British-born teenagers being trafficked for sexual exploitation within UK, police say / Guardian, 3 July 2008
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2008/jul/03/childprotection.internationalcrime
Nick Kinsella
"Teenage girls born in Britain are being trafficked for sexual exploitation within the UK, police said yesterday, adding that children are being "groomed" by men acting as boyfriends who carry out the abuse and then take the youngsters to other towns for further exploitation. Officers fear that as many as 33 girls between the ages of 12 and 15 could have been involved in a case uncovered in Sheffield last year. Only one, a 15-year-old, was willing to give evidence in court, but following that a 23-year-old man was jailed for 10 years for serious sexual offences which included rape of a child. Five other men faced deportation procedures."