UK – Child survivors of Nepal earthquake sold to rich British families as slaves

RT – Vulnerable children, including child survivors of last year’s earthquake in Nepal, are being sold to British families as domestic slaves, an investigation by the Sun newspaper has claimed.

The paper says boys and girls as young as 10 are being sold for £5,250 ($7,468) in India’s Punjab province, near the Nepalese border. Last April, a devastating 7.8-magnitude earthquake killed almost 9,000 people, and sent thousands of Nepalese families across the border to India seeking safety.

The Sun reports that black market gangs are targeting Nepalese refugee children as well as kids from poor Indian families by approaching their relatives to “do a deal.” According to the paper, a slave driver, named as Makkan Singh, lined up kids for the paper’s undercover reporter, who was posing as a rich Sikh living in the UK, to choose from.

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