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'African boys are brought to Britain to be sacrificed'
African boys are being smuggled into Britain as intended human sacrifices, a report commissioned by the Metropolitan Police has revealed. The children are brought to London and offered up in blood rituals at the behest of fundamentalist sects to combat evil spirits. Police believe that the boys, considered valuable because they are "unblemished", can be bought for as little as £10 in Africa. The report into so-called "faith crimes" was commissioned after the death of eight-year-old Victoria Climbié, who was starved to death by relatives who thought she was possessed. It was compiled by a social worker and a lawyer with the help of London's African community. The authors reported claims of witchcraft, spells, and of HIV-positive people having sex with children in attempts to be cured. The authors pointed out they could not test the truth of these allegations but voiced concerns that children could be in life-threatening situations.The report also highlighted concerns about church pastors identifying children as witches, who then suffer violence at the hands of their parents. The report says the pastors and their churches have "lucrative business" operations in the UK, Europe and Africa. It said: "A number of pastors maintain that God speaks to them and lets them know when someone is possessed ... After much debate, they acknowledged that children labelled as possessed are in danger of being beaten by their families. However, they would not accept that they played a major role in inciting such violence." The report concluded that police encountered a "wall of silence" in investigating such cases. Last month Scotland Yard disclosed that 300 black boys, aged between four and seven years of age, had vanished from London schools and only two had been traced. Detectives in the capital are investigating about 30 allegations of children being abused in magic rituals. The potential scale of the problem was exposed by the discovery in the Thames in 2001 of the torso of a four-year-old boy, dubbed Adam. Apparently the victim of a ritual killing, he had been made to eat rock, bone and pieces of gold before he died. Earlier this month Sita Kisanga, 35, of Hackney, London, was convicted for torturing an Angolan child whom she accused of being a witch. Kisanga was a member of a west African church that sanctions aggressive forms of exorcism. John Azar, an adviser to the Metropolitan Police, said that known cases could be the "tip of the iceberg". But Dr William Les Henry, a lecturer in sociology at Goldsmith's College, said that there was an element of racism to be seen in the report. He said: "The model that they're based on, they always seem to base their models on the fact that Africans are less civilised, less rational, so their whole systems of rationality are irrational." Posted by: Paul Moloney 2005-06-17 |
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