Child Sexual Abuse

Byline Times investigation finds that 40% of all sexual offences committed by Royal Air Force personnel between 2014 and 2024 involved children

"'Lessons learned' is an entirely vacuous phrase if lessons aren’t being learned" warns new report after a series of deadly warnings were ignored

Newly-released figures expose the huge hurdles that victims and their families face in order to get justice

Out of the 10,641 convictions for sexual offence cases last year, at least 7,500 were related to the abuse of children under the age of 18 - 1,635 involved victims who were under 13

Andrew Kersley spent five months speaking to survivors of child sexual exploitation and experts on the ‘grooming’ of vulnerable women by far-right groups to understand why it is happening

Part Two: The interconnectedness of far-right groups reflects the extent to which those holding extreme beliefs have used the issue of child sexual exploitation to further their own ends

Part Three: In 2020, a two-year study of crime data and academic research by the Home Office concluded that 'group-based offenders are most commonly white'

Part Four: The far-right is able to present itself as ‘filling the gap’ left by a lack of services with its own range of 'support' for survivors

Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the cover story of the May 2024 print edition is one which must urgently be told

With its fourth former staff member charged with the sexual abuse of children in recent years, Byline Times delves into the dark past of Britain’s most famous – and troubled – private school