Fagin type criminals use children like Oliver Twist to shoplift and beg in Britain

This is the 21st century but, even now, in Britain, there exists characters like Fagin and Oliver Twist created by Charles Dickens nearly 200-years back. Adults are exploiting children and using them to pick pockets, shoplift and beg. This has been revealed by Kevin Hyland, the anti-slavery commissioner. He has said that youngsters were being used for criminal operations in UK cities when they should be at school.
This has been reported in dailymail.co.uk dated 1 June 2015.

Kevin Hyland, the former Metropolitan Police detective, had been appointed in November. He has indicated that the number of convictions for slavery offences was ‘nowhere near good enough’. In his words, slavery can involve sexual exploitation, forced labor, domestic servitude or forced criminality.
In 2014, there were 151 convictions for slavery-related offences and the worrying factor is that the numbers of investigations are not high. Roma children are being used as thieves by ‘Fagin’-style masters.
Since the conviction rates are low, many opt for such actions to mint money. For example – in sexual exploitation, someone can make a million pounds a year out of 10 women. Girls from Eastern Europe – aged 15 to 25 – are being brought to Britain and forced into prostitution, benefit fraud or sham weddings to Asian men who are seeking a right to remain in the UK.
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