What a huge surprise this is.

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www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-61311046

Abusive men are trying to exploit refugees.

When will the powers that be realise that abusive men will exploit any 'loophole' to reach their victims?

Well it has been widely predicted (including on MN threads) that the next big scandal will be abuse of refugees. But often poo-poohed as misplaced concern because hosts would be DBS checked.

People urgently needed places to go and to feel safe. Not to go fom frying pan to fire

On women's hour a today a woman said:
Predators will take any route to access victims
Predators will exploit any identity to access victims
Most predators are men
Men should not be allowed access to vulnerable women
Safeguarding is essential

No shit Sherlock. I mean how fucking stupid do you have to be to see this issue immediately. How stupid do you have to be to see that no men can be given access to women without safe checks?

Just us old women on MN pearl clutching again.

Yes, the old 'Don't worry they'll be DBS checked' argument. FFS, all that means is that they have not been caught out before. One of the most abusive, controlling, violent men I've every had the misfortune of knowing would have been able to get a clean DBS check because he managed to manipulate the women he abused in to thinking that they were partly to blame so they never reported his behaviour.

I genuinely can't believe that anyone could possibly NOT have foreseen this as a problem.

The first time I saw on the news about Ukrainian refugees coming to live in people's houses it was just after a long news article about traffickers taking advantage of some housing associations by housing very vulnerable adults and then forcing them into slavery, sexual abuse and drug trafficking.

I can remember thinking how do they not join up the dots? How many of these people will be abusing these opportunities. Clearly the answer is lots.

Well, it's because men wouldn't pretend to be something they're not, would they?

It's completely impossible to imagine a man might go through all the rigamarole of some paperwork, just to be able to abuse vulnerable women.

Who could have predicted that?

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Unfortunately, nobody listens to women. We know nothing. Least of all about predatory men. Collective sigh.