Report exposes scale of alleged UK grooming gang scandal
Fox News host Will Caine reports on a bombshell UK investigation detailing shocking alleged child sexual exploitation by organized child sex abuse rings in 149 local authority areas. The report reveals crimes committed over decades, with an estimated 250,000 victims nationwide.
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New German crime figures and a growing investigation into the alleged sexual abuse of teenage girls near the Nuremberg, Germany, central railway station are intensifying a broader European battle over migration, integration and whether authorities have been too reluctant to confront patterns of organized sexual abuse.
Germany is set to record 751 cases classified as gang rape in 2025, according to the federal government’s response to a parliamentary inquiry submitted by the opposition Alternative für Deutschland party. All parties represented in the Bundestag, the German federal parliament, can submit formal questions requiring government responses, which is a major tool through which opposition MPs scrutinize federal policy.
Police identified 1,087 suspects in the cases, including 509 German citizens and 578 non-German citizens. Syrians were the largest foreign-national group with 110 suspects, followed by Afghans with 64, Iraqis with 46, and Turks with 44.
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Two defendants hold folders in front of their faces while a defense lawyer talks to one of them during a trial in Freiburg, Germany, on July 23, 2020. (Philip von Ditfurth/dpa via AP)
The government cautioned that “gang rape” is not a separate criminal offense or standardized police category. Authorities generated statistics by filtering reported rape cases in which suspects were listed as not working alone. These numbers represent suspects identified during police investigations, not those convicted in court.
The figures came as investigators in Nuremberg, Germany, alleged that vulnerable girls were deliberately lured into a network involving affection, gifts, drugs and sexual abuse.
Bavarian police said in May that people working around the city’s main train station allegedly approached girls from unstable or vulnerable backgrounds, initially offering them attention, clothes or cosmetics. Investigators said some of the men were later given hard drugs, including crystal meth, and their resulting dependence was allegedly exploited to obtain sexual acts or other “services”.
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Protesters gather before a party conference of the Alternative for Germany, or AfD, in Erfurt, Germany, on July 4, 2026. (Ibrahim Norouzi/The Associated Press)
The investigation, known as EKO Kajal, continues to expand. Police said on Tuesday that 10 suspects were being held in pre-trial detention in cases related to alleged sex crimes against girls and young women and the distribution of drugs to minors.
In the latest arrests, police alleged that a 21-year-old Syrian man who raped two girls, aged 15 and 18, in an apartment in Nuremberg, Germany, was drugged by a 40-year-old Syrian man. Both men were detained, but the charges remained charges and a verdict was not issued.
Emma Schubart, research fellow at the London-based Henry Jackson Society, told Fox News Digital that the Nuremberg charges are similar to grooming-gang cases that have emerged in Britain, where girls were given drugs and alcohol before being repeatedly abused by groups of men.
“This is a serious failure in both countries,” Schubart said. He argued that the problem begins with inadequate screening and continues with inadequate integration once migrants arrive.
“The first step that both the UK and German authorities are not really doing is to screen migrants effectively,” he said. “But then, once the migrants are already here, there is a complete lack of integration policy.”
Schubart said the isolation of some immigrant communities can contribute to “ghettoization” and create environments in which criminal networks operate with limited investigation or cooperation with authorities.
He also challenged the argument that disparities in some sex-crime statistics can be explained primarily by poverty.
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A supporter wearing a plastic policeman’s helmet and holding fake money criticizes the way the police dealt with the grooming gang scandal in Telford, England, January 29, 2022. (Martin Pope/Getty Images)
“Socioeconomic factors matter, but they do not fully explain disparities,” Schubart said. “Native Germans with similar socio-economic backgrounds do not show exactly the same rates of gang sexual offending.”
Schubart said she sees the clear interrelationship between drugs and sexual exploitation as a particularly important parallel with Britain.
“In Britain and Germany, it’s a similar pattern where it’s basically drug trafficking that also includes sex trafficking,” he said. “These drug trafficking networks and cells operate throughout the country, not just in the cities where we see crimes happening.”
Britain has spent years embroiling scandals in places such as Rotherham, Rochdale, Telford and Oxford, England, where official reviews found that police, social workers and local authorities repeatedly ignored or downplayed evidence that vulnerable children were being systematically abused.
Baroness Louise Casey’s national audit, published by the British government in June 2025, concluded that inconsistent definitions, incomplete records and failures to collect ethnicity data have made it impossible to establish the full national scale of group-based child sexual exploitation. Yet it found evidence of disproportionate representation of Pakistani-heritage suspects in some local datasets and cases, while cautioning against generalizing those findings to the entire country.
The British Government subsequently supported an independent inquiry aimed at examining failures or obstruction by police, councils and other public bodies in the local areas concerned.
Schubart argued that officials in both countries sometimes avoid discussing the backgrounds of criminals out of concern that doing so could damage relations with minority communities.
“In the UK, it’s usually the phrase ‘community relations’,” she said. “A major effort is being made to ensure that community relations are not jeopardized.”
Germany’s IFO Institute reported in February 2025 that an analysis of district-level police data from 2018 to 2023 found no link between the growing foreign population and local crime rates, including in areas receiving more refugees.
“We found no association between the increasing share of foreigners in a district and local crime rates,” IFO researcher Jean-Victor Alipour said when the findings were released. “The same applies especially to refugees.” The researchers said differences in suspect rates may be influenced by age, gender, urban concentration and other demographic factors.
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A woman poses with a sign as members of the public queue to enter a council meeting during a protest demanding justice for victims of sexual abuse and grooming gangs, outside the council offices in the city center on January 20, 2025 in Oldham, England. (Anthony Devlin/Getty Images)
Germany’s Syrian population also plays an important role in areas facing severe labor shortages.
The German Medical Association reported that 7,959 Syrian nationals were working as physicians in Germany at the end of 2025, making Syrians the largest group of foreign doctors in the country.
The competing evidence presents European governments with a difficult test: investigating organized exploitation and demographic patterns without political hesitation, while avoiding the suggestion that hundreds of suspects define millions of immigrants.
