London: An astonishing report of the UK’s ‘FBI’ reveal that “one in 35 men may be child abuser” Up to 7,50,000 men living in Britain may have an interest in having sex with children, the government has been warned. A shocking analysis by the National Crime Agency reveals that about one in 35 adults poses a potential risk of being a child abuser or of seeking out child sex images online.
Horrifically, as many as 2,50,000 men may be sexually attracted to pre-pubescent children – defined as those under 12 – according to the findings disclosed exclusively to the Mail on Sunday. Phil Gormley, the deputy director general of the National Crime Agency, said: “We are starting to get a real sense of the scale.” He also warned that paedophiles are so numerous that ‘the reality is that we are all living not far away from one’.
Among new measures being developed is a system that would alert minors when they are being groomed by men posing as fellow children when talking to them through Facebook or other social networking sites. Software will look for clues in the pattern of behaviour being used by predators before raising the alarm with a ‘traffic light’ system of warnings.
