2023-01-23
This time it's the Home Office in the cross-hairs, according to the Observer as reported by the Guardian.
"Dozens of asylum-seeking children have been kidnapped by gangs"
"A whistleblower ... and child protection sources describe children being abducted off the street outside the hotel and bundled into cars"
" ... the Home Office was warned repeatedly by police that the vulnerable occupants of the hotel – asylum-seeking children who had recently arrived in the UK without parents or carers – would be targeted by criminal networks"
But is it just a one-off?
" ... the ... whistleblower also described witnessing children being in effect trafficked from a similar hotel run by the Home Office in Hythe, Kent, estimating that 10% of its youngsters disappeared each week"
So not just a London problem then?
Are we perhaps (appalling thought) looking at abuse on an industrial scale? How many of these "Home Office hotels" are we talking about?
