:00:04. > :00:11.investigate ritual child sacrifice. Some viewers may find the content
:00:11. > :00:17.on this programme disturbing. Traditional African witch doctors,
:00:17. > :00:21.also known as spiritual healers, are believed to have special powers.
:00:21. > :00:26.From Giles could they learn to brute power for potions and Jimmy
:00:26. > :00:33.Kate with the spirits of the natural world. -- brute power for
:00:33. > :00:38.potions. They believe they can banish evil. Their practice is
:00:38. > :00:48.known as juju. It involves the use of praise, herds and animal
:00:48. > :00:50.
:00:50. > :01:00.sacrifice. As Uganda's new elite obtain wealth and power, an ancient
:01:00. > :01:02.
:01:02. > :01:09.practice has re-emerged, leading to the deaths of hundreds of children.
:01:09. > :01:18.We expose the witch doctors who are offered child sacrifice. -- who
:01:18. > :01:26.offer child sacrifice. We uncover the traffickers who abduct children
:01:26. > :01:32.to meet the demand from which doctors in Africa and abroad. In
:01:32. > :01:42.the UK, which doctors are using human blood for what they say are
:01:42. > :02:01.
:02:01. > :02:08.powerful rituals. What we have seen on the scan explains... He did
:02:08. > :02:13.suffer brain damage. There is not much we can do. They call him the
:02:13. > :02:23.miracle child, a machete was sliced 3 Alan's head and neck in an
:02:23. > :02:26.
:02:26. > :02:35.attempt to be -- be heard him. The work of which doctors attempting
:02:35. > :02:42.child sacrifice. His mutilated body was found near his village home. He
:02:42. > :02:47.had also been castrated. It was mum -- one month before he woke from a
:02:47. > :02:55.coma. Doctors are surprised he survived. He will need a lifetime
:02:55. > :03:01.of emotional and physical therapy. It is quite shocking to think...
:03:01. > :03:10.This is an innocent young child. Alan's story is unusual in Uganda,
:03:10. > :03:16.but only because he survived. Human sacrifice, believed to bring wealth
:03:16. > :03:22.and good health, was rare in Uganda until around three years ago, when
:03:22. > :03:26.it re-emerged, coinciding with a boom in the economy. A government
:03:26. > :03:31.report released last year claims that 9,000 children have gone
:03:31. > :03:37.missing since 2007. Many are thought to have been trafficked for
:03:37. > :03:42.juju rituals, including child sacrifice. It is widely believed
:03:42. > :03:47.that some members of the new elite are paying which doctors vast sums
:03:47. > :03:52.of money for an ancient practice. The wealthy do not sacrifice their
:03:52. > :03:58.own children. We are heading to the villages and farming communities
:03:58. > :04:08.that surround Kampala. They McKone a district has the highest rate of
:04:08. > :04:13.
:04:14. > :04:18.child sacrifice cases in the country. It is a familiar story. As
:04:18. > :04:23.news reached the village that three young children had been sacrificed,
:04:23. > :04:33.parents ran to where the bodies had been found. Fearing it was there a
:04:33. > :04:39.child. Both of her children had been murdered. The same day, the
:04:39. > :04:49.local witch doctor also sacrificed his own child. Later, he was
:04:49. > :05:02.
:05:02. > :05:10.convicted of all four murders. I am told that justice is rare and slow.
:05:10. > :05:15.This is where you found the body? Elsewhere, Tepenensi found the body
:05:15. > :05:21.of her six-year-old grandson, Stephen. He had been missing for 24
:05:21. > :05:29.hours. The local witch doctor admitted to sacrificing Stephen.
:05:29. > :05:35.Tepenensi said the police did not want to investigate. Tepenensi
:05:35. > :05:42.tells me that she turned down the offer of what the police described
:05:42. > :05:47.as compensation for Stephen's murder. Alan's father has sold his
:05:47. > :05:53.home to pay for his son's medical treatment and moved to the slums of
:05:54. > :05:58.Mukono. They are still waiting for justice. In 2009 the government
:05:58. > :06:06.lost a child sacrifice Police Task Force. Families of victims current
:06:06. > :06:15.-- claim of corruption, slay investigation and lethargic courts.
:06:15. > :06:21.The men Allen claims kidnap team lived in this community. They
:06:21. > :06:25.continue to take children to sacrifice them. Posing as
:06:25. > :06:30.businessmen, we asked around for a local witch doctor that could bring
:06:30. > :06:36.prosperity to our Uganda and construction company. We were
:06:36. > :06:41.introduced to this man, Awali. During the first meeting, Awali
:06:41. > :06:46.sacrificed a goat to bring luck to the business. A few days later, we
:06:46. > :06:54.were invited back to his shrine, to discuss what he says is the most
:06:54. > :07:04.powerful spell, the sacrifice of a child. There are two ways of doing
:07:04. > :07:26.
:07:26. > :07:36.it. The whole head is cut off totally... He explains how he and
:07:36. > :07:48.
:07:48. > :07:53.his brother find children to sacrifice. Awali claims he has
:07:53. > :08:03.sacrificed children before. Is the same which Dr that tried to kill
:08:03. > :08:11.
:08:11. > :08:16.Alan? Do you recognise this man? Is he one of the men who took you?
:08:16. > :08:21.Yes? The police have told us that this case were not go to trial
:08:21. > :08:26.because the only evidence is Alan's eyewitness account, which is not
:08:26. > :08:31.enough to secure a conviction. Just how prevalent is child sacrifice in
:08:31. > :08:38.Uganda? No-one from the government accepted our invitation to be
:08:38. > :08:43.interviewed. However, the issue is played down. The police cite
:08:43. > :08:50.statistics of 30 a definite cases since 2006. Most of these were from
:08:50. > :08:55.Mukono. This figure is based only on conclusive investigations. Last
:08:55. > :08:59.year, 900 reported cases of child sacrifice were awaiting
:08:59. > :09:04.investigation by the Police Task Force. The Police Commissioner
:09:04. > :09:09.vehemently denies allegations of corruption, planning a lack of
:09:09. > :09:18.resources to investigate. If we get information that someone is
:09:18. > :09:23.involved in criminal activities, like a human sacrifice. We shall go
:09:23. > :09:33.and investigate. If we prove the case we shall take them to court.
:09:33. > :09:38.
:09:38. > :09:43.Sometimes the cases, they are not proven. Alan and his father attend
:09:43. > :09:50.Mass here every Sunday. This church community looks to each other for
:09:50. > :09:55.understanding and support. Over the last year more children have been
:09:55. > :10:02.abducted from this parish than the official number for the entire
:10:02. > :10:11.country. We wake up with shocking news. The main thing is abducted
:10:12. > :10:20.children. The biggest number is sacrifice. These children are
:10:20. > :10:26.exchanged for money. It is brutality and human circumstances.
:10:26. > :10:34.A report by a Jubilee Campaign claims many of the men offer a rich
:10:34. > :10:37.man child sacrifice are actually criminal. -- criminals, posing as
:10:37. > :10:46.witch doctors. This campaign is calling on the government to
:10:46. > :10:52.regulate which doctors. The children have no voices. Their
:10:52. > :10:58.voices have been silenced by the law. The police and not acting.
:10:58. > :11:07.People read the newspapers and to nothing. We will do whatever it
:11:07. > :11:11.takes to fight this evil. Will they listen? We pray that they will.
:11:11. > :11:15.Local witch doctors are not responsible for every child that
:11:15. > :11:25.goes missing in communities like this one. Victims are found as far
:11:25. > :11:28.
:11:28. > :11:32.away as the UK. According to a recent US government report on
:11:32. > :11:36.global trafficking, Uganda has emerged as one of the main source
:11:36. > :11:42.countries for traffickers. Seeking children to take to Europe for use
:11:42. > :11:48.in witchcraft rituals and other forms of exploitation. The Ugandan
:11:48. > :11:52.government has made a minimum effort to tackle the problem. How
:11:52. > :11:56.easy is it to buy a child in Uganda? Posing as traffickers
:11:56. > :12:05.wanting children to smuggle into the UK, we had our first meeting
:12:05. > :12:14.lined up within days. Hello. This is Chris. I have heard a very good
:12:14. > :12:24.things about you. We tracked down a man, a notorious in Uganda's
:12:24. > :12:30.
:12:30. > :12:40.underworld as he -- prolific charge trafficker. 100 children? I have so
:12:40. > :12:52.
:12:52. > :12:58.many. I have a new work in Uganda. That is the man who claims to head
:12:58. > :13:04.a network across Uganda who kidnaps children to provide them for using
:13:04. > :13:09.witchcraft and other forms of exploitation. He insisted we meet
:13:09. > :13:14.at an isolated hotel 250 miles from the capital. He claims to have been
:13:14. > :13:24.selling children for use by witchdoctors in Uganda and abroad
:13:24. > :13:42.
:13:42. > :13:48.for over 20 years. He boasts how it is done. He explains that means to
:13:48. > :13:56.work DUP to child, his preferred method. A second meeting and he is
:13:56. > :14:06.keen to be in work. One question. When he abducts them. Are we sure
:14:06. > :14:13.
:14:13. > :14:23.they will not be any police involvement? I don't want any
:14:23. > :14:30.
:14:30. > :14:38.police. Snows, OK. He demanded a fee of $15,000 per child. After
:14:38. > :14:41.this meeting we withdrew from negotiations. Britain has emerged
:14:41. > :14:47.as one of the main detonation countries for children trafficked
:14:47. > :14:54.from Africa. Little is known about her there are traffic in but a
:14:54. > :14:59.sinister picture is emerging of why. Evidence of child sacrifice in the
:14:59. > :15:05.UK first emerged ten years ago when the torso of a young Nigerian boy
:15:05. > :15:09.was discovered on the banks of the River Thames. There have been other
:15:09. > :15:14.cases but the murder of children for sacrificial rituals remains we
:15:14. > :15:18.in this country. We have discovered that over the last four years
:15:18. > :15:24.nearly 400 children trafficked to Britain have been rescued by police
:15:24. > :15:30.agencies. Many them have been abused by witchdoctors. Some agreed
:15:30. > :15:35.to share their experiences with us. Still appearing there are abuses,
:15:35. > :15:42.actors have impersonated there was us. The witchdoctors take your here
:15:42. > :15:49.and cut your arms, legs, he and genitals and click the blood. They
:15:49. > :15:55.say that even you speak up, I can kill you. He was evil and make that
:15:55. > :16:00.things happen. I believed it. Now this is my punishment. I was very
:16:00. > :16:06.scared of the witchcraft and what would happen to me. I asked God to
:16:06. > :16:11.protect me. I knew his power was stronger than this. The witch
:16:11. > :16:16.doctor told me he could use my head. Sometimes there would wake up and
:16:16. > :16:24.he would be standing at any. Every night I was terrified that a would
:16:24. > :16:28.not wake up like the next day. Testimony from rescued victims
:16:28. > :16:35.provides an insight into the criminal industry that supplies an
:16:35. > :16:45.increasing number of children for use in GQ rituals in Britain.
:16:45. > :16:49.
:16:49. > :16:52.experience shows that the traffickers can be anyone.
:16:52. > :16:58.Witchdoctors, or traditional spiritual healers, a growing in
:16:58. > :17:01.popularity in Britain particularly within African Guinea Nitties. But
:17:01. > :17:08.many advertisements for witchdoctors in the mainstream
:17:08. > :17:12.press are in that people from all backgrounds. For around �350
:17:12. > :17:18.witchdoctors offer what they say are live changing rituals involving
:17:18. > :17:23.career and herds. But as we discovered there are some we engage
:17:23. > :17:28.in more sinister practices. Posing as a married couple with financial
:17:28. > :17:32.problems we had consultations with 10 witchdoctors. All of them up at
:17:32. > :17:36.the Oval potions and animal sacrifice to bring as well. But two
:17:36. > :17:46.of them also offered as a ritual involving the use of human but,
:17:46. > :17:51.which is illegal. I have it. I have played. He had a bottle of blood or
:17:51. > :17:58.ready-prepared. He instructed us to release the smell of the blood into
:17:58. > :18:02.out the home. Not take its nil. Very bad. Just a little. He claims
:18:03. > :18:12.he was born with his healing powers, helping clients because Europe and
:18:13. > :18:13.
:18:13. > :18:19.Africa. -- across Europe and Africa. Forensic tests revealed the bottle
:18:20. > :18:22.did contain human blood as well as excrement and chemicals. There is
:18:22. > :18:30.name evidence is that it was extracted from anyone against their
:18:30. > :18:35.will. We have been investigating one particular case. That of a 13-
:18:35. > :18:41.year-old Ugandan girl traffic to Britain. She was abused in Juju
:18:41. > :18:45.rituals. She was also sexually exploited. She is now say, living
:18:45. > :18:51.under the protection of social services. Police efforts to track
:18:51. > :18:58.down her traffickers and abuses have not resulted in any arrests.
:18:58. > :19:02.We have obtained UK Border Agency files which showed that in December
:19:02. > :19:08.2006 the 13-year-old Ugandan girl and to the UK on a Ugandan passport
:19:08. > :19:16.with a ballad British visa. The passport she travelled on belonged
:19:16. > :19:20.to a 21-year-old woman his father is Haruuna Ssalabaya, at that time
:19:20. > :19:25.a senior minister in the Ugandan government. British visas were
:19:25. > :19:29.issued to him and his. It to attend a conference at the houses of
:19:29. > :19:34.Parliament in London. The files on them that the fingerprints of the
:19:34. > :19:40.person who travelled on his. A's passport out the same as those of
:19:40. > :19:44.the trafficked girl. -- on his daughter's passport. When
:19:44. > :19:49.interviewed by British police, he tell them that he and his daughter
:19:49. > :19:55.were victims of forgery. They had never applied for British visas.
:19:55. > :20:03.Now backing Uganda we went in search of Haruuna Ssalabaya for our
:20:03. > :20:07.and inquiries. He lost his seat in elections last February. In several
:20:07. > :20:12.telephone conversations he has refused to meet us. He says he has
:20:12. > :20:20.never been to the UK. So we tracked him down in his name and his former
:20:20. > :20:25.constituency and brought the evidence to show him. Hello, I am
:20:25. > :20:31.from the BBC. We have been given some evidence that suggests you may
:20:31. > :20:37.have traffic develop into the UK in 2006. We brought this evidence to
:20:37. > :20:44.show you. But we would like to get your response to the evidence.
:20:44. > :20:52.have never gone to Britain. It that you? I show in copies of the visa
:20:52. > :20:58.application forms. That is a forgery. Why do you think someone
:20:58. > :21:02.would want to forge your visa? make money. In an attempt to prove
:21:02. > :21:09.the paperwork is a forgery and that he has never been to the UK, he
:21:09. > :21:16.shows me his passport. But inside I find a British visa. It is the one
:21:16. > :21:24.that was issued as a result of what he claims was a forged application.
:21:24. > :21:33.It expired when I did not go there. As one for us what Ireland. I did
:21:33. > :21:39.not go there. This was for America. I did not go there. He seemed to
:21:39. > :21:43.have applied for a lot of these is an knock on. The passport that was
:21:43. > :21:48.used for this these application is the one you have just handed me. It
:21:49. > :21:52.has the same passport number, the same dates, it is everything. That
:21:52. > :21:57.is a photocopy of these passport for this these application. It is
:21:57. > :22:05.not forge. It is a better copy of the past would you have just shown
:22:05. > :22:14.me. And then another astonishing regulation. You know the father of
:22:14. > :22:18.the girl who was traffic? Year is. When I asked him how he knew which
:22:18. > :22:24.particular Del Borello in traffic on his daughter's passport he
:22:24. > :22:28.refused to elaborate. He is now banned from the UK. While there is
:22:28. > :22:33.no evidence that he has traffic children from Uganda into Britain,
:22:33. > :22:37.police sources say that what is certain is that his daughter's
:22:37. > :22:47.passport with a valid British visa has been used for trafficking
:22:47. > :22:50.
:22:50. > :22:53.purposes. With huge financial rewards at stake traffickers are
:22:53. > :23:01.employing ever more sophisticated methods to outmanoeuvre those who
:23:01. > :23:05.try to stop them. The people of Mukono and communities across