, due to links to organized criminal gangs. Their priority criterion was not tax evasion or counterfeit goods. It was the grooming threat to children. The shops are staffed by a continuous flow of migrant workers, including…Open