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    Sexually Abused Kids 'Failed' By The System

    The Government has admitted the system of protecting children from so-called "grooming gangs" is failing.

    An action plan to be published later calls on all local areas to take urgent measures to stop the sexual exploitation of youngsters.

    Children's Minister Tim Loughton will warn of failure by local agencies to recognise and deal with the problem of child sexual exploitation in many parts of the country.

    Mr Loughton will tell Parliament: "This country has to wake up to the fact that children are being sexually abused in far greater numbers than was ever imagined. It could be going on in every type of community and in every part of the country.

    "Too many local areas have failed to uncover the true extent of child sexual exploitation in their communities and failed to properly support victims and their families."

    Moves to make it easier for victims to go to court are among the proposals.

    Mr Loughton said it was "worrying" that many incidents went unreported because victims were unwilling to come forward.

    The Tackling Child Sexual Exploitation Action Plan will see police, heath bodies and social work agencies working more closely to detect child exploitation.

    Training will be improved for frontline staff.

    Linda's daughter was 15 when she fell pray to a gang of Asian men who gave her drugs and groomed her for sex.

    She told Sky News: "I just thought, 'Why my daughter, what has she done wrong?' In my own head I never knew at the time my daughter was being groomed."

    Linda's daughter, who cannot be named, was repeatedly raped by the gang.;

    She eventually became pregnant.

    "My daughter said to me that she was pregnant by a guy who had been grooming her.

    "She went to him, told him and she said she would be keeping the baby. She turned to walk away and this man grabbed her, tied her up, raped her, got his friend to join in.

    "They beat and kicked her and the next they took her for an abortion. They put bleach in my daughter's mouth to get rid of the baby."

    Gillian Gibbons, of child exploitation charity Crop, told Sky News: "The response to child sexual exploitation is very patchy.

    "We've got a number of parents that we're supporting whose children are being sexually exploited, where they are really struggling to be heard, to be believed, and where the tendency is to assume that they are to blame for what is going on."

    In October a report by Professor Jenny Pearce, of Bedfordshire University, warned as many as 10,000 children were being exploited by gangs - and that more than a quarter of the abusers were children themselves.

     

    96 comments

    • Kev_UK  •  6 months ago
      In Derby there was an Asian gang driving around in silver mercedes grooming young girls to put them to work as prostitutes. They were caught and put in prison. I bet this sort of thing happens all over the UK.
      • Leon 6 months ago
        It was happening in Hull, you can be sure it is happening in every large town and every city.
      • Troll 6 months ago
        Its the dirty Muslims, looking for young virgins on earth rather than waiting till after they die!
      • murdock 6 months ago
        They purposely target white girls and not their own its a practice that the government seems to accept. Just another way they are set out to destroy our country and it's culture.
    • POPS  •  6 months ago
      Until the punishment fits the crime, sadly, cases like this will go unchecked!
      • bluebell 6 months ago
        very true only last week a guy got 4 years for writing on his facebook asking people to riot in Cardiff, a sex abuser got 24 months for abusing a young girl.
      • Beth Laverette 6 months ago
        If you read the judges statements at these court cases it is clear that they don't think it's any big thing and do not understand how such things affect people for the rest of their lives, some people even kill themselves because they have suffered so
      • Biker B 6 months ago
        Apply Sharia Law to Asians simple enough and they would behave then.
    • Bent  •  6 months ago
      We need to have tough laws and punishment to be effective against child exploitation
      • PaulM 6 months ago
        We do have tough Laws for this But our Corrupt Judges Etc are Not applying them but are instead forming unlawful court systems, the Law is in place however the administrators of it are Not normal decent people for the most part, they are the Bassist of men and Women, and do not have a single care for common folk!.
    • Cussturd  •  6 months ago
      It beats me how children can be successfully groomed for sex by these vile creatures nowadays, after all the warnings and publicity. Surely they are aware of what is happening when someone 'comes on' to them. Children should be very clear about what to do if approached either physically or on the internet. Schools may be in a better position to help as not all children are willing to confide in their parents. Schools put up anti-drugs posters, why not anti-grooming posters as well?
      • STEVE 6 months ago
        Trouble is mate, that all kids like to be treated as adults
        It doesn't take much to gain a kid's confidence. Or grown ups for that matter
        I am sorry to say, that there is no answer
        Punishing the perpetrators, by imprisonment only removes them from the streets temporarily
        Others will come to replace them
        In my opinion, a cull is in order
      • bluebell 6 months ago
        many kids especially those low in self esteem feel flattered when somebody shows them any interest, they want to have a boyfriend like everybody else and often are unaware what is happening. These pigs go for the weak and vunrable and are often men in authority or men who the young person trusts.
      • Alice 6 months ago
        Great idea, Cusstard. Kids are not being taught about sexual abuse and how to recognise that it's happening to them under the pretence of maintaining their innocence. Unfortunately keeping all children ignorant means sacrificing some of them to the predators.
    • Pedro  •  6 months ago
      Failed by humanity in general.....
      • Enigma 6 months ago
        So dont trust in humans fool.
    • Nicholas  •  6 months ago
      Abused children ? ? ? ? ? . I lived in Macclesfield in Cheshire & had strong proof that youth workers & social workers were abusing children there in their care but it is a very SECRET society & like a private man's club or secret esoteric religion betrayal of the "inner circle" leads to death,& impossible to prove when so many are doing it ! One of the people that testified to me in GREAT detail "HOWARD MARLAND" (an EX child social worker) lost his job, his wife & family, his home, when he tried to take Macclesfield social services to court over child sex abuse allegations . . . he slowly got demoted from his post,, then sacked for some mediocre idiosyncrasy, became homeless & died of alcoholism, destitute & chronically ill . . . . Then people wonder why nobody will say anything MAY JESUS BRING JUSTICE HERE . . AMEN !
    • Catpads  •  6 months ago
      what is wrong with these people. i just don't understand how someone/some gangs can abuse and hurt children and people in general. life is dam hard as it is but with revolting people like these gangs and child abusers makes parents and families fear for their lives and others. it keeps me awake at night thinking of these poor innocent children and the only thing that keeps me going is that i hope one day these vile people see what they are doing but no doubt they will. they are too busy being scrotes of the earth, most probably not working but out stealing, robbing and abusing people. shame on them. shame on them.
    • easy4u2find  •  6 months ago
      Too right, when I reported a paedo to the NSPCC four years ago they didn't act, now he is on Facebook with lots of little girl friends. The C.u.u.n.nt got away with threatening me and the Police refused to do anything. #$%$ you, Lincolnshire Police, I hope your wives all run off with real men..
    • Joanna  •  6 months ago
      When I was taken into care at 4yrs I had been physically abused by my mother, however I was sexually abused by a care worker with social services at 14, so I pity what more abuse these kids will go through when they are in a system that allows abuse to continue. I am 40yrs and suffer with PTSD and clinical depression.
    • bob w  •  6 months ago
      when they catch the "groomers", cut their nuts off in public and film it happening. i'll bet it would cease overnight.
    • Rodger  •  6 months ago
      In the seventies the education system broke the (stronger) bond between parent and child. Sex education was one of them. I noticed this with my children. It must be a real struggle for some parents.
    • termite  •  6 months ago
      As an abused child I went into the mental health system and then had to 'reveal all' to a male doctor from a cultural background that approves child abuse e.g. FGM, child marriages etc. At my first interview I was asked some very intimate questions and allowed 40 minutes fro the consultation.
      I froze and couldn't say anything..
      I wanted a lady doctor, I complained and was told THE DOCTOR had a right to be treated as an 'equal' and my request for a female doctor could be seen as being racially motivated!
      I left the system and cope by self harming ... that's how much support we get!

      Doctors have rights but patients should too, where is 'patient choice', how about a little sensitivity in these case?
      Patients should have choice in whom they see in the same way that they do when they go to a GP practice. I am not surprised that kids don't speak up .... abused by, we then have tool to men about it .... how sick the NHS is when it comes to understanding!
    • THOMAS  •  6 months ago
      System failed due to politically correctness and multi-cultural sensitivities. Still, our economy has benefitted from all the extra take-aways - vibrant and diverse they is - lubberly.
    • M  •  6 months ago
      When I was young, many, many years ago, the girls in secondary school did their PE in navy blue knickers in front of us. We didn't leer at them, make disparaging remarks or obscene gestures towards them. These girls were aged between 12 and 15. Where did it all go wrong? I'm not saying we were perfect by any means - a quick visit behind the bike shed maybe - but nothing serious took place and we were probably very, very scared about getting caught. But then, girls did not dress provocatively and they were very innocent too. Now everything is so sexualised. You only have to look at adverts on TV - no matter what the goods are, there has to be a sexual connotation. Look at the magazines aimed at teenagers. My daughter had one once. I was appalled by the content - she was only thirteen. Youngsters drunk at the age of 12 or less leaving them open to abuse. What is going on?
    • Brigson  •  6 months ago
      Looking at indecent images of children is vile and disgusting. But whilst past governments have poured resources into this area, they have been turning a blind eye to actual physical sexual abuse of children on an industrial scale, because the culprits are mostly Pakistanis. Is that not even more vile?
    • Algernon Sherbet-dip  •  6 months ago
      The warped logic of the authorities does not help. There was a case in High Wycombe a few years ago where a man in his thirties was living with a 12 year old girl. To separate them was considered harmful to the girl as "she would feel she was doing something wrong". Then there is the multiculturism nonsense. A blind eye is turned towards female circumcision because "it's part of their culture". That it is child abuse in the home is not considered.
    • Godhelpusall  •  6 months ago
      Robin, Claws For Thought is an idiot who tries so hard to argue for the sake of it, it doesn't really believe what it says but says it any way. There are far too many of it's kind on here, they spoil the debate by their constant urge to seek attention.
    • D'Artagnan  •  6 months ago
      Anyone working in the Child Abuse sector will tell you that the biggest failing in the UK regarding these cases is the COURT SYSTEM.. I notice this procedure is allocated a one liner in this report "Moves to make it easier for victims to go to court are among the proposals". The whole procedure from the moment a child is detected as being abused is needing to be radically overhauled. What is the point in encouraging these already traumatised children into a legal system which is going to be every bit as brutal, demoralising, and abusive as their attackers were.
    • Martin  •  6 months ago
      And THIS was the headline in yesterday's Telegraph.. "Sex offenders including paedophiles should be allowed to adopt, Theresa May told"
    • Al  •  6 months ago
      Could it be that the system is part of the problem and not bothered about protecting the children, only covering up what is going on? Try googling for information about Holly Greig and see the cover up by the system.