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SEXUAL EXPLOITATION SEXUAL BEHAVIOUR. UNUSUAL CHANGE ExCESSIVE MOBILE
UNHEALTHY
/ INAPPROPRIATE
PHONES USE
IN BEHAVIOUR
Showing sexual behaviour Missing school, avoiding Change of mobile
Child sexual exploitation is a form of that is inappropriate for usual friends, or staying phone or sim card, and
child sexual abuse. It occurs where an their age, sexual interest in out all night or keeping excessive and secretive
individual or group takes advantage adults or children of a very
of an imbalance of power to coerce, different age to their own. away from home. use of mobile phone.
manipulate or deceive a child or young
person under the age of 18 into sexual
activity (a) in exchange for something the
victim needs or wants, and/or (b) for the DRUGS & ALCOHOL NEw RELATIONSHIPS
financial advantage or increased status of POTENTIAL
the perpetrator or facilitator. Sudden use or New relationship with
possession of drugs an older boyfriend or
The victim may have been sexually SIGNS OF
exploited even if the sexual activity and alcohol, usually interest in a new group
appears consensual. supplied by a GROOMING of friends, who appear
Child sexual exploitation does not always new friend. to be particularly nice.
involve physical contact; it can also occur
through the use of technology.
MOOD SwINGS ExCESSIVE GETTING GIFTS
Sudden mood swings INTERNET USE Sudden increase in
including being; Excessive and often unexplained gifts/
SEXUAL GROOMING withdrawn and quiet. internet or laptop at friends or associates.
temperamental,
flowers etc. being
secretive use of the
brought home from
aggressive or very
home or outside.
Sexual Offences involving the
Internet, and ‘grooming’
To combat increasing sexual approaches to
children on-line, there is a new offence of
meeting a child following sexual grooming.
This makes it a crime to befriend a child on the
Internet or by other means and meet or intend
to meet the child with
the intention of
abusing them. The
maximum sentence is
10 years imprisonment.
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