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?