Children for sale: UK's new slave tradeBy David Harrison
children are being sold and "trafficked" to Britain from Africa to be exploited as moderLast Updated: 12:01am GMT 27/01/2008
Hundreds of young n-day slaves, it can be revealed.
Watch: David Harrison goes undercover to reveal illicit trade
'You can have my sons for £5,000 or one for £2,500'
The illicit trade in children - sold by their parents, some while still babies, to criminal gangs and people traffickers - has been uncovered by a Sunday Telegraph investigation.
Watch: David Harrison goes undercover to reveal the illicit trade in children in a Sunday Telegraph investigation
An undercover reporter was offered several children for sale by their parents in Nigeria: two boys aged three and five for £5,000, or £2,500 for one, and a 10-month-old baby for £2,000. Teenage girls - including some still pregnant - were willing to sell their babies for less than £1,000.
One international trafficker, tracked down in Lagos, claimed to be buying up to 500 children a year.
Impoverished African parents are being lured by the traffickers' promises of "a better life" for their children, thousands of miles away in cities including London, Birmingham and Manchester.
But, once brought to Britain, the children are used as a fraudulent means to obtain illicit housing and other welfare benefits, totalling tens of thousands of pounds each a year.
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