Sex trafficking 'monsters' targeting children from care homes in holiday hotspot

Children have been vanishing from care homes in the Canary Islands, sparking an international search as Spanish police target a 'monster' sex trafficking network

Vulnerable children in care homes are being targeted by ‘monster’ sex traffickers in a holiday hotspot popular with British tourists.

Spanish police have been trying to dismantle an international paedophile crime network in the Canary Islands . The huge gang is accused of targeting ‘easy prey’ migrant children, who have been arriving in boats from Africa unaccompanied.

The islands, off the North West coast of Africa , saw almost 30,000 people from Africa arrive on rafts or wooden canoes.

Some of the children who arrive on the Canary Islands are trying to escape forced marriage and genital mutilation, the UN Refugee coun