Trafficked child thieves to be returned to parents

The parents of five children rescued from people traffickers by police last week have flown from Romania to be reunited with their offspring.Trafficking gangs are believed to have smuggled in more than 1,000 children from Romania, often buying them from their poor parents for a few hundred pounds. Once in England, the children are forced to work as pickpockets and shoplifters in major towns all over the country. It is estimated that they are making more than £100 million a year for the gangs. Last week, after an intelligence operation lasting more than a year, officers from the Metropolitan Police, Thames Valley and British Transport police raided 17 homes in Slough, Berkshire. They arrested 25 people and removed ten children, many of them under the age of ten, who are now with social services. They will be interviewed by specialist police officers to find out how they came to England. Police found a total of 68 children in the houses. The aim of the raids was to “disrupt organised criminals involved in child trafficking, theft of personal property, pickpocketing and cash machine theft crime on the streets of Westminster”, a Scotland Yard spokesman said.
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