An organized gang that raped children in the UK was
protected
assiduously by thugs: when a researcher discovered what was going
on and reported it, they threatened to expose the researcher to the
gang.
There are laws that dishonestly claim that every time someone under 16
or 18 (depending on where) has sex, it is "rape". Calling willing sex
"rape" does not make it rape, and calling a 17-year-old who wants to
have sex a "child" does not make that teenager a child.
However, this gang committed
real
rapes, and other real violence, and its victims included real
children.