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More than 400 foreign children, many suspected of being trafficked into the sex or drug trade in Britain, have gone missing from local authority care. Children from Africa, Asia and eastern Europe have disappeared from safe houses and foster homes around the country's biggest ports and airports, figures released to the Guardian under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed. The missing children include at least 87 Chinese who disappeared from care around Heathrow and Gatwick and 68 from countries including Afghanistan, Albania and India who went missing from the care of Kent county council, which is responsible for protecting children trafficked through Dover and Folkestone. Anti-trafficking campaigners believe the missing children are often taken from care by their trafficker and then exploited for prostitution, domestic servitude and other illegal activities. Other children escape out of fear of being found by the trafficker and without money or identity papers fall prey to further abuse and exploitation.
“Various families have approached Unicef complaining that they have lost their children in the floods. They are seeking Unicef’s support to trace their kids in various institutions of the country to counter human trafficking, particularly of children,” she said.
MORE THAN 400 children who arrived unaccompanied into the State over the past nine years remain unaccounted for, according to figures compiled by Fine Gael. Party spokesman on immigration Denis Naughten said yesterday that 457 children have gone missing from State care. Of those, only 56 have been traced, leaving the fate of 401 unknown.
Originally posted by Yissachar1
Wow.. If there ever was a need to control our borders then this is the biggest reason of all..
In the papers here in the UK last week there was a story of a young lady who was kept as a slave link.. It defies belief that this type of thing is going on under our noses here in Britain and a bit hard to take..
Maybe closing our borders for a while so we can root these people out and free the innocent is the way to go..
I trully despair
The 23-member child trafficking ring was convicted of buying 49 children from Yunnan province and selling them to people in Hebei province, Xinhua reported Saturday quoting a statement from the Wuhan Railway Transport Intermediate Court. The ring, busted in May and June 2009, sold boys for up to 40,000 yuan ($5,860) and girls for up to 20,000 yuan ($2,930) each between March 2005 and July 2009.
What began in May as a simple shoplifting case gave Missoula investigators the break they needed to unravel a child prostitution ring, which this week netted two Missoula men and led to the identification of at least five teenage victims.
Sawyer is accused of operating the child prostitution ring in his home and in his mother's home. Both are on Chicago's West Side.