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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Politics
Anahita Hossein-Pour

Child prostitution convictions of abuse victims to be pardoned under law change

Changes to the law will mean that victims of child sex abuse convicted of child prostitution will have their criminal record wiped (Luciana Guerra/PA) - (PA Archive)

Victims of child sex abuse unjustly convicted of child prostitution instead of being protected will have their criminal record wiped under changes to the law.

New measures included in the Crime and Policing Bill will automatically pardon historic offences of loitering and soliciting prostitution as children, to recognise that victims were criminalised for actions taken under duress.

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