A catalogue of failures by police and care agencies to protect teenage girls from being raped and sold for sex is forcing the Government to pursue abusers. This week it will publish a National Action Plan on child sexual exploitation. It is the response to an inquiry that began after The Times exposed a pattern of street-grooming involving groups of men and vulnerable girls in their early teens. Today, we report further harrowing evidence of teenagers lured into sex and of their parents’ desperate attempts to rescue them. All but one of the victims were groomed by Asian men. In one of a series of cases in West Yorkshire, a girl from Leeds was groomed, gang-raped and sold for sex after police and care agencies failed to act on intelligence that might have caught her abusers. She attempted suicide last year by jumping from a motorway bridge. New investigations by The Times have revealed: · A young boy was killed in 2009 after his family home was set on fire by men targeting his 15-year-old sister; · Leeds City Council hired a private detective this year in a bungled attempt to trail a 14-year-old girl who was leaving a children’s home to spend days and nights with men in Bradford; · A mother took her daughter, 14, to New Zealand and left her with relatives in an attempt to help her to break free from men who fed her drugs and raped her; · A father from Keighley, near Bradford, was told that police did not receiv
SKopp''Thousands of protesters seized control of a second city in Kyrgyzstan as President Askar Akayev ordered a probe into allegations that the elections were seriously flawed on Monday.

“The south of the country is under the control of the people. Now we should concentrate on the capital of Bishkek,” said former ambassador to Britain and opposition leader Roza Otunbayeva to ''The Times''. “We have only one demand — that Akayev should resign.”

President Akayev ordered the Central Election Commission and Supreme Court to begin an investigation into allegations that sparked the protests. According to his office, he ordered them "to pay particular attention to those districts where election results provoked extreme public reaction ... and tell people openly who is right and who is wrong."

About 1,000 protesters armed with flammable liquid and clubs seized the governor's building in Osh, Kyrgyzstan's second-largest city. The crowd of protesters, which swelled to 2,000, then seized the regional police and security stations of the city located 300 kilometres south of Bishkek.

"This is a new day in our history," said an opposition official named Omurbek Tekebayev. He also said the opposition would hold elections for alternative executive bodies throughout the country, and that they plan to call the presidential election, which is scheduled for October of 2005, within three months.

According to Tekebayev, the deputy regional police chief has joined the opposition and will be in charge of police under the new regional government.

Elsewhere in the country, at least 17,000 people continued to protest the alleged electoral fraud.

Protesters also seized control of the southern city of Jalal-Abad on Sunday.