LONDON, June 16 (UPI) -- London's Metropolitan Police is investigating claims that African and Asian children are being smuggled into Britain to be used as human sacrifices.
In a report leaked to the BBC, contributors to a 10-month-long investigation said apart from sacrificial purposes, youngsters were also being smuggled into Britain as domestic slaves and for men with HIV who believed if they had sex with a child they would be cleansed.
The report said people who are desperate seek out churches to cast spells for them.
"Members of the workshop said for spells to be powerful it required a sacrifice of a male child unblemished by circumcision," the report said.
The study follows the case this year of a girl tortured by her guardians in London for being a witch, where three Angolan nationals, including the girl's aunt, were convicted of trying to "beat the devil out of" the un-named 10-year-old.
