Children for sale: UK’s new slave trade
Hundreds of young children are being sold and “trafficked” to Britain from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves, it can be revealed.
# ‘You can have my sons for 5,000 or one for 2,500’
The illicit trade in children - sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph investigation.
Shelter for housing children rescued from traffickers in Nigeria
Telegraph TV: David Harrison goes undercover to reveal the illicit trade in children in a Sunday Telegraph investigation
An undercover reporter was offered several children for sale by their parents in Nigeria: two boys aged three and five for 5,000, or 2,500 for one, and a 10-month-old baby for 2,000. Teenage girls - including some still pregnant - were willing to sell their babies for less than 1,000.
One international trafficker, tracked down in Lagos, claimed to be buying up to 500 children a year.