{"id":189056,"date":"2025-06-16T13:16:09","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:16:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189056\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T13:16:09","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T13:16:09","slug":"i-was-shut-down-on-grooming-gangs-says-welsh-tory-leader-millar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/189056\/","title":{"rendered":"I was shut down on grooming gangs, says Welsh Tory leader Millar"},"content":{"rendered":"

In January, the Welsh Tory leader and the Senedd’s presiding officer clashed after Millar relayed the experiences of abuse survivor Emily Vaughn, who goes under a pseudonym, and who suffered some of the abuse in Wales.<\/p>\n

Ms Vaughn later accused Jones of “downplaying” her experience<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Jones said she had been “seeking to protect victims of abuse” and that she was “not sufficiently aware” that Vaughn had spoken publicly before.<\/p>\n

Millar said the new inquiry was a “vindication” for Ms Vaughn’s courage and bravery.<\/p>\n

A previous independent inquiry into the sexual abuse of children was led by Prof Alexis Jay and reported in 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In January, the Welsh Tory leader and the Senedd’s presiding officer clashed after Millar relayed the experiences of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":189057,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3937],"tags":[77,382,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-189056","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-tv","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114693235564749316","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189056"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189056\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/189057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}