Trafficked Children used for human sacrifices

[Maranatha]

Children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa and used for human sacrifices, a confidential report for the Metropolitan Police suggests.
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It said that people who are desperate seek out churches to cast spells for them.

“Members of the workshop said for spells to be powerful it required a sacrifice of a male child unblemished by circumcision,” the report said. Contributors said boys were being trafficked into the UK for this purpose, but did not give details because they said they feared they would be “dead meat” if they told any more.

It is not clear how widespread the practices are within African communities, but those working with minority groups suggest it is fairly small-scale.

The report also spoke of a wide gulf between child protection agencies and those in the communities involved, which means people are reluctant to get in touch with the authorities.

Police described this as a “wall of silence” prompted by concerns that individuals would be “betraying” their family, community and faith if they spoke out.

It also acknowledged the sensitivity of the issue as the abuse was a product of individuals’ faith and beliefs. Independent adviser to the Met John Azah said that since the Climbie case and the ritualistic murder of a black child known as “Adam”, there were concerns the police were only touching the “tip of the iceberg”.

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[Lisa4Catholics]

Is this Santaria?They also deal with human sacrifice,the directoress of an abortion mill here is a priestess (very convenient):nope:

 

[Lisa_N]

Children are also trafficked to become sex slaves. It is also very much a problem in Africa as well as Asia. Shared Hope (www.sharedhope.org) has recently moved into Africa and their spokesman said that the trafficking is associated with very violent criminals. Pity the poor children.

Lisa N

 

[antiaphrodite]

Lisa4Catholics:

Is this Santaria?They also deal with human sacrifice,the directoress of an abortion mill here is a priestess (very convenient):nope:

santerian priestess and abortionist!!! how very convenient!!!

 

[Cockney_Clive]

I am rather sceptical myself. I speak as a citizen of London and a professional social worker. This wouldn’t be the first time that the Metropolitan Police have commissioned a report that turned out to be a document that made them a laughing stock.

For a start, this report manages to conflate several, quite different issues. The cultural belief of witches and spells among some African communities. The trafficking of children. A (widespread) African belief that having sex with a virgin will cure one of HIV/AIDS infection. The explosion of African churches and Christian sects that have unconventional or very exaggerated Evangelical/Charismatic traits. Add to this mix an (unsubstantiated) ‘report’ that some 3,000 children are said to have gone ‘missing’ from London in the last five years and you get to the ‘substance’ of this report.Now, this figure is a ‘back of envelope’ calculation. We don’t even know for sure these ‘missing’ 3,000 existed in the first place. And even so, there are very many reasons for ‘disappearance’. Some will be illegal migrants. Others will just have moved house and dropped off official lists; others might not be registered for schooling (see 1 and 2).

Add to this one five-year old unsolved murder, a high-profile child abuse case where the child died, and a recent case involving child abuse where the motive for the abuse was said to be that the child was ‘possessed’.

The murder is real. The torso of a five year old boy found in the Thames identification still unknown. Everything else added to our knowledge since is speculation. Like that the boy had been ritually sacrificed. We don’t know that for sure.

Victoria Climbie was an 9 year old girl who was dreadfully abused by her ‘aunt’ (who was no such thing) and her boy friend and died in circumstances worse than a dog. Her parents in Africa had sent Victoria to this woman in the hope that their daughter would receive a good education. Now this is actually a common practice, especially among Nigerian and other West African countries. I am not saying it is right, but it is common and has been so for many decades. This would be. technically, ‘trafficking’ since it is done for money. Of course there is other, more abusive and horrid trafficking also.

Victoria was a lively and boisterous child. She also, sometimes, wet the bed. This woman decided that all this ‘disobedience’ was due to the child’s ‘demon possession’. Victoria was taken to a ‘pastor’ who ‘exorcised’ her with much physical chastisement. And auntie and boyfriend regularly whipped Victoria and made her sleep in the path, tied up, in a plastic rubbish bag.

So, I am not naive enough to believe that dreadful things don’t go on inside our African communities (but others also, and not forgetting our own, white working class ones either). But as to how widespread the sacrifice of children might be; I find it hard to accept. Obviously one is one too many.

One thing that concerns me about this report I suppose is that it rather buys into the racialist mind-set of Conrad’s Heart of Darkness and all those stereotypes of Africans as Cannibals and savages. The crimes of a few shouldn’t taint the majority. For goodness sake, a third of my Parish are Nigerians. They are good people and good Catholics.