BBC Sport investigation finds more than 160 cases of sports coaches engaging in legal sexual activity with 16 and 17 year olds in their care since 2016
There were more than 160 cases of sports coaches engaging in sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old in their care since 2016, a BBC investigation has found - prompting campaigners to say the law must be changed"urgently".
A Freedom of Information request by BBC Sport asked all councils in England and Wales for complaints made to them about cases involving sexual activity with a 16- or 17-year-old by a person potentially in a position of trust. Ms Champion, MP for Rotherham, told BBC Sport:"There is a gaping legal loophole that perpetrators of child abuse are walking straight into.
She said the BBC's figures for the number of cases"makes it irrefutable to the government that they have to act on this", but warned the numbers are the"tip of the iceberg"."And part of the reason for that is these sports coaches are grooming these children into believing they are in a legitimate relationship. It's not. It's an abuse of their power position.
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