Unthinkable : the shocking scandal of Britain's trafficked children

The UK was shocked to its core in May 2012 when a gang of nine men was convicted of the systematic sexual abuse of disadvantaged teenage girls in the Rochdale area - the crimes including counts of rape, aiding and abetting rape, sexual assault and trafficking girls within the UK for sexual exploitation. Yet many childcare experts reckon these crimes are just the tip of an iceberg of wide scale exploitation occurring across the country. The Deputy Children's Commissioner Sue Berelowitz said in June 2012 that there 'isn't a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited'. As this book goes to press, a gang of men similar to those convicted in Rochdale stands trial for similar crimes in Oxford. What is happening in Britain that means young vulnerable girls can be exploited in this way? Award-winning journalist Kris Hollington tells the inside story of some of the most shocking and heartbreaking crimes of recent years, focusing on the Rochdale case but also analysing recent cases in the London area that have echoes of the brutality of organised slavery. His findings expose how the British justice system is failing to protect children in the 21st century. It is a scandal that cannot be ignored. Machine generated contents note: Part I 1. First Day Nerves 2. Girl No. 1 3. Begging for Help 4. The Girl Who Didn't Exist 5. The Bendy Bus Hotel 6. Ways of Escape 7. Suspicion Holds You Tight 8. The Song of the Social Worker 9. What I Think and Feel 10. The Placement Part II 11. Sarah's New Life 12. The PSCO Goes for a Walk 13. The Cuckoo Men 14. At the Drop-In 15. Turning Right 16. Nowhere Girls 17. Feet on the Stairs 18. Body Behind the Bin 19. Metamorphosis 20. Shock 21. Making Good 22. The Raid 23. In Care, in Danger 24. What the Crown Prosecution Service Doesn't Tell You 25. Abuse by Another Name Part III 26. What Happened in Rochdale 27. Twenty Years Ago 28.A Lonely Voice 29.A Prayer for Laura Wilson 30. The Secret Reports 31. Forgotten Victims 32.A Brief Interview with a Hideous Man 33. Colour Blind Part IV 34. The Invisible Weapon 35. Termination Day 36. Big Day Out. Award-winning journalist Kris Hollington investigates sex trafficking in the UK, in the light of the Rochdale scandal.