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Police and social services miss many children and young people who are exploited in the sex trade, reports Sweden’s Radio Ekot with reference to a new report from the Crime Prevention Council (Brå).
The report is based on interviews with people in the legal system and social services, as well as an examination of 69 reports of exploitation of children for sexual posing, where the majority of the victims were between 15 and 17 years old.
In order to rectify the shortcomings, more comprehensive preventive and outreach work is required, the authority believes.
– It’s about the fact that you can’t expect children who are exposed to talk, so it’s very important that the police and social services work actively with these issues, says Lina Fjelkegård, project manager at Brå, to the radio.
There is a special method developed to find victims of crime in this group. But according to Ekot’s review, this is only used in two of the country’s seven police regions. According to Björn Sellström, crime commissioner at the police’s National Operative Department (NOA), this has to do with the fact that the method is resource-intensive.