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Survivors of Nepal earthquake 'being sold as child slaves in UK'

Children are said to be exchanging hands for as little as €6,500.

CHILD SURVIVORS OF the Nepal earthquake are being sold as slaves in the UK, according to a report by The Sun.

An undercover investigation found that boys and girls as young as 10 years old are being sold for £5,250 (500,000 rupees or €6,580) by gangs operating in the Indian state of Punjab.

A Sun investigator, who posed as a wealthy Sikh living in Britain, met slave trader Makkhan Singh in Jalandhar, a city close to the Nepalese border.

Singh lined up children for him to pick from, saying: “We have supplied lads who have gone on to the UK.

“Take a Nepalese to England. They are good people. They are good at doing housework and they’re very good cooks. No one is going to come after you.”

The gangs also reportedly sell Indian children.

India is flooded with boys. Nepal has been destroyed and all the Nepalese are here.

“We go to the poor parents, we talk to them, we do a deal,” Singh told the reporter.

Almost 9,000 people were killed by a 7.8 magnitude earthquake that struck Nepal on 25 April 2015. Millions of people were left needing aid after the disaster.

‘Truly abhorrent’

British Home Secretary Theresa May wants the National Crime Agency to investigate report.

“Child trafficking is a truly abhorrent crime. No child should be forced into slavery.

“That is why we introduced the Modern Slavery Act last year, which included enhanced protections for potential child victims and sentences up to life imprisonment for those guilty,” she said.

Around 1,000 children are believed to have been trafficked into the UK last year.

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    Mute Sean Lynch
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    Apr 4th 2016, 3:51 PM

    Sick world we live in. I despair.

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    Mute Mark Ryan
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    Apr 5th 2016, 7:48 AM

    What are you going to do to change it?

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    Mute Colette Kearns
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    Apr 4th 2016, 4:00 PM

    What type of person would purchase a child? & they must be keeping them locked up, or else how do you explain where the child has come from! Sick people who sell these children & equally sick people who buy them!

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    Mute Frank Carty
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    Apr 4th 2016, 4:03 PM

    What type of person would purchase a child? Madonna.

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    Mute Bee Shop
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    Apr 4th 2016, 4:50 PM

    It’s actually so sad. Your whole childhood is riddled with abuse and constant fear and worry. Poor souls :(

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    Mute Al Ca
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    Apr 4th 2016, 5:59 PM

    What kind of person?……..you’d be very surprised, how about a doctor and nurse for instance…..
    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-34846592

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    Mute Nyantoon Chol
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    Apr 4th 2016, 6:19 PM

    how are people shocked? people do this to their own life and blood, not much of a stretch to do it to others.

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    Mute Derek Carney
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    Apr 4th 2016, 6:22 PM

    It was her child, she just didn’t want to fill in the forms

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    Apr 4th 2016, 4:03 PM

    There’s currently another article on here about women walking out of mass in Poland to protest against new anti-abortion legislation. Some of the people commenting on that thread would be better spending time trying to help all the kids currently on this planet rather than worrying about what woman do or don’t do with their wombs & unborn foeti.

    Thankfully I’ll never understand the mindset that sees poor or orphaned children & thinks ‘wow I can make money here’.

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    Mute Peter Fechter
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    Apr 4th 2016, 3:46 PM

    Ah the joys and opportunities presented by open borders….

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    Apr 4th 2016, 3:54 PM

    Yup, it’s the borders that create these people

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    Mute Kenneth Bailey
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    Apr 4th 2016, 7:33 PM

    You’re right, it doesn’t create them but it does facilitate their crime

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    Apr 4th 2016, 5:56 PM

    I’m gonna keep saying it. Any crime like this should have a zero tolerance attached to it. Bring in the death penalty for this who traffic these poor children and the same death penalty for those who are willing to buy the kids. The world would be a far better place without them.

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    Mute Kenneth Bailey
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    Apr 4th 2016, 5:19 PM

    Should be burnt at the stake for doing these things. Sick animals, lowest form of life……….

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