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| Children for sale: UK's new slave trade |
| 2008-01-27 |
| Oh, the joy of multicultural societies! Hundreds of young children are being sold and "trafficked" to Britain from Africa to be exploited as modern-day slaves, it can be revealed. 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. 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. |
| Posted by:anonymous5089 |
| #7 I'm waiting for the first country to say "Right! That's enough. Immigrants out--the lot of you, right now, with only the clothes on your back. Be gone in 48 hours or you'll find yourselves in jail breaking rocks." When that happens, and it will, the first country will receive a hell of a lot of opprobrium, which they'll cheerfully dismiss. Then they'll be followed by a lot of other countries doing the same thing, just more quietly. |
| Posted by: Jomosing Bluetooth8431 2008-01-27 17:36 |
| #6 very sad. Welfare has become a very negative force in society. Welfare can be justified for a cohesive society, though sustainability and long term social effects are an another matter. When it is being siphoned away by (ever growing, thanks to relentless immigration) minorities that are at best indifferent to the host society, generally speaking, then it becomes very harmful to the collectivity at large, since it is abused and is a great incentive for yet more immigration, which will further taxes the system, until... |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-27 13:47 |
| #5 And William Wilberforce spins in his grave. |
| Posted by: Korora 2008-01-27 12:09 |
| #4 Child slavery, domestic or sexual, is rampant in africa IIUC; this is just the ongoing overlapping of the third world onto the first world, as mass migrations affects populations balance, I'd say. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-27 10:46 |
| #3 very sad. Welfare has become a very negative force in society. |
| Posted by: Punky Omeagum5537 2008-01-27 10:39 |
| #2 Most likely, it's the sub-culture. Like african organized prostitution, obviously, or domestic slavery (of all the cases publicized in France, I seem to recall only one with an actual ethnic frenhc as the abuser), it's almost always people from the old country localised in the West using people fresh from the old country. |
| Posted by: anonymous5089 2008-01-27 10:31 |
| #1 "traffickers' promises of "a better life" for their children" Depending on what they are being 'sold' from, they may have 'a better life' as domestic slaves in London. I wonder though, who is doing the 'buying'; hypocritical liberal British elite? Or members of a sub-culture that has never even pretended to give up acceptance of slavery - or several other practices of the seventh century? |
| Posted by: Glenmore 2008-01-27 09:48 |