UK backs local inquiries into child sexual abuse gangs after Musk stoked controversy
The British government says it will support a series of local inquiries into organized child sexual abuse in the wake of a furor largely stoked by the world’s richest man Elon Musk
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New grooming gangs inquiry would delay action on child abuse, inquiry chair tells BBC
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