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.