{"id":828,"date":"2015-03-26T13:04:44","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/?p=828"},"modified":"2021-12-01T14:52:00","modified_gmt":"2021-12-01T14:52:00","slug":"law-firm-makin-dixon-says-child-sex-abuse-grooming-massive-issue-for-huddersfield","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/law-firm-makin-dixon-says-child-sex-abuse-grooming-massive-issue-for-huddersfield\/","title":{"rendered":"Law firm Makin Dixon says child sex abuse grooming &#8216;massive issue&#8217; for Huddersfield"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Child sexual abuse grooming is a \u2018massive issue\u2019 for Huddersfield, a law firm has said.<\/p>\n<p>West Yorkshire <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/news\/business\/makin-dixon-celebrates-10-years-6794311\">law firm Makin Dixon<\/a>, which has offices on Queen Street, says it has been dealing with a marked increase in cases of girls being groomed for sex by older men.<\/p>\n<p>The company has been working to obtain injunctions to prevent perpetrators contacting their victims, some of whom have children to their abusers.\u00a0Makin Dixon partner, Jane Campbell, says victims and their relatives have become more willing to report abuse, which also includes \u2018honour\u2019 violence, forced marriage and female genital mutilation.\u00a0But much of it still passes \u2018under the radar\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Campbell, who works at Queen Street, says the company deals with hundreds of cases of \u2018honour\u2019 violence each year, together with about 100 cases of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/news\/west-yorkshire-news\/kirklees-forced-marriages-huddersfield-schools-8668378\">forced marriage<\/a>across West Yorkshire.<\/p>\n<p>Read More:\u00a0http:\/\/www.examiner.co.uk\/news\/west-yorkshire-news\/child-sex-abuse-grooming-massive-8906647<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Child sexual abuse grooming is a \u2018massive issue\u2019 for Huddersfield, a law firm has said. West Yorkshire law firm Makin Dixon, which has offices on Queen Street, says it has been dealing with a marked increase in cases of girls being groomed for sex by older men. The company has been working to obtain injunctions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[243,45,7,4,10,9,244],"class_list":["post-828","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-child-sexual-abuse-grooming","tag-female-genital-mutilation","tag-forced-marriage","tag-halo-project","tag-honour-based-violence","tag-violence","tag-west-yorkshire"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=828"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1847,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/828\/revisions\/1847"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=828"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=828"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haloproject.org.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=828"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}