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Sex crimes against children rocket 75%

Home Office figures recorded 36,855 child sex offences in the year to September 2015. In the past 4 years child sex offences have increased by 75% (in England and Wales). Telford and Wrekin are the areas with the highest rates of child sex crimes, according to the data. The article (http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/sex-crimes-against-children-rocket-7243478#rlabs=3%20rt$category%20p$5) consists of multiple statistics which show which areas have the highest rate of child sex crimes.

This article stood out to me, as I'm sure it did to lots of other people. It stood out simply because of the large numbers of child sex offences. After reading this I found it very disturbing and disgusting that people would do such things, and these numbers are just for England and Wales; don't even want to know what they would be for the rest of the world. I think this article was written to raise awareness about this very serious issue to hopefully try and prevent it somehow.