{"id":214304,"date":"2025-01-13T18:15:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/rochdale-grooming-gang-mp-backs-abuse-inquiry-with-caveats\/"},"modified":"2025-01-13T18:15:44","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T18:15:44","slug":"rochdale-grooming-gang-mp-backs-abuse-inquiry-with-caveats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/13\/rochdale-grooming-gang-mp-backs-abuse-inquiry-with-caveats\/","title":{"rendered":"Rochdale grooming gang: MP backs abuse inquiry ‘with caveats’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Rochdale MP Paul Waugh backs an inquiry if that is “what victims want”<\/figcaption><\/p>\n<\/figure>\n
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The Labour MP for a town where one of the most notorious child sexual exploitation cases of recent years occurred has backed a national inquiry if “that’s what victims want”.<\/p>\n

The government resisted calls for a new national inquiry last week, arguing the findings from a previous report into child sexual abuse are still to be implemented<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Paul Waugh, MP for Rochdale, said he backed an inquiry with “key caveats”.<\/p>\n

Nine men who exploited girls as young as 13<\/a> in Rochdale were jailed in 2012.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Waugh, who was elected last year, told BBC Politics North West<\/a>: “I’m not against a national enquiry but it has got to have some key caveats.<\/p>\n

“First, is it supported by victims because they are the people who have told their stories and it took a lot of bravery to tell those stories?”<\/p>\n

“They fought for justice for many years, are they going to have to re-experience their trauma every time they explain this?<\/p>\n

“They have done this time and time again.”<\/p>\n

He also said any inquiry should “not cut across live police investigations”.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

‘Public call for justice’<\/h2>\n<\/p>\n
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Speaking on the same programme, Councillor Martyn Cox, leader of the Conservatives on Bolton Council, said his party in government “made a terrible mistake in not introducing and calling for a national inquiry when in power”.<\/p>\n

“But the Labour Party argument seems to be ‘better never than late’.<\/p>\n

“I would much rather it was done late than it not done at all.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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On Saturday, Liverpool Walton Labour MP Dan Carden told The Liverpool Echo<\/a>: “The public compassion for the victims, thousands of young British working-class girls and children, is real. <\/p>\n

“The public call for justice must be heeded.”<\/p>\n

Last week Labour’s Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said he would back a “limited” national inquiry into child grooming gangs to compel people to give evidence so “those who may have charges to answer are held to account”.<\/p>\n

He said a series of local reviews into abuse in Manchester, Rochdale and Oldham he commissioned were “limited” compared to what a public inquiry could achieve.<\/p>\n

However, he was rebuffed by Culture Secretary Lisa Nandy who said the Jay inquiry<\/a>, set up by Theresa May’s government, had taken evidence from thousands of victims and addressed the issues he had raised.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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