StatusClosed
Opened25 Mar 2025
Closes25 Sept 2025
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I want the Government and Parliament to stop using the words "grooming" and "grooming gangs". I feel they are euphemisms being used in official publications to describe horrible, violent sexual abuse of children including rape, torture, kidnapping and imprisonment.
I think that the use of euphemisms to describe criminal offences does considerable harm. A 12-year-old child who has been raped may not think she has been "groomed".
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1Sir Iain Duncan Smith MP
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Derby South3Jo White MP
Bassetlaw4Chris Webb MP
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Bolton North East6Marie Goldman MP
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Cheltenham8Paul Davies MP
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