Prey: Giving a voice to the survivors of grooming gangs
This Is Why
Sky News
4.0 • 552 Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2025
⏱️ 22 minutes
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Summary
Grooming gangs continue to plague our communities. Through the voices of the survivors themselves, a new Sky documentary tells the story of the gangs and how they continue to exploit young girls.
Liz Lane and Sarah O’Connell are specialist producers who have been working with vulnerable and groomed women and girls for years, giving them the chance to tell their stories. They join Niall to talk about Scarlett and Danielle, and the reality of the abuse they’ve suffered.
You can watch Prey: Inside today’s grooming gangs on Sky News or our YouTube channel here.
Warning: this episode deals with grooming, drugs, violence and child sexual exploitation.
Producer: Soila Apparicio
Editor: Mike Bovill
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.0 | Coming up, a new Sky documentary tells the story of the grooming gangs that continue to plague our communities through the voices of the survivors themselves. |
| 0:18.4 | Just to warn you, we will be discussing grooming, harm and child sexual exploitation in this episode. |
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| 1:39.5 | Sky News specialist producers Liz Lane and Sarah O'Connell have been working with vulnerable |
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| 1:49.6 | basis of a new Sky documentary, Prey, inside today's grooming gangs, which is presented by the victims |
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| 2:02.8 | She was groomed and trafficked around Manchester to be raped by dozens of men from the age of 14. |
| 2:09.8 | And there's Danielle. She ended up in the care system after she was raped when she was 11 years old. |
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