Government cuts to blame for rise in missing registered sex offenders, Sara Payne says


The mother of murdered schoolgirl Sarah Payne has blamed Government cuts for the sharp
rise in registered sex offenders going missing across Britain.

Sara Payne, whose eight-year-old daughter was killed in 2000 by a convicted paedophile,
said the country has become "a sex offender's playground" following years of austerity measures.

Her remarks come after Sky News revealed UK police forces have lost track of 485
egistered sex offenders including rapists and paedophiles - a 22% rise on March 2015.

Dr Payne, who works with The Phoenix Post campaign group for victims of paedophiles,
told Sky News: "The Government have used the austerity argument to virtually deconstruct
child protection in this country, until it is exactly what you see before you - a sex offender's
playground, protected by an anti-victim prejudice-groomed government, unwittingly force-funded
by good and decent taxpayers.

"For the sake of the children, it's long past time that we change the way this works."

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Sarah Payne was murdered aged eight
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Sarah Payne was aged eight when she was murdered in 2000
A Ministry of Justice report published last October showed there were a total of 55,236
registered sex offenders living in England and Wales in 2016/17.

They are subject to Multi-Agency Public Protection Arrangements (Mappas), where authorities
manage the risk posed by certain sexual and violent criminals living in the community.

Peter Kirkham, a former detective chief inspector with the Metropolitan Police, said cuts to
forces and the probation service meant it had become more difficult to monitor registered sex offenders.

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