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Re: EVIL Smugglers Force Refugees Into Despicable Act & Kids Sent to Sex Offenders Ja
EVIL 'Mafia' People Smugglers Force Refugees Into Despicable Act to Pay For Crossings
Children Reaching UK in Small Boats Sent to Jail For Adult Sex Offenders
Channel crossings can cost up to £5,000 and it has seen many poor migrants resorting to driving the dangerous dinghies in order to fund their trip across
BBC 29 AUG 2023
Desperate refugees unable to afford to pay people smugglers for Channel crossings go for free, but only if they agree to drive the danger dinghies.
In a large camp in Dunkirk, that deathly responsibility falls on Africans, we were told. Sudanese teenagers we spoke to told us many of the Africans cannot afford the smugglers’ fees to make crossings, which can cost up to £5,000.
Murtaza Malikzada, 27, from Afghanistan, told us: “The reality is that every single boat is driven by one of the African guys. They don’t have the money and so the smugglers tell them - ‘you can cross, but you’re the driver’.” For those who have paid, many of whom travel with families, they have a better chance of crossing within days of arriving in the camps.
Children Reaching UK in Small Boats Sent to Jail
Vulnerable children who arrive in Britain by small boat are being placed in an adult prison that holds significant numbers of sex offenders.
A growing number of cases have been identified where unaccompanied children, many of whom appear to be trafficked, have been sent to HMP Elmley, Kent, and placed among foreign adult prisoners.
According to the most recent inspection of Elmley, the block where foreign nationals are held also houses sex offenders.
Of 14 unaccompanied children so far identified by staff at Humans For Rights Network as being sent to an adult prison, one is believed to have been 14 when they spent seven months in Elmley.
Most of the cases involve Sudanese or South Sudanese children who travelled to the UK via Libya, with most appearing to have been trafficked or having experienced some form of exploitation.
This weekend there were calls for the Home Office to launch an immediate investigation into the issue and urgently release anyone believed to be a child who is inside an adult jail.
Maddie Harris, of Human Rights Network, said the group had worked with more than 1,000 age-disputed children and that those sent to adult prisons were among the most “profoundly harmed”.
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