Trafficked children 'go missing'

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Children trafficked into the UK are being taken from local authority care to work as prostitutes or as child labour, a charity has warned.
The United Nations children's charity, Unicef, told the BBC more than half of those smuggled into Britain go missing.
It says criminal gangs are taking young people from care for exploitation and called on ministers to provide safe houses to protect them from abusers.
The government says it is committed to tackling child trafficking.
The UK's only secure accommodation designed to protect trafficked children closed four years ago.
Recent research showed that out of hundreds of young people brought into this country against their will, more than half had disappeared.
"Fear, deprivation, hunger, being beaten, being sexually abused... we suspect there are thousands," said David Bull, executive director of Unicef UK.
"For a child to be brought to the UK for purposes of exploitation is the most horrendous experience imaginable."
Many are intercepted by the authorities and taken into care, he said.
But he added: "Of the hundreds that have been identified, a majority disappear... into gross exploitation."