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The New York Times reported 2525 new slavery offenses in England and Wales in 2016, up 159 per cent from the previous year, according to the British government. In a report released on Saturday, many victims were caught in gang traps via online applications, most of them British children.
This was the case of a 14-year-old teenage girl, who every Friday spent a whole year traveling from Victoria Station in London to Eastbourne, a coastal town about 60 miles from the capital, to sell drugs at the request of her kidnapper.
The girl says she was wearing her sports uniform and carrying a shoulder bag covered with pop symbols, trying to give the impression she was on her way to school. While it was doing its work on a weekly schedule, which takes three hours.
The task of a teenager armed with a knife and carrying a large quantity of good-quality drugs is concentrated on traveling to Eastbourne to sell the crack (a form of smoky hard cocaine) and heroin.
When the girl failed to meet the demands of her growing boss, a 48-year-old gang leader, she was either beaten or sexually assaulted.
The fact that the girl experienced a second shock to her mother (the police hide her identity to protect her and protect her daughter too), after the shock of losing seven months in 2016. The newspaper met in London Park and spoke of her shock when the police told her that her daughter was enslaved. "I keep repeating that word, I did not understand how that happened," she said. She pointed out that she often come to the park to ease the panic disorder that was affecting her and still after the disappearance of her daughter, and after knowing the fate that resolved.
The mother explained that throughout the disappearance of her daughter, "I thought of every scenario that could happen to her, but slavery? I did not know slavery was happening in England."
159% increase in slavery in Britain
A report released last month by a British government committee on modern slavery and human trafficking described the growing and expanding practice of slavery in tens of thousands of people in Britain. He pointed out that 2525 recent slavery crimes occurred in England and Wales last year, an increase of 159 per cent over the previous year.
According to the government report, despite increased public awareness of the prevalence of slavery and gangs, and despite the increased vigilance of the police, slavery is increasing and victims are exposed to further exploitation. He acknowledged the shortcomings in the performance of the police and the security services, despite the cooperation of various agencies in better ways to combat the spread of such criminal acts.
The British Police, Relief and Rescue Inspectorate said victims who contact police do not always recognize that they are in the hands of their exploiters, and that others have been "arrested as illegal perpetrators or immigrants and not as victims of enslavement by gang leaders and gangs."
Some of the most vulnerable people who rely on social welfare benefits and lack family life and support are easily affected by those who suddenly appear in their lives, analysts say.
"It is often easy to capture victims during their wanderings, hostels, student hostels or public kitchens," said the Red Cross's anti-trafficking coordinator, a charity that runs the government's support system for adult victims. "Of course there is now the Internet that enables predators to reach people inside their homes," she said.
Mobile Phone Applications
This is how the teenage girl met her hijacker more than a year ago, by applying messages to her phone. Her mother had just lost her job in a bakery and had to cut off her weekly $ 26. What made the girl spend less time with her friends, a longer time on the Internet, and that the victims of trafficking gangs in Britain were immigrants, was expected, or that the largest number of victims are Britons was an unexpected shock. Britons constituted the third largest group of victims, including the teenage girl, while the first and second major groups were for Albanian and Vietnamese victims. It was also found that the majority of victims of child trafficking were British.
No one has seen the teenage girl, whose identity is hidden by the police, because her abductors are still free for months, not in the vicinity of her home or school. She would sneak out of her apartment before dawn, go out of school, and come home late. No one noticed the bruises on her body, the deep scratches on her arms and legs when she began to hurt herself.
Her mother often neglected her daughter, sometimes staying outside for several nights, ignoring school calls that taught her daughter to be absent.
During the school holiday in July 2016, the teenager disappeared. Seven months after her disappearance, in which the mother herself came to accept the fact that her daughter might be dead, she arrived from the informants that the daughter had been kidnapped and enslaved.
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