Protect Vulnerable Children Overseas

We the undersigned call on the Prime Minister to consider the implementing legislation to protect children overseas. We request that the Prime Minister look into ways of tracking British paedophiles who are sex tourists overseas.

As highlighted on the BBC Two programme ‘The Paedophile Hunters’ (Sunday 30 January 2011 10pm) shows how foreigners, such as British citizens, travelled to Cambodia to engage in grooming and sexual exploitation of minors. This is a wide ranging problem and we would like the Prime Minister to enact legislation which would include British agents travelling to overseas locations to gather evidence to convict British citizens on extradition to the United Kingdom.

This new law would set up an agency to investigate paedophiles overseas and to bring them to justice in the United Kingdom. Agents would work on the ground with local people through the British High Commissions and Embassies overseas.

Many children each year are abused by perverted people who do not consider the feelings of the children they abuse. We call upon the Prime Minister to work on legislation to protect the most vulnerable people in the developing world.