"Criminals are at work, but they are also exploiting demand for sex with under-age children"

This article is very important it discusses in the UK, Barnardo's report called "puppet on a string" http://www.barnardos.org.uk/ctf_puppetonastring_report_final.pdf about child trafficking and child grooming. This is important because both of these activities are part of the agenda of deviants to sexually abuse a child. Part of how these deviants do this is by:

“Perpetrators often act in network, grooming victims to believe they are in a genuine romantic relationship before sexually exploiting them.

We need to all be aware of what grooming techniques are. How pedophiles think? Why they do the things they do? I am always concerned by the number of parents in particular who are unaware of these things. We don't want to be so paranoid that we don't trust anyone, but a little worry and paranoia is healthy. We also need to continue to educate children on this as well. One of the scary things with pedophiles is that they are able to worm their way into children's and parents lives by coming across as genuine, caring and sincere. But, there are always signs because most pedophiles use the same type of grooming techniques. I'll post on the grooming techniques outlined in the "pupped on a string" report later this week. Rosie

BULLFINCH UPDATE: Child exploitation is "a sickening slur on our society"
10:30am Friday 23rd March 2012 in News By Reg Little
 Barnardo’s chief executive Anne Marie Carrie Barnardo’s chief executive
Anne Marie Carrie

YESTERDAY’S arrests may have shocked Oxford but for experts it was part
of a disturbing increase in the sexual exploitation of children.
Over nine months last year, 15 British girls and a further 38 from other
nationalities were identified by the Child Exploitation and Online
Protection (CEOP) Centre as being sexually exploited, while children’s
charity Barnado’s said it dealt with 1,098 children who had been groomed
in 2010 – an increase of four per cent.

Reports from both organisations detail how abusers groom their victims.

The report from CEOP, the lead agency for tackling the sexual
exploitation of children revealed: “Child sexual exploitation is a
complex crime.

“Perpetrators often act in network, grooming victims to believe they are
in a genuine romantic relationship before sexually exploiting them.

“Some cases involve an element of trafficking, where a victim is taken
from their place of residence to another town or city within the UK for
the purposes of sexual exploitation.” All the victims in the report were
girls and chief executive Peter Davies said: “Our report showed that
child sexual exploitation affects children of many different backgrounds
across the country.”

Barnado’s report, Puppet On A String, said trafficking was becoming more
common and more organised.

It highlighted cases where girls are groomed, often by a younger man,
and then passed on to older men.

Barnardo’s chief executive Anne Marie Carrie said: “Too many children
from all walks of life can so quickly be caught up in a world of drugs,
violence and sex – this is a sickening slur on our society and we must
do all we can to end it.

“Wherever we have looked for exploitation we have found it. But the real
tragedy is we believe this is just the tip of the iceberg.”

Some reports and politicians have focused on the ethnicity of abusers,
with children as young as 11 said to have been targeted by mainly Asian
staff in fast food outlets in Blackpool and Asian men held to be
ringleaders of a Derby gang, jailed for grooming girls as young as 12.

But Ms Carrie said that while ethnicity was an issue in some
geographical areas, it would be misleading and dangerous to view it as
the only determining factor.

Oxfordshire MEP Catherine Bearder believes no community can afford to be
complacent.

She said: “Trafficking is happening in our communities. We must be the
eyes and ears for the police.

“There may be other people in the community who have been affected and I
would urge them to come forward and seek help.”

The MEP has been spearheading a campaign aimed at raising awareness of
the problem of trafficking in our towns and cities. On Monday she is
opening a training seminar on human trafficking being held at Oxford
Brookes University.

Esther Davidson, from Oxford Community Against Trafficking (OXCAT),
said: “When trafficking was exposed in Oxford last year, our city was
shocked that it could happen here.


“We now have to face the fact that modern slavery takes place in our
community, and it involves children. Yes, criminals are at work, but
they are also exploiting demand for sex with under-age children.”

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/headlines/9608619.BULLFINCH_UPDATE__...

I saw this and I thought of some of you ...

"But Ms Carrie said that while ethnicity was an issue in some
geographical areas, it would be misleading and dangerous to view it as
the only determining factor."

WM

http://groups.google.com/group/uk.legal/browse_thread/thread/e56ff667cc145841#