“You should be fantasising, a younger boy your age can’t be residing that sort of life.”
These are the phrases Sosa Henkoma remembers being advised by a social employee when he was 11 years outdated. He had simply advised them {that a} gang had used him to promote medicine, and now they have been threatening to kill him.
After being abused by his stepmother, and positioned in foster care, Sosa was exploited by a drug gang who despatched him from London to Margate to promote medicine to an addict there.
As social companies weren’t going to assist him, he turned to a different gang for defense. This group would choose him up from college, take him to a forest, and train him how you can shoot.
“Then after that, I used to be put to work.”
Partly one, Sosa tells Annie Kelly about how he was groomed by a number of gangs, and what made him susceptible to exploitation.
He now trains the police, NHS and social employees on how you can work with individuals who have skilled youngster felony exploitation. He works alongside the anti-trafficking charity Causeway.
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