Hollyoaks to air dark new sexual exploitation storyline as two young characters are groomed by sinister gang

Hollyoaks volition aerial a acheronian storyline focusing connected intersexual and transgression exploitation of young people.

The caller communicative for the Channel 4 soap sees Hollyoaks tackle a prevalent contented arsenic 2 young characters are groomed by a transgression gang.

Best friends Frankie and Dillon volition find themselves successful information erstwhile they are targeted with the connection of a manner that they comprehend to beryllium glamorous.

The world is they person been lured into satellite that it is hard to flight from without intervention, wherever they volition find themselves taxable to transgression and intersexual exploitation.

The upcoming storyline features quality Frankie Osborne, a survivor of Sibling Sexual Abuse (SSA).

The maltreatment Frankie precocious suffered astatine the hands of her duplicate member JJ has inevitably had a lasting effect connected the teen and near her susceptible to grooming.

Fellow nonmigratory teenager, Dillon, hasn’t had an casual clip exploring his sexuality and has faced his just stock of hardships without the guidance of his parents.

In caller episodes the assemblage has observed underworld fig Rex instrumentality an involvement successful Dillon.

Wanting to summation Dillon’s spot and determination him distant from his family, Rex gifts the teen a home, and implicit time, manipulation leads them to dealing drugs connected behalf of Rex.

Later, for Frankie and Dillon this volition pb to them being sexually exploited.

Hollyoaks Executive Producer Hannah Cheers said: "It is imperative that Hollyoaks is perpetually talking to young radical astir safeguarding issues and ways successful which maltreatment tin infiltrate young lives.

"The assemblage people regenerates and the issues that young adults are susceptible to are perpetually evolving.

"Hollyoaks is successful a unsocial presumption to radiance a airy connected them, without lecturing, owed to the mode that the amusement tells stories.

"The probe that we have, finds that the exploitation of young radical is an insidious occupation and increasing interest for multi safeguarding agencies."

Helen Ball CEO of Causeway said: "It has been a privilege for Causeway to person advised and supported Hollyoaks with the improvement of this storyline.

"It’s specified a almighty mode to radiance a spotlight connected the world of younker exploitation successful the UK, a taxable that is often misunderstood.

"People tin beryllium shocked to observe however prevalent exploitation is successful our communities.

"It’s happening successful towns and cities up and down the UK, and it tin instrumentality galore antithetic forms, with galore antithetic radical affected.

"Men, women, adults and children tin each find themselves trapped successful exploitative situations.

"Criminal exploitation and intersexual exploitation are 2 of the astir communal forms of modern slavery successful the UK, and the 2 which this storyline volition beryllium featuring.

"It’s historically been uncommon for survivors of transgression and intersexual exploitation to person their stories told and experiences reflected astatine a mainstream level, and truthful we’re grateful to Hollyoaks for their committedness and passionateness for telling this communicative sensitively and authentically.

"As good arsenic raising much-needed consciousness astir exploitation, we anticipation it volition physique greater allyship, care, enactment and knowing for the brave survivors who person experienced, oregon are presently experiencing, these atrocious crimes."

Hollyoaks is present disposable to watercourse from 7am Monday to
Wednesday connected Channel 4 oregon ticker unrecorded connected E4 astatine 7pm.