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Oxfordshire grooming victims may have totalled 373 girls Oxfordshire grooming victims may have totalled 373 girls
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Up to 370 girls may have been targeted for sex by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the last 16 years, a serious case review found. As many as 373 girls may have been targeted for sex by gangs of men in Oxfordshire in the last 16 years, a serious case review found.
As many as 373 victims may have been abused, the report said.
The investigation came after a sadistic sex gang of seven men were jailed in 2013 for abusing six girls in Oxford, between 2004 and 2012.The investigation came after a sadistic sex gang of seven men were jailed in 2013 for abusing six girls in Oxford, between 2004 and 2012.
Thames Valley Police and Oxfordshire County Council have been criticised for missing opportunities to act sooner. Thames Valley Police and Oxfordshire County Council made "many errors" in that case and could have acted sooner.
The chair of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board Maggie Blyth said: "What happened to the victims is deeply disturbing. A victim of the gang said the issue had been "swept under the carpet".
Speaking at a press conference, the chair of the Oxfordshire Safeguarding Children Board (OSCB) Maggie Blyth, said: "What happened to the victims is deeply disturbing.
"It is shocking that these children were subjected to such appalling sexual exploitation for so long.""It is shocking that these children were subjected to such appalling sexual exploitation for so long."
'Disgusting' treatment
The report, compiled by the OSCB, found authorities made mistakes and could have acted sooner but it found no evidence of wilful neglect or that the signs of exploitation were ignored.
It blamed a lack of action on three key attitudes of those in power:
A victim of the gang, who was 13 when the abuse started, told BBC News: "Looking back as an adult now, it's disgusting the way we were treated.
"My mother would [tell authorities] she's been with older males... she's been beaten up, she's been injected with heroin.
"That was not enough for them to do anything about it, [to the authorities] we were just troublesome girls, probably a bit gobby, a bit aggressive and they just didn't want to know.
"They [the men] used to pick girls up outside social services offices on the Cowley Road, if that doesn't say something then I don't know what does."