Posted February 25, 200718 yr Britain. More than 5,000 children are being forced to work as sex slaves in the UK, including thousands trafficked to this country by criminal gangs, The Independent on Sunday can reveal. An important study of global slavery exposes Britain as a major transit point for the movement of child slaves around the world. Commissioned by social research charity the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the report paints a shocking picture of an international web of gangmasters exploiting children as young as five, as well as vulnerable women. Many are threatened with violence, then sold into the sex trade or forced to become domestic servants, says the report, to be published tomorrow. The human trafficking trade now generates an estimated £5bn a year worldwide, making it the second biggest international criminal industry after the drugs trade. Children's charities in Britain say there has been a "dramatic" rise in referrals of trafficked children to sexual exploitation services. An investigation by The Independent on Sunday has found that gangs, especially those from Romania and Lithuania as well as Africa, are increasingly targeting Britain because markets in other European countries such as Spain and Italy are saturated. Tony Blair pledged in January this year that he would sign up to a European convention to "stamp out" the "evil" of slavery, which was supposedly abolished 200 years ago next month. His move was in response to fierce lobbying by MPs and human rights charities. But the report finds that the UK's response to trafficking is too biased towards law enforcement at the expense of victim protection. It also reveals that many victims are deported to their home country where they face assault from gangs and the threat of being retrafficked. The Joseph Rowntree Foundation is urging ministers to draw up policies that treat those in slavery as victims, not as immigration cases.
February 25, 200718 yr i cant see that as being true tbh.... Umm, why not mate... :unsure: It's from the "Independent On Sunday", not the sodding News of the Screws, so I'm actually willing to believe most of it seeing as it's a vastly more reliable source.... And, frankly, it would not surprise me in the least to be honest, there's always been considerable anecdotal evidence to support the existence of 'White Slavery' and considerably MORE than anecdotal evidence to support the existence 'Sex Trafficking' of young girls from former Soviet Bloc countries... So, frankly mate, I fail to see what you find so hard to believe about this story....
February 25, 200718 yr but 5,000?... kids?... i dare say it does go on much as the traficking of women does, but surely not at that scale..
February 25, 200718 yr but 5,000?... kids?... i dare say it does go on much as the traficking of women does, but surely not at that scale.. Well, the article is unspecific about the period of time we're talking about... 5000 in a single year would perhaps be unrealistic, but 5000 over a period of, say, 5 years....? I dont think such a figure over that period of time is so outlandish....
March 13, 200718 yr I consider that the figures are a bit exagerated too :blink: I read also here in Italy about the fact that these criminal gangs are going on Britain, because Italy and Spain are over-saturated by this problem. But not even in these countries there are not numbers of kids like 5,000 <_< I guess if there were so many kids "abused" by these gangs, policemens would notice easier this traffic :( The main problem is the traffic with females and not kids, and those number are really scarring... Imagine that the free "metro" newspapers in italy, have written oon them an announce in Romanian, asking to the females that are abused to call a free number :o This means the problem is really BIG <_< xox.
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