‘There have been times we’ve felt scared in our home’ There’s one harrowing memory that sticks in Michael White’s mind. It was a cold winter’s evening, when his 15-year-old son walked through the door after spending the night with ‘friends.’ The teenager, he remembers, ‘looked like a ghost’. ‘Something horrible had clearly happened to him,’ Michael* recalls Since that day, his son, George* has tested positive for Hepatitis A.
To view this video please enable JavaScript, and consider upgrading to a web browser that supports HTML5 video Up Next But Johnny thinks change is on the horizon, as awareness about online grooming and County Lines gangs improves. ‘The reason I’d say the issue of drug crime among children is an epidemic is because there are better systems in place now to recognise the victims of exploitation.