Children face horrific sex crimes in UK

England’s Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz was commissioned to launch an inquiry into the country’s 455 children’s care homes amid new government reforms to better protect youngsters, the daily Morning Star reported.

The probe was ordered after the jailing of a paedophile sex ring that preyed on vulnerable girls in Rochdale in May.

Children in care are particularly vulnerable to child sex exploitation while some residential homes are being specifically targeted by abusers, the ongoing inquiry revealed.

Berelowitz said perpetrators come from all ethnic groups, as do their victims, who are largely but not exclusively girls.

“It is of a violent and sadistic nature”, she said of the abuse.

“I’ve been in the children’s services field for a very long time and I have never come across the scale of violence and sadism that I’m encountering now.

“The stories that children and young people tell us are truly horrific.”

Children’s charity Barnardo’s said that 31 per cent of the 3,500 young people it looked after through its sexual exploitation services in the last six years were in care.

“We know that children from all walks of life are at risk of child sexual exploitation, but those who are already vulnerable, such as children in care, are especially so”, said chief executive Anne Marie Carrie.

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