UK Lost 145 Child Asylum Seekers Just Last Year

New reports have now shown that 145 children have just gone missing without a trace from local authority care homes over the last year. Most of the kids that are missing were juvenile asylum seekers who had arrived in the UK alone without any parents.

Most reports suggest that the pattern of disappearances suggest that these children were victims of trafficking operations. This has been a big problem in the UK for many years now. A lot of these children will be used for forced marriages, domestic servitude, or even for sexual practices in the UK. The truth of the matter is that these young kids, often girls, get sold into sex trafficking. Reports say that the young girls bring in a higher price.

However, the UK has also been fighting hard against forced marriages as well. These forced marriages are normally the result of someone who wants to gain the right to stay in the UK by way of a marriage. Sometimes however, these kids are often sent to other areas of the world and forced to marry people they have never met before.

The organization, which submitted freedom of information requests to more than 200 councils for the survey, have identified 145 kids who have left their care homes. Since they left without permission, they can no longer be contacted.

Of the kids that have disappeared, 90 percent of them were categorized as unaccompanied asylum seeking children. About ten percent of these kids were under the age of 14. Most of their nationalities were not recorded, but many of the councils did say they lost track of many from China and Afghanistan.