Begging and Petty Crime
People who have been trafficked for the purpose of begging or committing petty crimes may:
- Be children, elderly persons or disabled migrants who tend to beg in public places and on transport
- Be children carrying and/or selling illicit drugs
- Have physical impairments that appear to be result of mutilation
- Be children of the same nationality or ethnicity who move in large groups with only a few adults
- Be unaccompanied minors who have been ‘found’ by an adult of the same nationality or ethnicity
- Move in groups while travelling on public transport: for example, they may walk up and down the length of trains
- Participate in the activates of organized criminal gangs
- Be part of large groups of children who have the same adult guardian
- Be punished if they do not collect or steal enough
- Live with members of their gang
- Travel with members of their gang to the country of destination
- Live, as gang members, with adults who are not their parents
- Move daily in large groups and over considerable distances.
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