The Witchdoctors' Children Our World

investigate ritual child sacrifice. Some viewers may find the content

on this programme disturbing. Traditional African witch doctors,

also known as spiritual healers, are believed to have special powers.

From Giles could they learn to brute power for potions and Jimmy

Kate with the spirits of the natural world. -- brute power for

potions. They believe they can banish evil. Their practice is

known as juju. It involves the use of praise, herds and animal

sacrifice. As Uganda's new elite obtain wealth and power, an ancient

practice has re-emerged, leading to the deaths of hundreds of children.

We expose the witch doctors who are offered child sacrifice. -- who

offer child sacrifice. We uncover the traffickers who abduct children

to meet the demand from which doctors in Africa and abroad. In

the UK, which doctors are using human blood for what they say are

powerful rituals. What we have seen on the scan explains... He did

suffer brain damage. There is not much we can do. They call him the

miracle child, a machete was sliced 3 Alan's head and neck in an

attempt to be -- be heard him. The work of which doctors attempting

child sacrifice. His mutilated body was found near his village home. He

had also been castrated. It was mum -- one month before he woke from a

coma. Doctors are surprised he survived. He will need a lifetime

of emotional and physical therapy. It is quite shocking to think...

This is an innocent young child. Alan's story is unusual in Uganda,

but only because he survived. Human sacrifice, believed to bring wealth

and good health, was rare in Uganda until around three years ago, when

it re-emerged, coinciding with a boom in the economy. A government

report released last year claims that 9,000 children have gone

missing since 2007. Many are thought to have been trafficked for

juju rituals, including child sacrifice. It is widely believed

that some members of the new elite are paying which doctors vast sums

of money for an ancient practice. The wealthy do not sacrifice their

own children. We are heading to the villages and farming communities

that surround Kampala. They McKone a district has the highest rate of

child sacrifice cases in the country. It is a familiar story. As

news reached the village that three young children had been sacrificed,

parents ran to where the bodies had been found. Fearing it was there a

child. Both of her children had been murdered. The same day, the

local witch doctor also sacrificed his own child. Later, he was

convicted of all four murders. I am told that justice is rare and slow.

This is where you found the body? Elsewhere, Tepenensi found the body

of her six-year-old grandson, Stephen. He had been missing for 24

hours. The local witch doctor admitted to sacrificing Stephen.

Tepenensi said the police did not want to investigate. Tepenensi

tells me that she turned down the offer of what the police described

as compensation for Stephen's murder. Alan's father has sold his

home to pay for his son's medical treatment and moved to the slums of

Mukono. They are still waiting for justice. In 2009 the government

lost a child sacrifice Police Task Force. Families of victims current

-- claim of corruption, slay investigation and lethargic courts.

The men Allen claims kidnap team lived in this community. They

continue to take children to sacrifice them. Posing as

businessmen, we asked around for a local witch doctor that could bring

prosperity to our Uganda and construction company. We were

introduced to this man, Awali. During the first meeting, Awali

sacrificed a goat to bring luck to the business. A few days later, we

were invited back to his shrine, to discuss what he says is the most

powerful spell, the sacrifice of a child. There are two ways of doing

it. The whole head is cut off totally... He explains how he and

his brother find children to sacrifice. Awali claims he has

sacrificed children before. Is the same which Dr that tried to kill

Alan? Do you recognise this man? Is he one of the men who took you?

Yes? The police have told us that this case were not go to trial

because the only evidence is Alan's eyewitness account, which is not

enough to secure a conviction. Just how prevalent is child sacrifice in

Uganda? No-one from the government accepted our invitation to be

interviewed. However, the issue is played down. The police cite

statistics of 30 a definite cases since 2006. Most of these were from

Mukono. This figure is based only on conclusive investigations. Last

year, 900 reported cases of child sacrifice were awaiting

investigation by the Police Task Force. The Police Commissioner

vehemently denies allegations of corruption, planning a lack of

resources to investigate. If we get information that someone is

involved in criminal activities, like a human sacrifice. We shall go

and investigate. If we prove the case we shall take them to court.

Sometimes the cases, they are not proven. Alan and his father attend

Mass here every Sunday. This church community looks to each other for

understanding and support. Over the last year more children have been

abducted from this parish than the official number for the entire

country. We wake up with shocking news. The main thing is abducted

children. The biggest number is sacrifice. These children are

exchanged for money. It is brutality and human circumstances.

A report by a Jubilee Campaign claims many of the men offer a rich

man child sacrifice are actually criminal. -- criminals, posing as

witch doctors. This campaign is calling on the government to

regulate which doctors. The children have no voices. Their

voices have been silenced by the law. The police and not acting.

People read the newspapers and to nothing. We will do whatever it

takes to fight this evil. Will they listen? We pray that they will.

Local witch doctors are not responsible for every child that

goes missing in communities like this one. Victims are found as far

away as the UK. According to a recent US government report on

global trafficking, Uganda has emerged as one of the main source

countries for traffickers. Seeking children to take to Europe for use

in witchcraft rituals and other forms of exploitation. The Ugandan

government has made a minimum effort to tackle the problem. How

easy is it to buy a child in Uganda? Posing as traffickers

wanting children to smuggle into the UK, we had our first meeting

lined up within days. Hello. This is Chris. I have heard a very good

things about you. We tracked down a man, a notorious in Uganda's

underworld as he -- prolific charge trafficker. 100 children? I have so

many. I have a new work in Uganda. That is the man who claims to head

a network across Uganda who kidnaps children to provide them for using

witchcraft and other forms of exploitation. He insisted we meet

at an isolated hotel 250 miles from the capital. He claims to have been

selling children for use by witchdoctors in Uganda and abroad

for over 20 years. He boasts how it is done. He explains that means to

work DUP to child, his preferred method. A second meeting and he is

keen to be in work. One question. When he abducts them. Are we sure

they will not be any police involvement? I don't want any

police. Snows, OK. He demanded a fee of $15,000 per child. After

this meeting we withdrew from negotiations. Britain has emerged

as one of the main detonation countries for children trafficked

from Africa. Little is known about her there are traffic in but a

sinister picture is emerging of why. Evidence of child sacrifice in the

UK first emerged ten years ago when the torso of a young Nigerian boy

was discovered on the banks of the River Thames. There have been other

cases but the murder of children for sacrificial rituals remains we

in this country. We have discovered that over the last four years

nearly 400 children trafficked to Britain have been rescued by police

agencies. Many them have been abused by witchdoctors. Some agreed

to share their experiences with us. Still appearing there are abuses,

actors have impersonated there was us. The witchdoctors take your here

and cut your arms, legs, he and genitals and click the blood. They

say that even you speak up, I can kill you. He was evil and make that

things happen. I believed it. Now this is my punishment. I was very

scared of the witchcraft and what would happen to me. I asked God to

protect me. I knew his power was stronger than this. The witch

doctor told me he could use my head. Sometimes there would wake up and

he would be standing at any. Every night I was terrified that a would

not wake up like the next day. Testimony from rescued victims

provides an insight into the criminal industry that supplies an

increasing number of children for use in GQ rituals in Britain.

experience shows that the traffickers can be anyone.

Witchdoctors, or traditional spiritual healers, a growing in

popularity in Britain particularly within African Guinea Nitties. But

many advertisements for witchdoctors in the mainstream

press are in that people from all backgrounds. For around �350

witchdoctors offer what they say are live changing rituals involving

career and herds. But as we discovered there are some we engage

in more sinister practices. Posing as a married couple with financial

problems we had consultations with 10 witchdoctors. All of them up at

the Oval potions and animal sacrifice to bring as well. But two

of them also offered as a ritual involving the use of human but,

which is illegal. I have it. I have played. He had a bottle of blood or

ready-prepared. He instructed us to release the smell of the blood into

out the home. Not take its nil. Very bad. Just a little. He claims

he was born with his healing powers, helping clients because Europe and

Africa. -- across Europe and Africa. Forensic tests revealed the bottle

did contain human blood as well as excrement and chemicals. There is

name evidence is that it was extracted from anyone against their

will. We have been investigating one particular case. That of a 13-

year-old Ugandan girl traffic to Britain. She was abused in Juju

rituals. She was also sexually exploited. She is now say, living

under the protection of social services. Police efforts to track

down her traffickers and abuses have not resulted in any arrests.

We have obtained UK Border Agency files which showed that in December

2006 the 13-year-old Ugandan girl and to the UK on a Ugandan passport

with a ballad British visa. The passport she travelled on belonged

to a 21-year-old woman his father is Haruuna Ssalabaya, at that time

a senior minister in the Ugandan government. British visas were

issued to him and his. It to attend a conference at the houses of

Parliament in London. The files on them that the fingerprints of the

person who travelled on his. A's passport out the same as those of

the trafficked girl. -- on his daughter's passport. When

interviewed by British police, he tell them that he and his daughter

were victims of forgery. They had never applied for British visas.

Now backing Uganda we went in search of Haruuna Ssalabaya for our

and inquiries. He lost his seat in elections last February. In several

telephone conversations he has refused to meet us. He says he has

never been to the UK. So we tracked him down in his name and his former

constituency and brought the evidence to show him. Hello, I am

from the BBC. We have been given some evidence that suggests you may

have traffic develop into the UK in 2006. We brought this evidence to

show you. But we would like to get your response to the evidence.

have never gone to Britain. It that you? I show in copies of the visa

application forms. That is a forgery. Why do you think someone

would want to forge your visa? make money. In an attempt to prove

the paperwork is a forgery and that he has never been to the UK, he

shows me his passport. But inside I find a British visa. It is the one

that was issued as a result of what he claims was a forged application.

It expired when I did not go there. As one for us what Ireland. I did

not go there. This was for America. I did not go there. He seemed to

have applied for a lot of these is an knock on. The passport that was

used for this these application is the one you have just handed me. It

has the same passport number, the same dates, it is everything. That

is a photocopy of these passport for this these application. It is

not forge. It is a better copy of the past would you have just shown

me. And then another astonishing regulation. You know the father of

the girl who was traffic? Year is. When I asked him how he knew which

particular Del Borello in traffic on his daughter's passport he

refused to elaborate. He is now banned from the UK. While there is

no evidence that he has traffic children from Uganda into Britain,

police sources say that what is certain is that his daughter's

passport with a valid British visa has been used for trafficking

purposes. With huge financial rewards at stake traffickers are

employing ever more sophisticated methods to outmanoeuvre those who

try to stop them. The people of Mukono and communities across