Exclusive: Files expose hidden child sex scandal
Andrew Norfolk Chief Investigative Reporter
Last updated at 12:01AM, September 24 2012
Confidential police reports and intelligence files that reveal a hidden truth about the sale and extensive use of English children for sex are exposed today. They show that for more than a decade organised groups of men were able to groom, pimp and traffic girls across the country with virtual impunity. Offenders were identified to police but not prosecuted. A child welfare expert, speaking under condition of anonymity, said that agencies' reluctance to tackle such street-grooming networks was "the biggest child protection scandal of our time". The Times has published several articles about a pattern of crimes across northern England and the Midlands involving groups of men, largely of Pakistani heritage, and the sexual abuse of white…

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