Lake Volta, ghana, Togo
The court, presided over by Mr Emmanuel Davis, remanded two others who pleaded not guilty in prison custody to reappear in two weeks. The decision of the court incurred the displeasure of relatives of the convicts. The rescue operation, which lasted about two hours, was met with resistance from some of the fishermen, while others ordered their ‘children’ to run into the bush on the arrival of the rescue team.
Location
Togo · Lake Volta, ghana · 2011 (location generalized to protect survivors)
Response & intervention
A special joint operation by the Anti-Human Trafficking Unit of the Ghana Police Service and its partners has led to the rescue of 116 children, aged between four and 17, from communities along the Volta Lake.
After the children had been screened, it was discovered that 15 of them had been trafficked from the Central, Greater Accra and Eastern regions and the southern part of the Volta Region. Supt Quaye said the children would be integrated with their families, while others trafficked from other regions would be helped by the Department of Social Welfare and PACODEP to locate their families.
http://www.modernghana.com/news/328854/1/116-trafficked-children-rescued-28-men-sentenced.html
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