Greater Manchester Police have confirmed that three men from Rochdale have been charged with a series of offences relating to alleged child sexual exploitation (CSE) dating back to 2008 and 2009.

The latest child sexual exploitation trial in Rochdale has once again exposed the harrowing abuse suffered by vulnerable girls—and the deep-rooted failures that allowed it to happen.

Two men have been sentenced for a series of sexual offences committed against three teenage girls in Leeds, following an investigation by Leeds District Safeguarding Unit.

At Switalskis, we represent a number of women involved in the Government’s inquiry into Group-Based Child Sexual Abuse. This includes survivors who remain part of the consultative process and others who have chosen to resign due to the distressing circumstances surrounding the inquiry’s progression.

At Switalskis, we represent a number of survivors involved in the Government’s national inquiry into grooming gangs, including Fiona Goddard, who has now resigned from the victims and survivors liaison panel alongside Ellie Reynolds and a third survivor, “Elizabeth.”

A man who groomed and abused a vulnerable teenager in care has had his prison sentence increased from 18 to 23 years by the Court of Appeal. The survivor, who was just 15 when she was coerced into a so-called marriage with Raja Zulqurnean, lived in a Bradford children’s home at the time.

On Wednesday, 1 October 2025, six men were charged with serious non-recent sexual offences against girls in Kirklees, West Yorkshire. The alleged offences are reported to have taken place between 1994 and 1998. All six individuals are due to appear before Kirklees Magistrates’ Court on Thursday, 2 October.

The recent convictions of Mohammed Zahid and six other men for the rape and grooming of two girls in Rochdale, have once again exposed deep and disturbing failures by police and social services.