{"id":10400,"date":"2025-06-14T06:04:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-14T06:04:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10400"},"modified":"2025-06-14T06:04:04","modified_gmt":"2025-06-14T06:04:04","slug":"7-convicted-in-uks-latest-grooming-scandal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=10400","title":{"rendered":"7 convicted in UK&#8217;s latest &#8216;grooming&#8217; scandal"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Seven men who sexually exploited two vulnerable girls in northern England were convicted on Friday in the latest trial over a decades-old &#8220;grooming gangs&#8221; scandal,<\/p>\n<p>The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the men were convicted after a trial involving a total of 50 offences, including rape and indecency with a child, which occurred between 2001 and 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Prosecutor Rossano Scamardella told jurors at the start of the trial at Manchester Minshull Street Crown Court that the group&#8217;s two victims were &#8220;passed around for sex, abused, degraded and then discarded&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Scarmardella also said the two girls were known to social services and that it was &#8220;no secret&#8221; they were having sex with older South Asian men such as the defendants.<\/p>\n<p>The men had all denied the charges, but were unanimously convicted by the jury after three weeks of deliberations.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seven men who sexually exploited two vulnerable girls in northern England were convicted on Friday in the latest trial over a decades-old &#8220;grooming gangs&#8221; scandal, The Greater Manchester Police (GMP) said the men were convicted after a trial involving a total of 50 offences, including rape and indecency with a child, which occurred between 2001 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10400\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}