{"id":160746,"date":"2022-10-09T08:53:03","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T08:53:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/?p=160746"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:20:07","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:20:07","slug":"voices-our-children-are-at-risk-it-s-time-to-get-tough-on-county-lines-grooming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/voices-our-children-are-at-risk-it-s-time-to-get-tough-on-county-lines-grooming","title":{"rendered":"Voices: Our children are at risk &#8211; it&#8217;s time to get tough on county lines grooming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s failure to tackle the cost of living crisis has heightened the dangers children face from grooming and exploitation by criminal gangs. Abusers seeking to lure children into running drugs thrive on the deprivation that so badly scars our society . So much of this vile criminal activity is linked to the supply of drugs along county lines, to suburban areas, as well as to market and coastal towns. Here in London, we have lost so many children to grooming and exploitation and gang violence in pursuit of profit. Throughout 2021, 30 teenagers are reported to have been killed in London alone, and this is just the tip of the iceberg. Then there&#8217;s the abject devastation and misery for families of children caught up in the criminal justice system after being groomed and violated, with life chances lost, and years wasted in prison. Youth violence is on the rise , with the Metropolitan Police warning that England could see<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The government&#8217;s failure to tackle the cost of living crisis has heightened the dangers children face from grooming and exploitation by criminal gangs.Abusers seeking to lure children into running drugs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,10],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-160746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-public-safety","tag-public-safety"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}