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Child grooming scandals only 'tip of the iceberg', says Government minister
Children are being groomed for sex on a huge scale across Britain but police have only uncovered "the tip of the iceberg", a Government minister has said.Tim Loughton, the children's minister, said there is a "real problem in this country" with exploitation of children. The MP spoke out after a series of recent cases in which men have been jailed for grooming young girls for sex. Speaking in the House of Commons, Mr Loughton said he has long though the grooming of children for sex is "much bigger problem than it may appear now on the radar". He said recent court cases show the authorities are "at last waking up" to the scandal. The most high-profile prosecution has been against nine Muslim men found guilty of grooming young white girls for sex in Rochdale. Following the trial, Baroness Warsi, the Coalition's only Muslim minister, argued that a small minority of Pakistani men see white women as "third-class citizens" and "fair game". Mr Loughton yesterday said the authorities must not "shy away from difficult issues around culture" when addressing the exploitation of children. He said the case raised "very troubling questions about the attitude of the perpetrators, all but one of whom were from Pakistani backgrounds, towards white girls". But he said there were victims and exploiters from "all social and ethnic sets as well". Posted by: lotp 2012-06-14 |
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