Vulnerable white working class girls are being traded for sex in a ‘routine way’, MP warns

VULNERABLE white working class girls are being traded for sex in a “routine way”, an MP has told ministers.

Tory Lucy Allan addressed fellow politicians amid claims that up to 1,000 children could have been targeted in her constituency.

She said the abuse, in Telford, Shrops, would not have happened had the victims been from different backgrounds.

Calls are growing for a public inquiry into abuse said to involve girls as young as 11 being drugged and raped.

Ms Allan, speaking in a Westminster Hall debate on the rights of victims of crime, said the abuse was similar to previous cases in Rotherham and Oxford.

She said: “These young girls are too often white working class with multiple vulnerabilities and that is why the perpetrators are targeting them.

“How did it happen our young girls are being traded for sex in what is becoming a routine way.”

Ms Allan used today’s debate to again call for a public inquiry

Telford and Wrekin council’s leader also wants the Home Secretary to launch a probe.

Cllr Shaun Davies said: These stories sicken me.”