Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring, police have said, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.
The National Crime Agency said the growth in offending across the UK was driven by technology and linked to the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal.
Most contact with children happened on mainstream social media platforms, with algorithms pushing paedophilic material to people who have shown a previous interest in it.
The significant increase in every measure “really worries us”, said Rob Jones, the NCA’s director general of operations.
Leads about people interested in sexually abusing children had risen tenfold in a decade, he said, with 1,200 children a month being safeguarded.
Last time I checked he isn’t from the UK
He visits Russia more than UK
the head of lettuce PM visited him recently.
Maduro him
I had the same thought, except “do the US next, and start at the top.” Because so what if you jail 1000 paedophiles in the US. They’re all empowered by knowing their president is one as well and that he seems untouchable. Just like he’s empowered racists and homophobes and others who identify as like him.
The UK has done a fabulous job; they’ve had a lot of high profile cases and there’s still much work to be done, but they heard a royal was in the Trump-Epstein files and they stripped him of his title. That’s awesome and people in the US would love to see the same happen to their “royals” (i.e. the wealthy).