英国反奴隶制专员表示，去年有超过7,000名儿童被认定为人口贩卖和现代奴隶制的潜在受害者，这一数字比上一年增长了17%。
More than 7,000 children were identified as potential victims of trafficking and modern slavery last year, a rise of 17%, the UK's anti-slavery commissioner has said.
埃莉诺·莱昂斯（Eleanor Lyons）与儿童慈善机构ECPAT UK在周三发布的一份报告中警告称，在那些同时被怀疑存在儿童虐待和人口贩卖行为的案件中，仅有不到20起案件获得了定罪。
Eleanor Lyons and children's charity ECPAT UK warned in a report published on Wednesday that there were fewer than 20 convictions in cases flagged for both child abuse and trafficking.
该报告指出，2025年共有7,045名儿童被认定为潜在受害者；该报告的发布是为了纪念“反奴隶制周”。
A total of 7,045 children were referred as potential victims in 2025, said the report, released to mark Anti-Slavery Week.
其中超过六成的受害者是英国公民，报告警告称这些数字可能仅仅是冰山一角。研究显示，在英格兰，可能有数千名儿童尚未被识别出来；当地社会服务机构记录了超过30,000起涉及儿童犯罪或性剥削的案例。
More than six in 10 were British nationals, and the report warned the figures may only be the tip of the iceberg. Thousands of other children may be going unidentified, with social services recording more than 30,000 assessment episodes involving criminal or sexual exploitation in England alone, the study said.
根据儿童社会服务部门的数据，截至2025年3月，英格兰共有16,250起涉及儿童犯罪剥削的案例、12,400起涉及儿童性剥削的案例，以及2,250起涉及人口贩卖的案例。
In England, that total included 16,250 assessment episodes involving child criminal exploitation, 12,400 involving child sexual exploitation and a further 2,250 involving trafficking in the year to March 2025, according to figures from children's social services.
报告指出，许多受害者被犯罪团伙利用，被迫参与毒品运输、盗窃等犯罪活动；另一些儿童则遭受性剥削、强迫劳动，或在家庭和工作场所中受到虐待。
The report said many end up in county lines operations, being exploited by criminal gangs to transport drugs, commit theft and other offences, while others face sexual exploitation, forced labour and abuse within homes and workplaces.
莱昂斯女士在接受Sky News采访时称，这些儿童正遭到犯罪团伙的性剥削，其中大多数是英国男孩。
Ms Lyons told Sky News that youngsters are being "sexually exploited by criminal gangs or held in county lines groups", and the majority are British boys.
报告提醒人们：这些数据并不能直接与其他人口贩卖相关的数据进行比较（因为可能包括对同一儿童的多次评估）。
The report cautions that the figures are not directly comparable with trafficking referrals and may include repeat assessments of the same child.
尽管相关案件的举报数量急剧增加，但报告指出，在那些同时被怀疑存在现代奴隶制、人口贩卖和儿童虐待行为的案件中，仅有17起案件获得了定罪（而2024年这一数字为38起）。报告引用了英国皇家检察署的数据作为依据。
But, despite the alarming rise in referrals, there were only 17 convictions in cases flagged as involving both modern slavery or trafficking and child abuse, down from 38 in 2024, the report claims, quoting analysis of Crown Prosecution Service data. Ms Lyons told The News Hour With Mark Austin the overall effect is "children across the country being robbed of their childhood".
莱昂斯女士在接受《The News Hour With Mark Austin》节目采访时强调：“这实际上意味着全国各地的儿童都被剥夺了他们的童年。”
When children are trafficked and exploited, they are being "sexually exploited by criminal gangs or held in county lines groups, forced to deal drugs right across the country.
“当儿童遭到人口贩卖和剥削时，他们要么被犯罪团伙用于性交易，要么被关押在某些组织中，被迫在全国范围内从事毒品交易。令人遗憾的是，这类案件的数量每年都在增加，越来越多的英国儿童正在遭受伤害，”她说。来自 Sky News 的更多报道：特朗普发布了老虎袭击的视频；英国预计将遭遇每小时 70 英里的强风。
And sadly, we're seeing that number rise every single year, with more and more British kids being exploited and harmed", she said. More from Sky News:
莱昂斯女士表示，她曾与那些从八岁就开始遭受剥削的儿童交谈过，并指出：“每年被剥削的儿童年龄越来越小。”
Trump posts video of fatal tiger attack 70mph winds forecast for UK Ms Lyons said she has "spoken to children who are exploited from the age of eight", and "every year we're seeing the age get younger and younger of children who are being exploited".
统计数据显示，虽然受害者来自不同国籍，但其中大多数是英国男孩。然而，犯罪分子的手段越来越残忍，他们的年龄也越来越小；他们甚至会瞄准小学生，通过送礼物或邀请他们吃午饭来接近这些孩子，第二天便以威胁或暴力手段强迫他们为犯罪团伙效力。
"The statistics and the figures show that whilst there are children of all nationalities, the majority are British boys." Perpetrators, though, are becoming "more ruthless, going younger and younger and even targeting children in primary schools, grooming them, offering them maybe gifts or offering to buy them lunch, and then following up the next day with threats, with violence, and forcing them to carry out criminal acts on the gang's behalf".
她呼吁政府采取措施，防止英国儿童受到伤害，具体包括制定全国性的儿童保护策略、加强早期识别和预防工作，以及提升警方的调查和起诉能力。Sky News 已联系英国内政部寻求对此事的评论。
She called on ministers to do more to prevent harm happening to children across the UK, including establishing a national child exploitation strategy, improving early identification and prevention, and strengthening police investigations and prosecutions. Sky News has approached the Home Office for comment.