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Hello.
Just a warning that today's podcast might include language you find upsetting
because we're going to be covering the report by Baroness Casey into group-based child sexual exploitation,
which was published on Monday afternoon, just before we started recording this episode.
And Baroness Casey's report,
which was published today and we knew was going to be published today,
that emerged over the weekend.
actually starts with the four words written by her, where she says,
and I'm going to quote it directly because it's worth just hearing this in her own words.
She says, that term, group-based child sexual exploitation,
is actually a sanitised version of what it is.
I want to set out in unsanitised terms.
We're talking about multiple sexual assaults committed against children by multiple men on multiple occasions,
beatings and gang rapes,
girls having to have abortions, contracting sexually transmitted infections,
having children removed from them at birth.
When those same girls get older, they face long-term physical and mental health impacts.
Sometimes they have criminal convictions for actions they took while under coercion.
They have to live with the fear and the constant shadow over them of an injustice which has never been righted.