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Grooming survivors prosecuted as children still being failed, Baroness Casey tells BBC
Key takeaways
- Baroness Louise Casey, who led the national investigation into grooming gangs, called on the government last year to quash any convictions of victims who were criminalised when they should have been protected.
- The government has since introduced legislation to pardon "child prostitution" offences.
- "I feel that they've gone for the easy option and, if I'm being more brutal, [the] lazy option of not setting up a disregard scheme with enough thought, enough care and enough action," Baroness Casey told the BBC.
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Fiona Trott,North of England correspondentand Ruth Green Getty Images Baroness Louise Casey says a scheme to quash convictions of child grooming victims does not go far enough Children who were groomed, sexually abused and then prosecuted for crimes, including prostitution, are still being failed, the author of a landmark report has said.
Baroness Louise Casey, who led the national investigation into grooming gangs, called on the government last year to quash any convictions of victims who were criminalised when they should have been protected.
The government has since introduced legislation to pardon "child prostitution" offences.
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