CULTURAL ENRICHMENT: Oxford sex gang: Scores more victims identified. First two paragraphs:

Police in Oxford say 50 to 60 young women have been identified as potential victims of a paedophile ring operating for eight years in the city.

Exactly a year ago, seven men were convicted of raping and trafficking six girls aged from 11 to 15 between 2004 and 2012.

The important information is in the last five paragraphs, however:

Last year’s trial at the Old Bailey heard how six girls were plied with alcohol and drugs before being forced to perform sex acts. Some were beaten and burned.

The court heard how the men – two of east African origin and five of Pakistani origin – identified vulnerable girls for abuse and then groomed each one of them until they were under the control of the gang.

They were then each either abused by the men themselves, given to the men’s friends or offered at a price to others who were not on trial.

(Maybe they should stop letting in foreigners who think that sex slavery is OK.)

The girls were mostly chosen because their unsettled or troubled lives made them easier to manipulate.

After the case concluded, social services and the police apologised for not acting sooner.

What does “unsettled or troubled lives” mean? That they lack fathers to protect them? It seems that social services and police aren’t adequate replacements.