I was betrothed to a grown man when I was eight and locked in my room until I accepted. Social workers' fear of being called racist is failing young victims but we can no longer shy away from race and religion, says DAME JASVINGER SANGHERA ⊖⊖

The idea of an eight-year-old girl being forced down the aisle to marry a man three times her age by her own parents seems unimaginable in a modern Britain.