Paedophiles are increasingly targeting babies and children too young to speak in an orchestrated strategy to avoid being caught, police have revealed.The disturbing revelation came as Scotland Yard warned that the threat facing society from child abuse is far graver than previously assumed, with ‘huge’ numbers of paedophiles scouring the internet for potential victims.As the furore over the arrival of paedophile Gary Glitter rumbled on last night, detectives from Britain’s Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre (CEOP) revealed that they were uncovering growing evidence that paedophiles were concentrating on ‘pre-verbal’ victims.CEOP spokesman Vicky Gillings said officers were finding an increasing number of images, many showing the raping of babies, involving youngsters whose inability to describe their abuse made them attractive to paedophiles.
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Babies are new target, Met warns as paedophile threat spirals
Children too young to speak are increasingly being targeted by sex offenders – and members of the professions are among those trawling the net for images. In the week Gary Glitter returns, police say the scale of the threat is ‘massive’