Deputy Children Comissioner, Sue Berelowitz told the Commons home affairs committee on Tuesday that thousands, not hundreds, of children in England were being abused and that "it was common" for girls lured out by predators on internet chat rooms to be gang raped by groups of boys.
In her graphic account, which left MPs visibly shocked, she said the sex grooming case in Rochdale, in which Pakistani men were exploiting young white girls, was just part of a much wider picture that involved victims and abusers of all races and cultures.
And she revealed that young people were acting out scenes they saw in online pornography and organising abuse via social networking sites and messaging systems.
"What I am uncovering is that sexual exploitation of children is happening all over the country," she told the cross-party committee.
"As one police officer who was the lead in a very big investigation in a very lovely, leafy, rural part of the country said to me: 'there isn't a town, village or hamlet in which children are not being sexually exploited.
The Commons Home Affairs Committee promised an inquiry into the claims.
You can read more on this story on the BBC News site here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-18422204
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