{"id":367559,"date":"2026-08-05T19:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/mother-of-grooming-gang-survivor-who-took-own-life-warns-against-early-release\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T19:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T18:00:08","slug":"mother-of-grooming-gang-survivor-who-took-own-life-warns-against-early-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/mother-of-grooming-gang-survivor-who-took-own-life-warns-against-early-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother of grooming gang survivor who took own life warns against early release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i4.ytimg.com\/vi\/WV7qCVVxV_I\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Mother of grooming gang survivor who took own life warns against early release\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WV7qCVVxV_I\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>\u201cLexi\u2019s\u201d abuse at the hands of a grooming gang in Rochdale began at just 13.<\/p>\n<p>After serving half his sentence, the standard for most prisoners, her sexual abuse perpetrator returned to Rochdale.<\/p>\n<p>He was fitted with an electronic tag and given a half-a-mile exclusion zone.<\/p>\n<p>After encountering him in a shop, \u201cLexi\u2019s\u201d mental health rapidly deteriorated and she soon took her own life.<\/p>\n<p>Her mother hopes the government\u2019s intervention to exclude those convicted of grooming and serious child sexual offences from the early release scheme will prevent more tragedies like \u201cLexi\u2019s\u201d. The government insists the scheme is necessary to prevent imminent running out of prison spaces.<\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cLexi\u2019s\u201d abuse at the hands of a grooming gang in Rochdale began at just 13. After serving half his sentence, the standard for most prisoners, her sexual abuse perpetrator returned to Rochdale. He was fitted with an electronic tag and given a half-a-mile exclusion zone. After encountering him in a shop, \u201cLexi\u2019s\u201d mental health rapidly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":367560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[128813],"tags":[],"actors":[],"class_list":["post-367559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-channel-4-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mother of grooming gang survivor who took own life warns against early release | News ISC Videos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Watch Mother of grooming gang survivor who took own life warns against early release for free, here on News ISC. 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