African Girls Smuggled & Impregnated in UK for Housing

The BBC reported Tuesday that MP's heard testimony from various groups that African girls, most specifically from Uganda, are being smuggled into the UK and then deliberately impregnated so they can move into "coucil flats" or government housing projects.

From the article:

Debbie Aruyo of Africans Unite Against Child Abuse (Afruca) said later some of the children were aged 12 to 16.

The victims were often sent alone into the UK, and placed in council care before falling prey to abuse, she said.

She suggested some of the girls ended up in prostitution while the flats were rented out in a "money making scam."

The Home Office said the government was "committed to tackling the appalling modern slave trade of human trafficking."