根据盖蒂图片社的报道，伯明翰市有超过140名儿童面临性剥削的风险或正在遭受性剥削。
2026年9月30日，伯明翰市向市议会提交的一份报告显示，当地正在进行多达98起针对儿童性剥削的调查，其中6起案件涉及犯罪团伙。
Getty Images More than 140 children are known to be at risk of, or experiencing CSE in the city Caroline Gall West Midlands 30 September 2026 Up to 98 child sexual exploitation investigations are under way in Birmingham, with six believed to involve groups, a report to the city council has revealed.
这些数据来自独立的伯明翰儿童信托组织（Birmingham Children’s Trust），揭示了当地政府在保护儿童安全方面所面临的挑战。
The figures, from the independent Birmingham Children's Trust, paint a picture of what authorities are facing in trying to keep children safe in the city.
全国性的针对儿童性虐待问题的调查机构宣布将扩大调查范围，将伯明翰和威尔士纳入调查范围。该调查将重点关注受害者的经历、儿童性剥削的普遍程度以及公众的关切。
The national inquiry into child sexual abuse by grooming gangs has announced it will be expanded to include Birmingham and Wales It will look at victim and survivor experience, the prevalence of child sexual exploitation and public concern.
伯明翰雅德利选区的工党议员杰西·菲利普斯（Jess Phillips）表示，她希望对该市的相关问题展开调查，并强调“必须做出改变”。
Jess Phillips, Labour MP for Birmingham Yardley and former safeguarding minister said she wanted an investigation in the city, adding that "changes have to happen".
伯明翰市的保守党人也对这一消息表示支持，他们认为应该致力于为受害者“查明真相、伸张正义”。
The news has also been welcomed by Conservatives in the city, who said it needed to focus on "getting truth and justice" for those affected.
市议会获悉，今年1月至6月期间，该市共记录了99起儿童性剥削案件，而2025年同期这一数字为150起。
Councillors in Birmingham heard on Wednesday that between January and June this year, 99 child sexual exploitation (CSE) crimes were recorded in the city, compared with 150 during the same period in 2025.
独立机构伯明翰儿童信托组织还指出，有超过140名儿童处于性剥削的风险之中或已经遭受了性剥削。
The figures from the independent Birmingham Children's Trust stated more than 140 children were known to be at risk of, or experiencing CSE.
杰西·菲利普斯于今年5月辞去了她在基尔·斯塔默（Keir Starmer）内阁中担任的儿童保护部长的职务。据报道，处于风险中的儿童主要是13至17岁的青少年，其中90.6%的受害者为女孩；犯罪者多为男性，且大多数犯罪者的年龄在30至49岁之间。
PA Media Jess Phillips resigned from her position in Sir Keir Starmer's cabinet as safeguarding minister in May Those at risk were older adolescents, aged between 13 and 17, with girls accounting for 90.6% of victims. Offenders were mainly males, with those convicted most often aged 30 and 49 years of age.
菲利普斯表示，她最近几个月一直在与负责调查儿童性虐待问题的独立机构保持联系，并要求将该机构的工作范围扩展到伯明翰市。她也在周三得知这一决定已经得到确认。
Phillips said she had been liaising with the Statutory Independent Inquiry into Grooming Gangs in recent months and had requested it include Birmingham - she said she was informed on Wednesday that that would be the case.
她说，她很高兴团队听取了她和内政大臣沙巴娜·马哈茂德（Shabana Mahmood）的意见；因为多年来，关于这个问题的大部分关注都集中在英格兰北部。“我认为，调查应该覆盖大城市，而不仅仅是小城镇，”她说。
She said she was pleased the team had listened to calls from her and Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood, also a Birmingham MP, as "so much of the attention over the years on this particular issue" had been in the north of England. "I think it's important for the inquiry to go to big cities, not just the towns," she said.
她指出，相关案件的统计数据可能被低估了。虽然她不清楚伯明翰问题的实际严重程度，但她对“仅98起案件正在接受调查”这一数字表示怀疑。
Case numbers 'underestimated' But while she did not know the scale of the problem in Birmingham, she questioned whether 98 live investigations was a true reflection.
“在我还在内政部任职期间，曾开展过一项行动，要求警方重新审查所有历史档案，以发现新的案件，”她说。
"While I was still at the Home Office, there was an operation undertaken to make police forces look back at all of their historic files, to look for new cases," she said.
“现在我毫不怀疑：西米德兰兹地区肯定发现了许多应该被重新调查的历史案件——我认为98这个数字其实是被低估的。”
"Now, I have absolutely no doubt that the West Midlands found many historic cases that they would be seeking where possible and where the evidence allowed that for those to be reopened - I imagine 98 would be an underestimate."
调查组周三表示，如果发现有必要，他们可以将调查范围扩大到整个西米德兰兹地区。
The inquiry said on Wednesday it could expand its investigation to the wider West Midlands if evidence emerged that it was necessary.
在报告中，儿童保护机构（Children’s Trust）详细介绍了该地区为保护儿童所采取的各项措施，包括多部门联合行动为受性虐待（CSE）影响的儿童和家庭提供支持、对儿童进行监测，以及为家长和监护人提供帮助。
In its report, the Children's Trust set out the several strands of protection and enforcement that was undertaken in the city, including multi-agency teams providing support for children and families affected by CSE, monitoring children and supporting parents and carers.
该机构称，西米德兰兹警方通过这些努力成功起诉了相关犯罪者，并保护了许多儿童；警方还牵头成立了专门小组，负责处理与儿童住所及便利店相关的性虐待问题（这些场所往往是犯罪组织的目标）。
West Midlands Police operations had led to successful prosecutions and safeguarded children, the trust said, with the force jointly leading a group looking at any CSE issues in relation to children's homes as well as convenience stores targeted by organised crime groups.
市议会中的保守党成员表示，此次调查的目的是“为那些受到侵害的儿童讨回公道，确保类似事件不再发生”。
The Conservative group on the city council, said the inquiry had to be about "getting truth and justice for the children who were failed and ensuring that those failures can never be repeated".
“长期以来，关于伯明翰发生的事件、相关部门的知情情况、受害者的遭遇，以及是否错过了保护弱势儿童的机会，都存在许多未得到解答的问题，”议员罗伯特·奥尔登（Robert Alden）说。
"For too long there have been unanswered questions about what happened in Birmingham, what authorities knew, how victims were treated and whether opportunities to protect vulnerable children were missed," councillor Robert Alden said.