After Baroness Casey released her "damning" grooming gangs report this week, survivors of one Britain's darkest scandals have been given a voice for authorities to finally reveal the truth.
With a nationwide rape gangs probe set to follow, local cases will yet again be in the spotlight.
GB News's Britain's Shame documentary uncovered a number of horrific details from the scandal.
Ahead of the next chapter of the 40-year scandal, the People's Channel can now reveal the three maps that reveal the true scale of the crisis.
The three maps that reveal the TRUE SCALE of Britain's rape gang crisis - and it's much bigger than you realise
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The 50 towns and cities in Britain rocked by grooming gangs abuse
An exclusive investigation by GB News revealed at least 50 towns and cities where children had been exploited by predominantly Pakistani rape gangs.
Reports stretched from Bradford to Barking and Oldham to Oxford but the overall extent of the scandal spans across at least 800 cases identified in Casey's report.
Home Secretary Yvette Cooper admitted that the number of cases could soon soar past 1,000.
GB News has identified over 50 different towns and cities that have endured abuse gangGB News The full list of Britain's cities and towns impacted:
- Aylesbury
- Banbury
- Birkenhead
- Birmingham
- Blackburn
- Blackpool
- Bolton
- Bradford
- Brierfield
- Bristol
- Burnley
- Burton upon Trent
- Bury
- Calderdale
- Carlisle
- Chelmsford
- Coventry
- Derby
- Gateshead
- Glasgow
- Halifax
- High Wycombe
- Huddersfield
- Hull
- Ilford & Barking
- Ipswich
- Keighley
- Leicester
- London
- Manchester
- Middlesborough
- Nelson & Colne
- Newcastle
- Nottingham
- Oldham
- Oxford
- Peterborough
- Preston
- Reddicth
- Rochdale
- Rotherham
- Sheffield
- Skipton
- St Helens
- Stockport
- Telford
- Wakefield
- Walsall
- Wendover
- Yeovil
The 13 trafficking routes used by grooming gangs to smuggle helpless victims
There have also been more than a dozen trafficking routes established by the sadistic perpetrators of these horrific crimes.
The longest journey undertaken was by Amos O’Cheng, who trafficked a drugged survivor 279.4 miles from Brighton to Preston.
Hedar Ali, from Bradford, completed the second-longest journey, taking him victims from Calderdale to Bradford, Leeds, Manchester and eventually even 205 miles away to London.
Another survivor recounted to GB News that they were trafficked from Rotherham to Bristol - a distance of 176 miles.
The longest journey undertaken was by Amos O’Cheng, who trafficked a drugged survivor 279.4 miles from Brighton to PrestonGB NewsThe full list of trafficking routes we have compiled:
The overwhelming number of Labour areas rocked by grooming gangs REVEALED as party rejects inquiry
A consistent pattern has emerged since horrific revelations about the grooming gangs scandal came to light.
Rape gang offences have disproportionately taken place in areas which return Labour MPs.
Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, all seats held by Labour MPs, recorded at least 2,500 child victims collectively.
Oldham, which contains two staunchly safe Labour seats, was also at the centre of the scandal in January when it was revealed that Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips rejected a Government-led inquiry into child victim abuses in the area.
Meanwhile, only a handful of traditionally Tory towns were involved in the scandal.
Banbury, a traditionally true blue Home Counties seat which was flipped by Labour last July, included a number of offences.
Essex's county town of Chelmsford, which finally broken its 74-year Tory stint to vote Liberal Democrat, also included a string of rape gang cases.
Grooming gangs are overwhelmingly represented in areas with Labour majorities
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Other Labour seats rocked by grooming gang scandals include:
What did Baroness Casey tell GB News?
Baroness Louise Casey expressed anger that ethnicity data on grooming gangs has not been collected for more than a decade.
Speaking to GB News after publishing her rapid audit findings on Monday, Casey said: "I'm angry myself that for the last decade plus, we haven't collected this type of ethnicity data to say, is it or isn't it a national problem?"
She also warned that this data gap "leads to people running amok with the fact they think there are cover ups and this and that".
Casey added: "The first definition of child sexual exploitation was the 2009 Government and I've looked at that period of time and tried to make sense of what's going on.
“So even though the numbers of cases of what they call group based child sexual exploitation, which is code for a very heinous crime, it may be small in number, but it's still pretty horrendous.
“In my view, we've got historic cases, there may be victims out there that haven't had justice.
"I think we should double back and do something about and there are current cases where I think the approach to dealing with grooming gangs is not sufficiently robust, and that essentially is what I found.
“There are two big things I've asked for nationally. One is a national criminal investigation.
"And obviously, when people are coming forward and reporting crime, and I think we need also, I've got a formula where I think we can go and try and find his historic victims and see if they want justice."
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