Editing Gang rape (section)

===United Kingdom===
A number of gang rapes have taken place in the [[United Kingdom]],<ref>{{cite news |author=Louise Jury |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/schoolboy-guilty-of-tourist-gangrape-1266577.html |title=Schoolboy guilty of tourist gang-rape - News |work=The Independent |date=1997-04-12 |access-date=2014-02-13 |archive-date=2014-02-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140226210426/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/schoolboy-guilty-of-tourist-gangrape-1266577.html |url-status=live }}</ref> although the UK authorities had not separately collected data on gang rapes until the 2011 [[Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre]] report on [[Child grooming|localised grooming]] entitled "Out of Mind, Out of Sight",<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/ceop_thematic_assessment_executive_summary.pdf |website=ceop.police.uk |title=Out of Mind, Out of Sight: Breaking down the barriers to understanding child sexual exploitation |date=June 2011 |access-date=2016-10-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161117171742/https://www.ceop.police.uk/Documents/ceopdocs/ceop_thematic_assessment_executive_summary.pdf |archive-date=2016-11-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> but which only deals with adolescent victims. However, [[Scotland Yard]] expressed concern in 2009 over the rise of 'gang sex attacks' in London, detailing an increase of 71 cases in 2003/2004 to 93 cases in 2008/2009.<ref>{{cite news|title=Police concern at gang rape rise|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8345673.stm|access-date=21 February 2015|publisher=British Broadcasting Corporation|date=5 November 2009|archive-date=14 February 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210214003507/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8345673.stm|url-status=live}}</ref>

Media reports of gang rapes in the UK are often racially charged since late 2000.<ref name="Gang rape race issue">{{cite news|last1=Samura|first1=Sorious|title=Gang rape: Is it a race issue?|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gang-rape-is-it-a-race-issue-1711381.html|access-date=21 February 2015|publisher=The Independent.|date=21 June 2009|archive-date=22 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222025953/http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/gang-rape-is-it-a-race-issue-1711381.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|last1=Malone|first1=Carole|title=Oxford grooming ring was race-hate gang rape|url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/carole-malone-oxford-grooming-ring-1896865|access-date=21 February 2015|publisher=Mirror|date=19 May 2013|archive-date=23 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150323100327/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/carole-malone-oxford-grooming-ring-1896865|url-status=live}}</ref> This due to a particular pattern of repeated non-white perpetrated gang rapes in the metropolitan areas.<ref name="Gang rape race issue"/> The [[Rochdale sex trafficking gang]] would later epitomise the phenomenon.<ref>{{cite book|author=Home Affairs Committee|title=Child sexual exploitation and the response to localised grooming: Second Report of Session 2013–14|date=10 June 2013 <!--|location=London -->|publisher=by authority of the House of Commons<br />London: The Stationery Office Limited|isbn=9780215058867|page=5|url=https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmhaff/68/68i.pdf|access-date=31 August 2017|archive-date=2 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170902071706/https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201314/cmselect/cmhaff/68/68i.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The [[Home Office]] report of 2013 described these cases as '[showing] a particular model... of organised, serious exploitation and abuse that involves predominantly Pakistani-heritage men grooming and abusing predominantly white British girls.'<ref>{{cite book|title=Child sexual exploitation: response to second report of the Home Affairs Committee|date=10 September 2013|publisher=Home Office|location=London|isbn=9780101870528|page=23|url=https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/264090/8705.pdf|access-date=21 February 2015|archive-date=22 February 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150222014847/https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/264090/8705.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref> The report stresses that the Government does not believe 'localised grooming' is intrinsic of any culture, religion, and or race, despite acknowledging the phenomenon.

In March 2014, Crime Prevention Minister [[Norman Baker]] described "ground breaking work" to identify women and girls who can get drawn into gangs. "Girls associated with gangs can face sexual violence and we have provided £1.2m for 13 Young People's Advocates to support those at risk," he said on the launch of a report by the [[Centre for Social Justice]] (CSJ), a think-tank established in 2002 by [[Iain Duncan Smith]], another Cabinet minister. Baker said the government had set up a network of more than 70 people with experience of dealing with gangs to work with 33 of the worst affected areas of the country, including 20 in [[London]]. In one case cited by the CSJ report, a schoolgirl was abducted and sexually assaulted by nine males because she criticised a gang member. The report found that girls as young as eight were being used to carry drugs while female gang members in their teens were being pressured to have sex with boys as young as 10 to initiate males into gangs. A 2014 report by the [[Children's Commissioner for England|Office of the Children's Commissioner]] suggested that almost 2,500 children had been known to be victims of child sexual exploitation by gangs and groups.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10717751/Rape-is-a-weapon-against-gang-girls-says-report.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/law-and-order/10717751/Rape-is-a-weapon-against-gang-girls-says-report.html |archive-date=2022-01-12 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live|title='Rape is a weapon against gang girls', says report|first=Padraic|last=Flanagan|date=23 March 2014|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In July 2018 [[Home Secretary]] [[Sajid Javid]] ordered research into the particular characteristics of grooming gangs.<ref>{{cite news |author=Joe Watts |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sajid-javid-pakistani-child-sex-abuse-grooming-gangs-rotherham-home-office-a8464191.html |title=Home Secretary orders investigation into ethnic origin of sexual grooming gangs - News |work=The Independent |date=2018-07-26 |access-date=2020-03-22 |archive-date=2018-07-26 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180726114434/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/sajid-javid-pakistani-child-sex-abuse-grooming-gangs-rotherham-home-office-a8464191.html |url-status=live }}</ref> 
However, as of March 2020 this report has not been released with the [[Home Office]] claiming it is ‘not in public interest’ to release the findings.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51860230 |title=Grooming gang research petition to be considered for Parliamentary debate - News |publisher=BBC |date=2020-03-12 |access-date=2020-03-22 |archive-date=2020-03-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200315223802/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-51860230 |url-status=live }}</ref>