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A dating app popular with the LGBTQ+ community has been linked to dozens of sex abuse cases including children under the age of 13.

Four young boys, including two aged under 13, were allegedly raped by men they met on Grindr, an app which calls itself a ‘safe space’ for the community.

In the first 10 months of last year, UK police received at least 13 reports of serious sexual offences against children, including rape, where Grindr was the first point of contact between the suspect and victim.

And these figures, revealed during an i investigation, may not provide the full picture as several police forces did not provide data due to time constraints.

Grindr says it is an 18+ app, but these findings have raised concerns that children can bypass its age checks, which are failing to stop child sexual abuse.

Dozens of underage boys have gained access to the app and, while hoping to speak with other gay teenagers, instead have allegedly been sexually abused by older men.

Data obtained following a series of Freedom of Information requests shows that since 2019, UK police forces have received at least 130 reports of sexual offences allegedly perpetrated against minors where Grindr was listed as playing a key role, including nearly 40 reports of rape and multiple reports of children being paid for sex.

Since 2019, more than 100 additional sexual offences reportedly perpetrated against children have also been linked to Grindr, but the platform’s involvement in these offences is not fully known, partly as some forces refused to provide further clarity due to data protection laws.

The revelations have led to MPs, police and campaigners demanding urgent action to safeguard young people.

Jess Phillips, minister for safeguarding and violence against women and girls, said: ‘These claims are incredibly concerning.

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Even when involved with Calvin as a preadolescent and adolescent, and throughout college and a period in the armed services, Owen maintained and acted on the interest in boys and men he had evinced before meeting Calvin.

He had had multiple abuse experiences as a child: His father and brother had been physically abusive. Finally, though, he sputtered that this man had been tender, that he had known how to make Ramon feel good, that the sex had been sensuous and arousing, and that he never felt pain, even when he had bled. Quinn was abused by his grandfather starting as a preschooler; he grew up to be a heterosexual man who had severe problems with self-esteem and depression.

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Groth, A. N., and Birnbaum, H. (1979). (These early abuse experiences set the stage for a prolonged sexually abusive relationship with the pastor of a religious cult when Greg was a young adult).

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Bruckner, D. F., and Johnson, P. E. (1987, February). This self concept can be thought of as achieved through disidentifying with qualities that signify being female (see Greenson, 1966, 1968; Stoller, 1968, 1985; Fast, 1984; Weeks, 1985; and Pollack, 1990, 1995, 1998). Did the father himself have secret homosexual wishes as represented by the fantasy that he had been a girl when he was young?

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Simari, C. G., and Baskin, D. (1982). His rape trauma was therefore particularly profound, since it also served as his introduction to even imagining overt sexuality with men.

School officials knew of the rapes, but never punished the assailants.

These may include social isolation, nonintimate relationships, sexual dysfunction, dissociative episodes, secrecy, shame, emotional and behavioral constriction, suicidality, inability to control rage, and compulsive behaviors like drug addiction, alcoholism, gambling, overeating, and sexual compulsivity. He was almost totally unable to be physically vulnerable, even with men he knew well and cared about, and had at times thrown lovers across the room during sex if he momentarily felt overpowered by them.