A victim of the Rotherham abuse scandal has defended Elon Musk. (Image: Getty)
A victim of the Rotherham abuse scandal has defended Elon Musk over his comments on grooming gangs, telling those who disagree with him to “get a grip”.
Sammy Woodhouse was a victim of the child exploitation scandal and helped expose it by giving an anonymous interview to The Times. Since then, she has become an activist supporting child sexual abuse victims forced to commit crimes by their abusers.
Woodhouse took to Mr Musk’s social media platform X to staunchly defend him after he wrote a series of posts accusing Sir of failing to bring “rape gangs” to justice and calling him
She lauded the tech billionaire for doing more to raise awareness of child grooming in the UK “than anyone else in British history” and slammed critics
She wrote: ” has raised more awareness around the world in regards to children in the UK being groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked and murdered than anyone else in British history and yet people are sat here moaning about it and picking him apart. Grow up and get a grip.”
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Elon Musk has raised more awareness around the world in regards to children in the UK being groomed, abused, raped, tortured, trafficked and murdered than anyone else in British history and yet people are sat here moaning about it and picking him apart. Grow up and get a grip.…
— S A M M Y woodhouse (@sammywoodhouse1)
Mr Musk also went so far as to call for along with Safeguarding Minister Jess Phillips for the Government’s handling of the grooming gangs scandal.
In a series of posts on his platform, he claimed, “Starmer is complicit in the crimes”, “Starmer must go. He is [a] national embarrassment”, and “Starmer is guilty of terrible crimes against the British people”.
The Tesla CEO then asked on Monday morning if “America should liberate the people of Britain from
The same day, the prime minister , accusing him of spreading “lies and misinformation” in regards to the grooming scandal.
He said: “Those that are spreading lies and misinformation as far and as wide as possible, they are not interested in victims. Those who are cheering Tommy Robinson are not interested in justice.
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“They are supporting a man who went to prison for nearly collapsing a grooming gang case. These are people trying to get some kind of vicarious thrill from street violence that people like Tommy Robinson promote.
“And those attacking Jess Phillips, who I am proud to call a colleague and a friend, for not protecting victims – Jess Phillips has done 1000 times more than they’ve even dreamt about.
“And so, just as I took on the criminal justice system and the institutions when I was chief prosecutor, I’m prepared to call out this for what it is. We’ve seen this playbook many times, whipping up of intimidation and threats of violence.”