Children forced to work in cannabis factories

[WantDaChronic]

CRIMINAL gangs are trafficking hundreds of children into Britain and forcing them to work in cannabis factories, with at least one child per week being found by police, a report said today.

 

Campaign group End Child Prostitution, Child Pornography and the Trafficking of Children for Sexual Purposes (ECPAT) said there had been a five-fold increase in the practice in the last year alone.

 

Children as young as 13, many from Vietnam, were being brought to Britain to work as "slaves" for organised criminals to push production of the drug here to record levels, it said.

 

They are forced to tend cannabis plants grown in suburban houses and often forced to sleep in cupboards, with little chance of escape for fear of being caught.

 

"There is clear evidence that there are young people who are trafficked, bought and sold, for the purpose of forced labour in cannabis production in the UK," ECPAT's director Christine Beddoe told The Independent on Sunday.

 

"In the past 12 months there has been a 500 per cent increase in the number of cases being reported to us.

 

"We now get told about one young person every week being removed from a cannabis factory. But nobody knows the true scale of the problem."

 

Police believe the problem has emerged after organised crime gangs, many of them Vietnamese, moved to dominate the British cannabis market after the narcotic was downgraded from a Class B to Class C drug in 2004.

 

Declassification increased the potential rewards of growing and selling cannabis but decreased the risk of punishment. One police officer was quoted as saying cannabis was the "cash machine of organised crime".

 

The newspaper said one three-bedroom house converted into a cannabis factory can yield up to £300,000 ($700,000) a year.

 

Simon Byrne, an assistant chief constable of Merseyside Police in north-west England and the Association of Chief Police Officers' spokesman on cannabis, said the increase in cannabis production was down to risk and reward.

 

"If you remove the risk, people exploit it. If you put the risk back into enforcement, they will adapt and go into another type of business," he was quoted as saying.

 

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has indicated he is in favour of reversing the cannabis downgrade.

Peter Stanley, from the campaign group Stop the Traffic, was quoted as saying criminals were effectively picking the children "to order".

 

"There is evidence that particular south-east Asian villages are targeted for specific trades, with Vietnam now known to specialise in boys for cannabis factories," he said.

 

The campaigners said trafficked children found by police on raids at cannabis factories need better protection, as many have disappeared without trace soon after being taken into the care of social services.

 

They also said there was evidence many of those prosecuted in connection with such cannabis farms were in fact originally trafficked as children.

 

ECPAT published a report on Thursday calling for an urgent government inquiry into how large numbers of suspected or known trafficked children go missing from local authority care each year.

Source: www.news.com.au

 

sounds like properganda in order to get marijuana classed as a harder drug again to me besides its not like gangs would trust their crops to kids to grow and maintain even if they had all the knowledge they needed, at the most they would get them to manicure because their tiny hands would be able to get all the small leaves

[Indycar]

Utter Bullshit to the extreme...

 

These prohibitionist's need to relax, roll a big scoob 'n chill out. Come to think of it, the British Gov should examine these wankers that make these statements for paranoid schizophrenia or whatever. Pretty clear to me that they're delusional.

 

[SukonmiSkunk]

One police officer was quoted as saying cannabis was the "cash machine of organised crime".

 

well; then that i am sure of.. thats why its still illegal... oh.. doesnt "organized" usually mean police and government involvement??.. the only "organized crime" i see are run by the governments... fucking criminal terrorists that they are...

 

geez i wish i could get.. "organized"... my place is a fuckin pig sty..

[Pam]

We heard about something similar in Florida where Cubans were being secreted in to farm pot in big fancy homes!

Sounds like a British remix of the same story!

[jimbojones5678]

I can't wait to have children of my own so I can make them work in my cannabis factory...

[humphrey b flaubert]

Sounds like bullshit to me

"The campaigners said trafficked children found by police on raids at cannabis factories need better protection, as many have disappeared without trace soon after being taken into the care of social services."

How convenient, no proof that any of this is true because the kids dissolve as soon as they are taken in protective custody.

I'd be more interested in how child protective services can lose at least one kid a week as appears to be claimed in this article, they say that they are finding one kid a week in these grow houses, but they then disappear? What are they aliens?

[Zaknefain]

The only thing that I concluded after reading that is that they should legalize pot so that those kids dont get harmed growing it, WHY THE FUCK WOULD THEY BRING KIDS TO BRITAIN TO GROW POT ANYWAYS? They wouldnt, they arnt growing pot, they are making meth and heroine!

[sunnycoaststoner]

geez i wish i could get.. "organized"... my place is a fuckin pig sty..

 

 

 

as long as your pig sty looks like frazzels pig sty, then thats ok ss

[sunnycoaststoner]

Sounds like bullshit to me

"The campaigners said trafficked children found by police on raids at cannabis factories need better protection, as many have disappeared without trace soon after being taken into the care of social services."

How convenient, no proof that any of this is true because the kids dissolve as soon as they are taken in protective custody.

I'd be more interested in how child protective services can lose at least one kid a week as appears to be claimed in this article, they say that they are finding one kid a week in these grow houses, but they then disappear? What are they aliens?

 

 

 

did you know that there is still an ongoing investigation into the uk's orphanages, where all the brass(judges, police, politicians etc) had these pedophile clubs using the boys from these orphanages as toys and entertainment. what say they arnt doing that with the asian kiddies and just blaming the marijuana factories to throw everyone off their scent. absolute bullshit propaganda!!!!!!!!