Trafficking kids for crime
I saw on the TV last night that Panorama will be presenting a show about how children are trafficked across Europe to beg and steal. It's nice that the TV and authorities have finally picked up on this problem, indeed the Crown Prosecution Service now has a whole team dedicated to trafficking and a policy about it too . Trafficking has it's sexy side - by which I mean a side that gets reported regularly, probably because it involves sex, which gives the newspapers the chance to titillate their weird readers and set the tongues of everybody else tutting at the inhumanity of johnny foreigner and/or the vile indifference of men who pay for sex. What rarely gets reported is the flood of kids who are brought to the UK (and indeed every other European country) so that they can beg and steal. This isn't reported presumably because then the press would have to side with the feral youth whose crimes they like to gleefully report. These kids in my experience are usually betwe...