Claim: A million children have been gang raped and groomed in the UK.
Fact-check: Many children have been the victims of grooming gangs, but there's no evidence for a figure of one million - Full Fact
Verdict: this figure is not reliable. it appears to come from assuming that the number of suspected cases of child sexual exploitation in 2018/19 can be multiplied by 30 years—which still does not reach one million. we don't know what the true number is.
Organisation: Full Fact
Author: Leo Benedictus
Date published: 2020-07-24T00:00:00