In particular these clips:
Children are being trafficked into the UK from Africa and used for human sacrifices, a confidential report for the Metropolitan Police suggests.
There were also claims that youngsters were being smuggled into the UK as domestic slaves and for men with HIV who believed if they had sex with a child they would be cleansed.
Have you heard or known of such "beliefs and practices" in Africa? Article does not say specifically what part of Africa the human smuggling is coming from; which would probably help me answer my own question.
I've been following the cases of human trafficking in the UK for some time now, and the people who are involved come from West Africa. Actually it is slightly a bit more complex than that, with many of the children (if not all) coming from West Africa, but a good number of the perps being a mix of West African and Caribbean. Anyways it is a total atrocity since these kids are being subjected to all sorts of bad stuff over there. But the smuggling is of West African children in the UK. Sad.