The horrific trade in British children for sex

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The terrible plight of foreign women trafficked into the UK and forced to work as prostitutes has overshadowed a home-grown scandal

By Emily Dugan

Posing for her first school photograph, Joanne was like any other girl at the age of five. She loved drawing and painting, and her favourite game was to play hide-and-seek in the woods near her home in Leeds with her five siblings. As she grew, Joanne liked to hang around, chatting and laughing with friends. But soon after she turned 12, while out playing, she met a gang of men who were to become her pimps. They took advantage of her freedom, gained her trust and prepared to abuse her.

In the beginning, the men who befriended her had seemed nice enough: they showered her with compliments, bought her a phone, and one of them – a 42-year-old married man – became her "boyfriend". Within a year, she was forced into prostitution.

By the time she was 16, Joanne would disappear from the family home for weeks at a time. She was transported between Manchester, Rochdale, Bradford and countless other towns, locked into rooms and made to have sex repeatedly with men for money – not that she saw any of it.

Joanne is only one of many young women who have been subjected to such horrific ordeals across the UK. She is the victim of sex trafficking with a twist: not women brought in illegally from abroad and forced into prostitution, but British born. Targeted on estates throughout the country, they are passed from gang to gang, and work from town to town.

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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/revealed-the-horrific-trade-in-british-children-for-sex-2053047.html

[Cal33]

1. And Scotland Yard isn't doing anything about this?

[ThomCat]

2. How the hell could the police just continue to say that they

could do NOTHING about a CHILD being taken away for weeks at a time by strangers against the wishes of the parents?

WTF? :wtf:

How the hell ISN'T that a valid lawsuit for willful negligence?

[HipChick]

3. No..in the UK after 16 you are over the legal age of consent, can leave school etc

and for all intend and purposes treated as an adult

[ThomCat]

4. This started when she was under 16.

:(

[jberryhill]

7. What started when she was under 16?

Joanne does not appear to be a source for the story, the conclusion of which seems to be that Asians are up to no good.

[ThomCat]

8. Sorry. You're right. I misread the article.

I had to go back and reread.

I thought this started when she was 14 because of the part at the end when it ways that they'll have another 14 year old girl.

[jberryhill]

11. Notice a few other things the story says...

Of course they have another 14 year old - the mom has six other children and her primary means of keeping them from delinquency is stated to be locking them in the house. Her kid became a delinquent and she blames "Asians".

[east texas lib]

5. Horrific is exactly right...

And it seems to be world-wide.



www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/editorial/outlook/6808673.html

[Edweird]

6. Something similar occurs here in the states - it involves the US/Mexico border.

[Matariki]

9. Sounds like this also involves some parenting issues.

Like how uninvolved her parents must be that she can be 12 years old and have a 42 year old 'boyfriend'.

[Liberal_in_LA]

10. Where were the parents

[jberryhill]

12. Having six other kids

Read the story between the lines. The primary source is a rotten mother blaming others for her child's delinquency.