{"id":85154,"date":"2026-02-18T18:45:49","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:45:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/?p=85154"},"modified":"2026-02-18T18:45:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T18:45:49","slug":"teenage-girls-lured-into-forced-sex-by-gangs-in-london-bbc-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/2026\/02\/18\/teenage-girls-lured-into-forced-sex-by-gangs-in-london-bbc-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage girls lured into forced sex by gangs in London, BBC finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/ichef.bbci.co.uk\/ace\/standard\/1920\/cpsprodpb\/1f9a\/live\/2ff23460-0ccc-11f1-b5e2-dd58fc65f0f6.jpg\" alt=\"Young woman dressed all in black with bright red hair sits by window with back to reader. \" width=\"541\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Vulnerable women and girls as young as 14 are being lured into a world of forced sex by gangs in London, evidence uncovered by the BBC has found.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/articles\/cjd9xnjyy8po\"> Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Vulnerable women and girls as young as 14 are being lured into a world of forced sex by gangs in London, evidence&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21779,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[154],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85154","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-health"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/sexual-assault.jpg","amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85154","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85154"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85154\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85155,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85154\/revisions\/85155"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21779"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/positivelysharing.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}