Child Sexual Exploitation (CSE)
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3. Statistics
3.4. UK Human Trafficking Centre
Due to the close link between sexual exploitation and human trafficking it's important to understand the scale of this illegal activity.
The UK Human Trafficking Centre (UKHTC) report (2013) found 549 cases of human trafficking were children (310 were female, 208 were male, 31 gender was unknown).
The ages of the victims (reported in 2012):
- 70 were aged up to nine years old
- 113 were aged between 10 and 15 years
- 142 were aged between 16 and 17 years
- 96 were children when the exploitation commenced but had since become adults
- 128 were recorded as a child with no further information relating to their age provided.