BBC: Mo Farah says he was illegally trafficked to the UK as a child
Zahid Mahmood for CNN reports that long distance running legend Mo Farah has told the BBC that he was trafficked into the United Kingdom as a child and forced to work as a domestic servant. Check out the BBC story for details.
The four-time Olympic gold medalist was either eight or nine years old when he was flown to the UK by a woman he had never met previously. He then was forced to “do housework and childcare.”
A new documentary by the British broadcaster set to air this week tells the story of the man known as Mo Farah. In the documentary, Farah says that his birth name is Hussein Abdi Kahin and that he was born in Somaliland. Somaliland declared independence from Somalia in 1991 but is not recognized as a sovereign state.
“Despite what I said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK,” Farah told the BBC. He says that the family was “torn apart” after his father was killed in the civil war when he was four years old.
“I was separated from my mother and I was brought into the UK illegally under the name of another child called Mohamed Farah,” he said in.
Mo Farah truly is a running legend. In 2012, he won Olympic gold in both the men’s 5,000m and 10,000m in London. Four years later in Rio, he again won gold in both events.
KJ
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