Seven men who sexually abused two girls two decades ago received hefty jail sentences in Britain on Friday as a result of the nation’s biggest ever investigation into child abuse.
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The men were imprisoned for between seven and 25 years after being convicted in June of offences committed in Rotherham, in northern England, in the early 2000s.
The cases stem from the National Crime Agency’s (NCA) Operation Stovewood, a decade-long investigation into child sexual abuse that is the largest of its kind in British history.
It began in 2014 following the publication of the Jay Report, which sent shock waves around the country.
It found that at least 1,400 girls were abused, trafficked and groomed by gangs of men of mainly Pakistani heritage in Rotherham between 1997 and 2013.