“Degrading and destructive” child sexual abuse was missed by the Met Police and Tower Hamlets council, a landmark report has found.<br /> <br />Local authorities and law enforcement failed to identify the sexual exploitation of children by organised networks, the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) has found.<br /> <br />Officials wrongly believed rates of abuse were falling, while the issue became “more of a hidden problem” and “increasingly underreported” across England and Wales, it found.<br /><br />Interview with John O'Brien, secretary to the IICSA
