Contact may be direct or through a child’s school mates, friends, siblings or neighbours. Typically, contact is made by someone regarded by the child as an equal.
Examples of points of contact include:
'When I look back what surprises me is the amount of time it took for the perpetrators to get to her (the daughter). She met them (pimps) in January when she went to watch movies at the shopping mall and in a space of 16 weeks they groomed, controlled and exploited her.'
'Jessica kept coming home with presents, like perfume, jewellery and mobile phones. She wouldn’t tell me where she got them.'
'She was coming in with bruises and love bites all over her too.'
'Within three months, I literally didn’t know her anymore. We’d had a really good relationship but she barely spoke to me now.'