Dozens of children from Vietnam are being smuggled from a French refugee camp to the UK to work as slaves at cannabis farms, media reports cited charity workers as saying. NSPCC said it has inspected the camp and is concerned that criminal gangs are using the settlement as a stop-over for smuggling children to the UK. The charity said the children would become victims of physical and sexual abuse during the journey, and once in the UK, of labor exploitation, forced marriage and criminal activities as well. There are hundreds of unaccompanied children as young as nine living in the camp and Vietnamese children are particularly prevalent, it found. Vietnamese gangs are reportedly rising the UK’s cannabis market, with domination rising from around 15 percent in 2005 to 90 percent last year.

Source: Thanhnien News September 03, 2016 07:30 UTC