Child sex traffickers ‘targeting’ asylum seekers

CHILD sex traffickers are turning up at asylum-seeker accommodation centres, pretending to be aunts, uncles or parents seeking to be reunited with their children.

They are targeting unaccompanied minors — children who have been separated from their families and are seeking asylum here — according to the Children’s Rights Alliance (CRA).

The Minister for Children, Brian Lenihan, has been warned that a lack of identity checks in these centres is being exploited and leaving many vulnerable immigrant children in the hands of traffickers.