Child Sex Attack 'Every 20 Minutes' Last Year

I was a juror on a paedophile case recently - father abused his son & daughter, then aged 5 & 6 - truly horrific. Their mother had died, he had another woman pregnant within 3 weeks. Raped the children repeatedly - blamed his 20 cans of lager a day. Listening to the kids give evidence - very articulately - via video link - was heart rendering - and believe me, kids cannot make up the things they described. I had to deliver the verdicts as foreman of the jury - 14/15 of us found him guilty (in Scotland we need 8 to convict) - so it was a majority as opposed to unanimous verdict but still enough for 11.5 yrs. Not long enough..................we were then informed he had 29 previous convictions (and those were only the ones on record). I felt relieved that we wee right, and that the kids are in a happy foster home. They never want to see their father again.

Am a victim of CSA, I lived all my life hiding it due to fear of my family and its reputation. I was too young to seek help or even understand. My life is ruined, my biological being is ruined and after so many years my childhood still has death grip of me. It was incest (I learnt this term when I was about 10). I could never have a normal life (am 25 now). Im always suicidal from the sick feeling of being "dirty", even till today. I can never feel "clean". Its a sick life, its sick what happened to me. I wouldn't wish it upon my worst enemy. I cant read news articles like this, I just couldn't stop crying...You have no idea how painful it is to live after something like that. Justice was never served in my life. Just as a million cases everywhere. So many goes unreported, perpetrator always gets away. Lives are always ruined. I wish one day it could all stop. I wish one day I could feel normal..

How many of the attackers are strangers? I think that the answer is "very few". One of the unintended consequences of press excitement is that children are taught to fear strangers. That means that they can't tell a stranger when something terrible is happening. Yes, some children are abducted (and usually killed) by horrible people, but the fear is out of all proportion to the risk. Being killed by lightning strike is actually more likely than a child being abducted by a stranger. Remember that in the Soham case, the girls knew their killer and his girlfriend.

We, as a society must act. These victims sometimes NEVER recover from their ordeals. Their self-esteem, their confidence, their self image is sometimes smashed to such an extent that they lose the building blocks that are required to become successful, happy adults. They (the victims) have their own life sentences to cope with ............AND SO SHOULD THE PERPETRATORS!

What worries me is the increase in reported cases of "young" offenders out there! We must ask why this is happening, and not just ignore it!

Child abusers, rapists and murderers. Soon as they are found guilty, put a bullet in their head. Not a hug and a cushy prison where they get better treated than tax payers! Everyone can see prisons don't act as a detterent or reform people.

And before any goes on about human rights, to commit these acts shows you aren't human.

Further to my previous comment I would like to add a real example of natural justice and its effectiveness. For a period, I lived in a fishing village on one of the Canary Islands. Some years before I lived there a local man had sexually molested a local child. Under cover of darkness, that man was bundled into a fishing boat and dumped far out at sea where he drowned. There was never another case of child abuse in that village or any other in the region.

jesus christ what kind of society are we living in ? as a nation were failing to protect our children , if they get caught they go to prison , then protected inside away from the normal inmates , then hidden when they get released , no wonder theres so many child molesters about , GOVERMENT CHANGE THE FKN LAW

No one is mentioning the horrendous increase in the sexualisation of society in general. Pornography plays a big part in this and as adults, in order to stop sexualising children we have to stop sexualising ourselves. Shameful!

Having worked with child abuse victims in the 80's I thought nothing would shock me. These figures have made my flesh crawl, it really has shocked me to the core. I have to agree with some of the earlier comments 'What sort of world do we live in' that harbour such evil'

My 6 year old daughter is going through a custody case she had a complete change of personality and has twice said worrying statements once she pointed at a photo of her uncle in a contact centre and said he dirtied her pants. Social services and CAFCASS where only interested if it was her step father (who has the same name). The innocent voice of a child is totally ignored. My solicitor has told me of so many cases where the guilty party is never charged due to the childs age. It is very worrying, something needs to be done to protect our children. We will soon be the holiday destination for peadofiles!

Sick people .....Children are so precious how can they do this and get away with it....Bstards.......@#$%
If my children were subject to such evil, I know what I would do....

I doubt if these figures include the sexual abuse of children by Jews and Muslims!

It is common for Jews to sexually mutilate their baby boys at 9 days old. They subdue the baby with wine and then slice off his prepuce (foreskin). Then with a spatula or a specially shaped finger nail the adhering tissue is scrapped from the glans. Some will then suck the @#$% by mouth to suck the blood, some use a glass or plastic tube to do it.

Recently in London a Jewish baby died 15 minutes after this type of abuse and nothing was done about it.

Muslims prefer that their boys are 5 years old or older so that they consciously remember all the searing pain as they 'become a man' with their tribal amputation.

In both cases there is no way the abused can stop any of it, in both cultures they are held down and it is forced upon them.

In the case of Female Genital Mutilation that has had a specific law to protect them since 1985, to this date the law has never been used by anyone to protect a single girl and the NSPCC is mute on the issue.

Please don't donate to this cowardly charity, instead donate to Norm-UK or the newly formed charity Genital Autonomy, they struggle with this most difficult issue of sexual abuse.

Kevin Elks, Dover, Kent.

What a terrible statistic - much worse in fact because many victims are too afraid to tell anyone.

James Y... you want to try telling my young daughters that they should have just run away? What a horrible thing to say! My girls, both still under 12 have been through a nightmare I never wish on anyone, and as a parent its been the most heartbreaking thing to watch as they fall to pieces. They are suicidal, disturbed, aggressive, wet the bed, have nightmares.... list goes on. They think its ok for a child to have sex... to touch others... etc. Its took a yr for it to go through court, before they can now have councelling. They couldnt run away from him, it was a paternal family member... a sick twisted old man, and they were to scared to tell anyone what was going on.
I just pray that this stops happening to children, but it wont. Theres far too many out there still happening that may never be told. I( can just pray that all children affected by child abuse/rape recover one day... just like I hope my own children will.

It is time children from an early age were taught what abuse is, openly, so if they come across it in their lives maybe they can talk openly to someone and it can be stopped. Instead we all hide it under the carpet, such a hush hush subject.

What isn't mentioned is the ethnicity of the bulk of the offenders. Though much can be assumed from the geographical locations of the forces mentioned.
We know and the authorities know that these are very closed communities and that child marriage, arranged marriages and incestual relationships are common.
What do we expect when the government and the Police turn a blind eye wherever possible to crimes within these communities? Bodies turning up in Bradford faster than one can say multiple identity benefit fraud.
Until we can racially profile crime and stop ignoring the activities of these people with a hair trigger riot gene, then this is set to continue.
This is the kind of Policing we came to expect under Blair and Brown, is the coalition going to be any different?

What?! This sounds like a hugely shocking figure to me! What the Hell is going on out there!?

they should arrest the abuser then castrate them put them in prison
then after few weeks hang em they are the scum of the earth

No wonder! Have you seen all the porn and trash they show on TV these days. People are feeding their minds on all this disgusting filth. No wonder they then do terrible things.

Too much emphasis on sex everywhere. Sex education at school-ugh, tv, films, videos etc, pumped into children from every corner, We were innocent as children and 'sex' was unheard of. Maybe old-fashioned, but we had other interests and were happy with simple pleasures. Sad our society has deteriorated so badly, guess that's 'progress'