Sexual Acts Against Children

Sexual Acts Against Children The Government has been encouraged to act as figures show that over 400 children are sexually abused every week; 1 in every 20 minutes. In England & Wales, there were over 23,000 recorded child sex offences in 2011. These include a whole range of offences that HSandCo regularly deal with such as rape, incest, child prostitution and child pornography. The NSPCC want the Government to treat this plethora of offences as if it were dealing with an outbreak of chronic diease. The cost in the Met Police area is about £36 million a year investigating child abuse. This contrasts with an estimated £40 million bill for probing phone hacking by the News of the World and their ilk. The ratio seems to be 6 times as many girls were abused as compared with boys. However, in the experience of the Sexual Offences team at HSandCo a considerable number of offences in this sometimes delicate or difficult area of work go unrecorded. There also seems to be differing resources employed by each of the 43 police forces of England & Wales.