Victims of grooming gangs are calling for a public inquiry and tougher sentences for abusers after a social media clash between Elon Musk and Labour MP Jess Phillips. Phillips rejected a request for a Home Office inquiry into child sexual exploitation, prompting Musk to call for her imprisonment.
Grooming gang victims spoke out today to demand a public inquiry and tougher sentences for abusers amid a social media war waged against Sir Keir Starmer by Elon Musk . The row began yesterday after Jess Phillips rejected a request by Oldham Council for the Home Office to lead a public inquiry into child sexual exploitation , suggesting it would be best for the local council to investigate the issue instead.
Mr Musk, 53, has said Ms Phillips 'deserves to be in prison', while Tory leader Kemi Badenoch said a full national inquiry into organised grooming gangs is 'long overdue'. Sarah Wilson was groomed and raped by paedophiles in Rotherham for five years from the age of 11 - with one attack taking place in a school playground. She wrote on X: 'Jess Phillips needs to hang her head in shame!!! Anyone who denies an independent investigation has a lot to hide.' Sammy Woodhouse was just 14 when she met her rapist, Arshid Hussain, who was jailed for 35 years in 2016. Hussain, known in Rotherham as Mad Ash, was reportedly contacted by the council about care proceedings. She told LBC: 'We have report, after report, after report telling us the same thing. We know what's happening in this country because people like myself have been giving thousands of interviews to the mainstream media telling you about it. 'What's not happening is action - there's not enough paedophiles being taken through the courts and when they are, they're walking free. There's no professionals being held to account.' While the proposed public inquiry would have focused on Oldham, grooming gangs have been exposed in numerous other parts of the country ranging from Newcastle to Oxford and Bristol. The abusers were predominantly Asian me
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