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Gambian children are being sold to British paedophiles for as little as £2-a-fourth dimension by their drastic parents, Dominicus Online can reveal.

Huge numbers of predators are taking advantage of lax laws in the poverty stricken African country to embark on sick child abuse holidays where they openly target footling boys and girls.

Lord's day Online saw get-go mitt how poor Gambian children can be vulnerable to British paedos when we visited the beach resorts that dot Kololi on the country'south picturesque Atlantic coastline.

Our reporter was constantly shocked by the number of unaccompanied African minors he saw being cared for past middle-aged, Western men who did not appear to be their biological fathers.

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A human with a British emphasis holds a scared toddler in his arms

The encounters witnessed included a girl aged between 6 and eight having lunch with a balding, white haired man in a restaurant filled with similarly anile tourists.

The same twenty-four hours we saw a stoutly congenital man in his 50s or 60s wading into the body of water gripping the hand of a tiny African child in white swimming shorts.

As unsettling was the sight of a Gambian toddler watching wide-eyed with fear as a middle-aged white woman got into a fist fight with a young black prostitute at a popular beach bar.

It was 11.30pm at night and the air was thick with cigarette smoke. The child, no older than two, was being held closely by a white man with a British emphasis.

Children sold for £2

Our investigation comes as experts warn that the economical crisis unleashed by the collapse of travel business firm Thomas Cook is helping turn the former British colony into a "paedophile paradise" where perverts can operate unchecked.

Thomas Cook flew 45 per cent of The Republic of the gambia's 100,000 annual visitors from the Great britain to the capital Banjul until it went into liquidation nether the weight of its debts in September.

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In an exclusive interview, Lamin Fatty, the National Coordinator of the Child Protection Brotherhood in Republic of the gambia, reveals that both male and female tourists are targeting African minors.

He warns: "Sex is cheap in my land and children are being sold for as little as 150 dalasis, or simply over £2 in your currency. Some of the parents know their children are being abused and they accept it considering they are then desperate for food in their bellies.

"Others are too naïve to realise. They think the Westerner is paying their bills and helping their male child or girl out of the kindness of their eye, while in reality they have bad intentions.

"Kid corruption is going on all the time in The Gambia and the government is non doing enough to put a end to it.

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"Our children are being approached directly on the beaches or the street and child abusers from all over Europe including the UK are coming hither for this.

"I want to brand clear that this does not just involve men merely also developed women who are paying for sex activity with teenage boys in The Republic of the gambia.

"Nosotros have laws that are supposed to stop this from happening just they are not existence enforced so nosotros have become a paradise for paedophiles."

Locals 'desperate' after Thomas Melt collapse

As tourism makes up one-third of the country'south GDP, there are fears that businesses will become bosom and locals will go hungry following an estimated 50 per cent drib in economical activity that has already hit embankment resorts.

Lawyer and children's rights abet Malick Jallow told Sunday Online: "While some tourists volition e'er want to help poor Gambians, others will see this situation as an opportunity to exploit immature children.

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Lamin Fatty, National Coordinator of the Children'southward Protection Alliance, said this boy shouldn't be in a bar then belatedly at night, adding: "We do not encourage concrete affection with minors"

"The problem is that the abuse is sometimes carried out with the blessing of the parents because they are so in need.

"The perception is that white people, or 'toubabs' every bit they call them, have stacks of cash and these parents are oft excited that their child has attracted the attending of a white man.

"Information technology actually makes them feel proud so they requite their permission for the boy or girl to become with the person and when the police try to question them they will non co-operate."

'She didn't look comfortable at all'

Former Thomas Melt rep Anne Heap, 53, from Wigan, said: "These people are as poor every bit poor can be — it's rare to see a kid wearing shoes — and there isn't any other trade for them outside tourism.

"Thomas Cook used to always give united states an extra 10kg luggage allowance then the workers and passengers could bring aid boxes to The Gambia — bones things like clothes, medicine and schoolhouse equipment.

"The first thing I idea of when we went nether was, 'What is going to happen to people in The The gambia?' We were the only airline flying directly there.I've heard that crime has already shot up as there is not enough money coming in — the hand that feeds them is gone.

"Sex activity tourism is already huge in The The gambia — some confined are like brothels — and I do worry that more children will get lured into prostitution to feed their families. When I was working at that place I would come across old men walking with girls as young as 10, 11 or 12. There is a dark side to Republic of the gambia.

"One fourth dimension when nosotros were flying dorsum to Manchester there was a British man in his 70s with a girl who was only most eight or nine. This was near 8 years agone. I was so concerned about what was going on that I got chatting to him outside the toilet during the flight. I wanted to speak to the girl too simply she never left her seat, she didn't wait comfortable at all. I reported it and edge security later told me the man had been 'apprehended' but I was not able to find out what happened to him or the girl after that."

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We came across a number of tourists with young children in the W African resortCredit: My Story Media

In that location is no proof to suggest that whatsoever of the men nosotros pictured were paedophiles.

Notwithstanding the experts we showed our dossier of photos to said the police force should have questioned them according to Gambian child protection laws.

Lamin Fatty said: "This does worry me because, if the children are unaccompanied, they should non be alone in tourist areas without their parents.

"Information technology is as well forbidden for a kid to be in a bar and then late at nighttime and we do not encourage physical affection with minors.

"I piece of work with young girls and boys and I would not hug them or choice them up, information technology is not appropriate."

Malick Jallow added: "I would accept questioned these men had I seen them myself. Equally a lawyer and an activist, I would want to know if they accept the authority to be caring for that child. We have a lot of good Samaritans coming to The Gambia merely we likewise have people who use charity as a forepart to hibernate their bad intentions.

"The security guards should have questioned these men but there is a culture of inferiority here and they would have been scared to challenge a wealthy Westerner."

British tourists tin can still fly to The Republic of the gambia via Lisbon with the TAP airline or via Casablanca with Royal Air Maroc. There is also a limited directly service run past 'The Republic of the gambia Experience' company and package deals can be snapped up for just over £500 a person.

Pensioners taking teens to hotels

Older British women are famed for holidaying in The Gambia, where some pick up African gigolosCredit: My Story Media

Health care assistant Lucy Mendy, 33, from Gloucester, was trying to relish a winter holiday in the country she has come up to see as a second home — simply says she was shocked by some of the things she had witnessed during her trip.

She said: "I've seen erstwhile men taking girls looking equally immature as xv or 16-years-old to their hotel room.

"It fabricated me experience sick and I wish I could have intervened, but this is not the UK and I was scared what might have happened if I tried to confront them. People here are then poor, some of them volition do anything for coin, even if information technology means giving their bodies to a tourist."

Marjorie said the bear upon of Thomas Cook closing down was clear to see in the resort

Lucy'southward mum, pensioner Marjorie Botton, 68, also from Gloucester, added: "The plummet of Thomas Cook has hit people so difficult.

"They are getting half as many British tourists and that means they might not make enough coin to get through the quiet season, which starts in Apr."

Dutch tourist Corina Bouwman too witnessed suspected kid abuse during her two week, winter holiday in Dec.

The social worker, 54, said: "I've seen a number of tiny African children walking effectually with large white men. On each occasion I thought, 'What is going on here? Where is the child's mother?' But I didn't want to accuse anyone in instance I had misread the situation."

'White men approach little boys and girls'

Father-of-four Abdullah Labamba, 48, runs a fruit stand up next to 1 of the many hotels that line Kololi'south palm-tree fringed beach and says he has witnessed paedophiles targeting vulnerable kid workers selling peanuts for less than £i a bag.

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Fruit seller Abdullah Labamba, pictured, says paedos often target vulnerable kid workers selling peanuts

He said: "I've seen white men approach the piffling boys and girls right hither on the beach. I practise my best to stop them. "I tell the children, 'Get out of here, this is not a safe place for yous.' The children will run away but they ordinarily come back. It's shocking."

"Their parents are desperate for coin and they know they won't exist allowed home until they have sold at to the lowest degree five bags. Some men attempt to take reward of that by offering them £l for the whole basket. Then they will ask them to come back to become somewhere private."

Child corruption scourge

Tragically, child abuse is now endemic in The Gambia, where lx per cent of the 1.9m population live beneath the poverty line.

Previous research has shown that paedophiles often pose as charity workers and Expert Samaritans so they can befriend poor families — and UNICEF has warned that The Gambia is one of Africa's tiptop destinations for child sexual activity tourism.

The Gambian government meanwhile has tried to scissure downwards and in 2013 introduced new laws allowing them to seize hotel properties if children are knowingly abused on the premises.

They too pledged to give out "hefty fines" and "potent sentences" to paedophiles that are caught.

But incredibly there has been only one successful prosecution since laws were tightened and that homo ended up beingness pardoned by the president.

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Svein Agesandakar was jailed for sexual offences against children

Norwegian teacher Svein Agesandakar, 57, was found guilty of abusing six children, the youngest aged three, in 2006.

The courtroom heard how he had tricked his way into a difficult-up Gambian family by posing as a do-gooder, giving the parents sacks of rice and new shoes in exchange for time alone with their large brood of six kids in a hotel room.

The paedophile had separate convictions for child corruption in Kingdom of norway merely was sentenced to just three years in jail.

Then, in 2018 President Adama Barrow decided to pardon him for reasons that have never been explained. The pardon was later revoked amidst a public outcry but experts fear his case has given a green light to other paedophiles.

ECPAT is the only child rights charity that is solely focusing on catastrophe the sexual exploitation of children.

Children in all countries of the world are at risk of trafficking and prostitution, too as online dangers such equally grooming, sextortion and the proliferation of child sexual abuse images.

In recent years, the travel and tourism sector has imperilled millions of children worldwide as travelling child sex activity offenders find new victims.

To stop these crimes, knowledge and show must be of the highest possible quality to inform decisions and guide activeness.

Predator free

In Oct terminal year an official UN investigation found that Gambia's tourist areas keep to exist a dangerous identify for children and that predators now stay in motels and private apartments and so they tin can avoid prying optics.

United nations Special Rapporteur Maud de Boer-Buquicchio reported: "The rare instances when complaints are lodged with the police are not duly acted upon, the gathering of compelling bear witness is delayed, and investigation and prosecution is stalled, resulting in victims or witnesses withdrawing their complaints.

"Some cases have also reportedly been dismissed on the grounds that statements by child victims were allegedly inconsistent."

Our report comes after the UK government was slammed for failing to protect children overseas from British predators.

A report by the Independent Enquiry into Kid Sexual Abuse (IICSA) institute more needs to be washed to make certain offenders operating in poor countries like The Gambia are caught and prosecuted.

Calling for a new national plan to tackle the problem, Debbie Beadle, Director of Programmes at the child protection organisation ECPAT United kingdom, said: "We hope that by bringing these institutional failings to light, the UK tin can become a world leader in tackling the corruption of vulnerable children globally, and that child victims abroad are no longer 'under the radar' of authorities.

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