Coronavirus: Lockdown child sexual abuse 'hidden by under-reporting' - BBC Newsnight

A significant drop in the number of child sexual abuse cases reported to police during lockdown masks the true extent of what's happened to vulnerable children, police chiefs say. Subscribe to our channel here: goo.gl/31Q53F
National Police Chiefs Council data shows reports in England and Wales fell by 25% between April and August, compared with the same period in 2019.
But officers told BBC Newsnight this does not represent the true picture.
And senior officers are warning child protection referrals will now rise.
Chief Constable Simon Bailey said he suspected the 25% fall was "a false and misleading picture" of what children may have experienced during those months.
UK Editor Katie Razzall reports.
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[@Themis33]

If a child ever shows any hesitation to go anywhere, a nursery, a child minders or to a friends house or family friends etc, LISTEN to them. They might not be able to vocalise what has been happening to them but the fear they show will be the tell tale sign. If everyone safeguards children we can save so many from this horrendous life changing crime.

[@vanessab3391]

Yeah, well, I wish people would actually care!

[@Eaglekg-jx4ec]

Child abusers are disgusting. They should be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

[@redfegxalo]

The BBC know all about under-reporting on a subject like this.

[@veronicachristopher9321]

I got a 9 ACE score. I got into a lot of bullshit in my teens & 20s so, yea, it affects children for a lifetime. Parents need to sort themselves out before procreating.

[@karate4348]

could not agree more... it takes 3 seconds for a man to make a baby... and if he and/or the child is not welcome the life started can be starting a life of agony and more agony grown from it... I am in my 60's and still suffer from what happened when I was a baby! It is agony. I have tried to be a good person and knew not to have children I could not provide a healthy whole community and environment for.

[@kyshtakyshta3248]

im 9 too its a hard life to heal this stuff

[@m.a.j593]

ill be lying if i tell u that i know how you feel , but i really wish you a good life and an improvement in all aspects of your life, just remember that no one can choose his/ her family before birth, and whatever happened to you at a younger age wasnt your fault.

[@liapat814]

Yeah it really messes our lives up

[@johnathanpearson3203]

When will newsnight also stand up for the grooming gang report to be released in full?

[@sneedemfeedem3792]

The BBC is the biggest hive of paedophiles in the world. They should be reporting on themselves.

[@johnathanpearson3203]

@S R again. The grooming gang report needs to be released in full. Why not?

[@TheSuicune7]

This is why I stood against lockdowns. I was supportive of all other measures, but having been in an abusive household growing up, I knew what these children were being sentenced to

[@kimbrown6307]

It's just a pity the didn't help little Arthur and turned a blind eye .He was let down by everyone .

[@paxundpeace9970]

Underreported like covid cases Positivity rate is on the rise.

[@kra776jisnik]

Testing kits for covid are from 2016/17/18/19 , no novel virus.

[@pinkcandy7772]

Hated my childhood 😓😓😓😓

[@graheshwarsingh8441]

What's actually happened may you explain further!?

[@lucindabundy1887]

This is so horrible

[@lacastesantosnoelmhickeepa1862]

Proverbs 16:3-7 Commit to the Lord whatever you do, and he will establish your plans. The Lord works out everything to its proper end - even the wicked for a day of disaster. The Lord detests all the proud of heart. Be sure of this: They will not go unpunished. Through love and faithfulness sin is atoned for; through the fear of the Lord evil is avoided. When the Lord takes pleasure in anyone’s way, he causes their enemies to make peace with them.

[@lacastesantosnoelmhickeepa1862]

Job 39:13 The wings of the ostrich flap joyfully.. she lays her eggs on the ground, unmindful that a foot may crush them, that some wild animal may trample them. She treats her young harshly, as if they were not hers; .. for God did not endow her with wisdom or give her a share of good sense. Yet when she spreads her feathers to run, she laughs at horse and rider.

[@earlybirdflights9884]

They take your child away and then they stick them in a carehome with teenagers that smoke cannabis etc. something got to change its not right.

[@Mr_Gordondead]

So technically your life is fucked if it happens

[@earlybirdflights9884]

@@Mr_Gordondead if a care home moves in next to your house your fucked and if they take your child your fucked. over 18 years of hell and still can't get rid of the place.

[@whatsinaname11]

The whole system is broken. But children should not be left in abusive households.

[@mozone180]

British Social services/ police child trafficking ring

[@marypoole6064]

toxic graphene oxide in saline solution//Masks//PCR Tests etc. by LaQuinta Columna !!!

[@kyshtakyshta3248]

I Scored a 9 on The ACE test, shortens your life by 20 years watch a Ted talk nadine Harris on trauma...........#survivor

[@tyamada21]

I highly recommend a new autobiography relating to child sexual abuse, among other things, titled 'Saved by the Light of the Buddha Within'

[@floaresalagianu225]

My daughter was sexually abused from her father she was only 13 I didn’t tell nobody because I was afraid he will kill me I wonder if I can do something now Put him in Jail for the rest of his life

[@laimalisovska6485]

Every day he walks is a day a child is in danger! It’s your duty to take him off the streets by any means necessary!

[@whatsinaname11]

You've let your child down by not reporting it.

[@cindz4618]

Outside pressures on parents are NO excuse. Already giving them a justification with that comment.

[@scottlynn9714]

Lets microchip everybody! Maybe then this wont happen

[@MassiveMouniFlaps]

In the valley

[@joey882286]

For anti shadow ban purposes, please translate this in Haitian Creole. With Google Translate. (Si yon moun mande ou pou foto eksplisit nan ou, ou voye yo yon foto nan gofr ble (kalite a terib). Sa depann de ou. Mwen parye yo pa pral deranje ou dezyèm fwa a alantou.) Good idea?

[@khaitaliaferro6240]

WORLD DESTRUCTION. -DR. KATZMANN

[@rosemariebarrientos]

People need to think before reproducing 😥

[@Great_WesternTVFan]

Some people reproduce on purpose just to hurt their children.

[@johnsweda2999]

No you shouldn't be supervising your children 24-hours a day that is the problem with Society today. I would go out on my bike when I was 6 years old down the park 2 miles away on my own so did other kids, It is unhealthy this mollycoddling putting fear into childrens mine's stop it!! for no apparent reason. England falling apart. Kids bruise themselves all the time that is the nature of being a child, what your doing is causing problems for the child and the family and community at large in most cases. Disgusting of society to behaving this way. That information film cartoon is discussed as well stereotyping now. No smoking cannabis around your children is not a risk that is so stupid and naive to think so safer than smoking tobacco or Vaping

[@marypoole6064]

time to Unschool//time to go back to free range children//free range parents/Not New Age Helicoptor Parents promoted by The New Age Occult/Cult//

[@israeldiegoriveragenius2th164]

End the licence fee, it is an evil propaganda tax.

[@finz9982]

“If a man finds a young woman who is a virgin, who is not betrothed, and he seizes her and lies with her, and they are found out, then the man who lay with her shall give to the young woman’s father fifty shekels of silver, and she shall be his wife because he has humbled her; he shall not be permitted to divorce her all his days” (Deuteronomy 22:28-29)

[@elveheim]

Jj

[@john-lenin]

How convenient you’re spreading the Fascists’ propaganda for them.