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Oxford grooming gang survivors tell BBC 'hundreds' of abusers still free
Watch: 'I see my abusers in the supermarket' - survivors of Oxford gang tell of ongoing torment
Warning: This story contains details of sexual violence
Survivors of an Oxford grooming gang say they still see men who sexually abused them, and who have not been brought to justice, walking around the city.
"A shop, a petrol station, a restaurant - everywhere you can imagine - you'll see a man that's done something," one survivor, Sarah, tells BBC Panorama.
Sarah and two other survivors believe "hundreds" of perpetrators are still free. An ex-police detective who led the initial investigation into grooming gangs in Oxford agrees.
It is the first time that Sarah (whose name we have changed) and one of the other women have spoken out publicly about what they were subjected to.
Gangs of men were found to have sexually exploited and abused underage girls in several towns and cities - including Rotherham, Rochdale and Telford, as well as Oxford - between the 1990s and 2010s.
Oxford was one of the places where most of the perpetrators were identified as older men of Pakistani heritage. In some cases, such as in Rotherham, police were accused of hesitating to act out of fear of being seen as racist. But in Oxford a serious case review found no evidence that this had been a factor.
Now, the government has launched a national inquiry to address why vulnerable children were not protected in England and Wales - including whether attitudes to the girls or the ethnicity of the perpetrators contributed to the failings.
Sarah, whose image is blurred to protect her identity, said the gang had "taken her life"