The Campaign Against Adult Grooming (CAAGe) Blog
Grooming Gangs
At CAAGe we haven’t spoken much about grooming gangs because they tend to refer to CSA. But we know that ‘gangs’ like Epstein/Maxwells recruited girls as ‘old’ as 22 into sexual abuse, and the whole topic is fuzzy and unclear.
With much of the furore being about race, we delved into our data, and got up onto our soapbox…
Do Adult Groomers Target On or Offline?
CAAGe has been collating it’s data on online grooming and dating sites.
The data comes with certain provisos, but prepare to be challenged!!
Grooming and Age
Forget the ‘Shirley Valentine’ image of people who’ve been groomed as adults - unfortunately you can be groomed at any age!
Lexicon of Abuse: Duty to Notify
‘Duty to Notify’ explained as part of the CAAGe ‘Lexicon of abuse’ series (specifically refers to human trafficking)