Two ex-soldiers were entrusted to look after a 15-year-old in an illegal children’s home, Instead, they plied her with alcohol and abused her (www.thebureauinvestigates.com)

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Audio Podcast Episode: The Crime Agents.

An at-risk teenager was sexually assaulted by care workers at a children’s home where she had been sent by her local council

The home was not registered with Ofsted, which is illegal, and staffed by men with convictions for multiple violence crimes

The girl is among the hundreds of vulnerable children sent to unregistered homes across England every year

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[-] Gentryfried@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

This is a completely different and bigger problem than the culprits being ex army. For starters, they're also ex-convicts, which i think is a more accurate indicator of being a child abuser. But secondly, there's a fucking child rape industry - a "shadpw care system," as the article puts it - and the article just briefly mentions thst like "yeah that's just something thst happens in a socoety like ours, can't be helped"

Maybe the headline should be "Child rapists control the entire framework for looking after vulnerable children"

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