Rapists and child abusers are moving freely around Europe because just six out of the 28 member nations have sexual activity offender registers.

The case of Slovakian sex activity offender Eduard Peticky, who was jailed for life this month for abusing iii children in the UK, has led to calls for an EU-broad register of offenders.

Peticky, 48, was convicted of gang rape in his home state, only moved to the UK just days afterward being released from prison.

Earlier this month Judge Peter Kelson QC complained that it had taken 13 months to detect out that Peticky was a "dangerous echo offender" earlier sentencing him.

The NSPCC said there was a "gaping pigsty" in child protection.

A spokesman said: "This could put children at serious chance of harm. United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland agencies inform other countries when known sex offenders travel abroad. It should work in reverse."

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The British authorities were unaware of Peticky's convictions when he moved to Rotherham, where he driveling the children, 1 of them just three years old.

There were no warning flags as – unlike the UK, Cyprus, Ireland, Austria, Malta and French republic – Slovakia has no sex offender register.

Every bit of March 2014, there were 46,102 people on the UK register and police tin apply for an order to stop those listed going abroad.

Portugal and Espana are setting up similar registers, merely an Eu-wide scheme is supported past many campaigners, including Kate McCann, female parent of missing Madeleine.

Labour Shadow Dwelling Secretarial assistant Yvette Cooper said: "European countries need to piece of work together to protect the public."

If there had been an Eu register government here would have seen that Peticky had been sentenced to 13 years for gang rape, gross indecency with a child, robbery and theft in Slovakia.

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When he got out of jail in 2008 he immediately left Slovakia and moved to the UK. The Mirror visited his old home on the outskirts of Michalovce in eastern Slovakia and were told how Peticky and 150 neighbours had gone to U.k. for a better life.

The life they were escaping was in a squalid camp, shared by ii,000 Roma gypsies. There were piles of wing-infested rubbish everywhere, tots beingness bathed in the street and a gang of kids, no older than thirteen, speeding around in a automobile.

Nosotros tracked down Peticky'southward step-daughter, who had returned at that place after living in England and was in denial near his horrible crimes.

Michaela Balogova, a 19-year-one-time mum, said: "He wouldn't do what they say he has washed. He had some crimes hither just not against children. They were from robberies."

She said her mum Maria and Peticky moved to England every bit he could non get a job.

She said: "We knew there is a possibility to get benefits in England. Our friends, neighbours and other people who had gone in that location told us."

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She was 13 when her parents moved abroad and left her with a grandmother.

Michaela said: "She couldn't manage then I was put in a children's abode."

She joined her mum and Peticky in Rotherham when she was 17 and expecting a baby conceived in the Slovakian children'due south home.

But Michaela said the motion turned into a nightmare when her child was taken from her by British social services at three weeks sometime.

Michaela, now meaning with her second kid, was reunited with her son but afterwards returning to Slovakia.

She said: "I won't go back in that location at present, they take babies away. Houses are better there, a lot of things are better in England but the main trouble is they take children."

Co-ordinate to figures in Slovakia, UK authorities took 121 children away from their citizens in 2014.

Merely Peticky's niece Matilda still dreams of going to the United kingdom.

She said: "They have beautiful country and a good queen. Thanks to her, all immigrants have places to alive."