Victims numbered in the thousands not the hundreds, she said. The deputy commissioner told the visibly-stunned MPs that 'what is being done is so terrible that people need to lay aside their denial' or risk victims being disbelieved. And in terms of victims we are seeing the same sort of profile.'Įthnic minority victims were 'too often missed out'. 'I regret to say that there are parts of every single community - white, Pakistani, Afghan, Gypsy and Romany travellers, you name it - who are seeing children as easy access in terms of sexual exploitation. Horror: Children are being targeted on Facebook - and in one instance word of a gang rape was spread by BlackBerry messengerīut while it may be true that some Pakistani men saw white girls as 'easy meat' - as suggested by a number of high-profile politicians - that was only one pattern among many, she said. In the Rochdale case, nine Muslim men, mainly of Pakistani origin, were found guilty of plying girls as young as 13 with drink and drugs so they could use them for sex. 'I wish I could say to you that such things are uncommon but I’m afraid they are quite common.' 'Then another group of boys come, they take her to another part of the park and she is serially raped again,' Ms Berelowitz told MPs. Giving examples from the capital, she said: 'There are parts of London where certainly children expect to have to perform oral sex on line-ups of boys, up to two hours at a time from the age of 11.Īnd it was 'quite common' for girls to be lured via internet chat rooms to meet a friend, only to be met by a group of boys and gang raped in a park. Her report into the scale of child abuse is due out in September. It is very sadistic, it is very violent it is very ugly.' That is part of what is going on in some parts of our country. 'In urban, rural and metropolitan areas, I have hard evidence of children being sexually exploited.
'We should start from the assumption that children are being sexually exploited right the way across the country. 'The evidence that has come to the fore during the course of my inquiry is that that, unfortunately, appears to be the case. 'Parents may think they can control what’s going on because they can have a blockage on the computer but the reality is children can get anything they like on their mobile phones' - Deputy Children’s Commissioner Sue Berelowitz told MPs
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