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FOIA 2000 Request - Child Sex Offences by Offender Nationality

Case reference FOI2026/00117

Received 18 January 2026

Published 10 February 2026

Request

Freedom of Information Act 2000 - Request for Information Please consider this email a request under the provisions of the FOIA. I am conducting independent research into the public perception of the nationalities of suspects of Child Sexual Abuse. This request feeds into this research. The request (1) The number of suspects of relevant* child sexual offences sorted by nationality, including 'Unknown' if not linked. (2) The number of suspects of relevant* child sexual offences sorted by ethnicity, including 'Unknown' if not linked. *Relevant are any of the following offences: 017/14      Assault on a male child under 13 by penetration 017/16      Sexual assault on a male child under 13 019/07      Rape of a female aged under 16 019/09      Rape of a male aged under 16 019/11      Attempted rape of a female aged under 16 019/13      Attempted rape of a male aged under 16 019/16      Rape of a female child under 13 by a male 019/17      Rape of a male child under 13 by a male 019/18      Attempted rape of a female child under 13 by a male 019/19      Attempted rape of a male child under 13 by a male 020/04      Assault of a female child under 13 by penetration 020/06      Sexual assault of a female child under 13 You may consider other offences, or less offences. If that is so, please specify that in your response to ensure the figures can be reported on correctly. For nationality, if you're not able to export per individual nationality, you could perhaps consider searching for the 'British' nationality, then providing the figure for 'British', 'Non-british' and 'Unknown'. If you have any questions or require clarification, please do let me know. Desired Format Please return the data in table format, ideally copied in plain text onto the body of an email. Please avoid attachments if you can.

Response

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Documents

• 26-00117.xlsx (13.8 KB)

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