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child sexual exploitation (Remove filter)

Commodities

 

Not old enough to vote or wed

or give consent,

but old enough to be transferred                   

by men to men;

possessed.

 

Not old enough to drive a car,

have overdrafts or credit cards,

but old enough to be exchanged;

expended;

property.

 

Not old enough to live alone or own a home,

but old enough to be deceived;

to be perceived as third and four...

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Rotherhamchild sexual exploitation

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