UNITED KINGDOM
Staffordshire Newsletter
THE RECENT lifting of reporting restrictions on a series of trials for sexual abuse, child prostitution and trafficking in Telford have highlighted the vulnerability of young people in a number of ways for which church members, neighbours and schools should be alert, writes the Rt Reverend Geoff Annas.
“Children are vulnerable to all sorts of sexual and mental abuse,” said the Bishop of Stafford and chair of the Diocese of Lichfield’s safeguarding team.
“I spent eight years as a social worker and never came across the degree of manipulation and abuse that this and other recent cases have highlighted. It is truly horrific and we continue to pray for survivors in all our communities.”
The police investigation into abuse and trafficking in Telford is at the heart of a Channel 4 documentary that will be shown tomorrow night (23).
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