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Police recorded a 40 per cent increase in the number of sex crimes reported to them between 2011 and 2013 - and more than half of the offenders were children. Easy access to online pornography is being blamed for the surge in abuse by the children's charity NSPCC. Among those cases included a 12-year-old girl at a school in Hampshire who was allegedly stripped naked and raped by pupils. The Government faces renewed pressure to reform child safeguarding and introduce mandatory reporting of abuse allegations - currently headteachers don't face a penalty for failing to report abuse.More than 300 rapes reported in schools in three years - including 12-year-old girl who was 'stripped naked and raped by fellow pupils'
- There was a 40 per cent increase in number of sex crimes reported to police
- More than half of offenders between 2011 and 2013 were children in schools
- Easy access to online pornography is being blamed by children's charity
- New pressure on Government by Shadow Home Secretary to take action
More
than 300 rapes were reported in British schools in three years,
including a 12-year-old girl who was ‘stripped naked and raped by fellow
pupils’.
Police
recorded a 40 per cent increase in the number of sex crimes reported to
them between 2011 and 2013 – and more than half of the offenders were
children.
Easy access to online pornography is said to have driven the surge in abuse, according to the children’s charity NSPCC.
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More than 300 rapes were reported in British schools and recorded by police in three years (picture by model)
The
statistics were released by 37 out of 46 UK police forces and showed
children made up over 90 per cent of alleged abuse victims.
A Freedom of Information Act released to The Independent,
revealed that a total of 2,865 sex-crimes were reported in the three
year period and there were an alleged 1,052 in the last year alone.
Among
those cases included a 12-year-old girl at a school in Hampshire who was
allegedly stripped naked and raped by pupils and who, in another
incident, says she was taken into woods near the school and assaulted.
A major police inquiry was launched after claims were made by the pupil and another 15-year-old girl.
Shadow Home Secretary, Yvette Cooper,
is calling on the Government to take action after the evidence revealed a
growing number of sexual violence amongst young people reported to the
police from 2011 to 2013
However,
they were excluded after the school believed they had consented and
broke the rules about having sex on its ground, a tribunal heard.
The
Crown Prosecution Service said in May that there was insufficient
evidence and no charges would be brought against the suspects.
But
the family of the 15-year-old, who is said to have learning
difficulties, claimed that staff failed to alert them to the systematic
sexual abuse of their daughter by other pupils.
Easy access to online pornography is being blamed by children's charity NSPCC (picture by model)
Police
launched a fresh inquiry into the school in March 2013 after the
tribunal — which awarded one of the families £86,000 costs — published
its findings about the way their daughter was treated.
A
spokesman for the school and its headteacher said at the time it
‘deeply regrets’ that it failed its pupils and unreservedly apologised.
At
a school in Manchester, a religious education teacher groped and kissed
a teenage pupil in one-on-one meetings in his classroom. Richard Jones,
57, was arrested after the girl’s family discovered they had started a
secret relationship and found explicit messages on her computer.
He admitted a string of sexual offences when he appeared at court last month and was jailed for eight years.
Claire
Lilley, from the NSPCC, told the Independent: ‘Schools must make sure
they have adequate safeguarding procedures in place and that parents and
teachers are able to recognise warning signs early so they can take
swift action when required.’
But
the National Association of Headteachers has put the surge in reports
down to the fact that alleged victims have become ‘more confident about
making a disclosure’ and believes there is an ‘excellent’ amount of work
being done to make schools a safe environment.
Headteachers
are advised to report allegations of abuse to child-protection experts –
but currently there is no penalty for failing to.
Now
the Government faces renewed pressure from Labour to reform child
safeguarding and introduce mandatory reporting of abuse allegations.
Yvette
Cooper, the shadow Home Secretary, said: ‘These figures are very
disturbing. Schools should be a place of safety for children and young
people. The Government needs to take action given the evidence of
growing sexual violence amongst young people.’
A
Department for Education spokesperson said: ‘There is nothing more
important than protecting children from harm - any allegation of abuse
must be taken very seriously. Schools' safeguarding arrangements are
regularly inspected.’
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