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A 14-year-old boy lost a legal battle against his parents after they relocated him from London to a boarding school in Ghana.
He claimed in court that his parents had deceived him into traveling to Africa under the pretense of visiting a sick relative.
He stated he would not have agreed to go if he had known the trip’s true purpose was for school enrollment.
Despite his claims, the London High Court heard that his parents were concerned about him being drawn into criminal activities.
They were worried he might be influenced to engage in illegal behavior, so they decided that sending him to a boarding school in Ghana was a safer option for his future.
“I feel like I am living in hell. I really do not think I deserve this and I want to come home, back to England, as soon as possible,” he said in his written statement to the court.
Judge Mr. Justice Hayden of the High Court acknowledged in his ruling that “this is, in many ways, both a sobering and rather depressing conclusion.”
He expressed his satisfaction that the parents’ desire for their kid to relocate to Ghana was “driven by their deep, obvious and unconditional love of one another.”
He warned the boy could be further hurt if he went back to the UK.
The boy’s parents, he wrote, “believe and in my judgement with reason” that their kid has “exhibited an unhealthy interest in knives and at least peripheral involvement with gang culture.”
I did not want my son to be “yet another black teenager stabbed to death in the streets of London,” the boy’s father said to the judge.
The boy, who was born and raised in the UK, claimed that the Ghanaian school “never settled in” and “mocked” him.
He stated that he “could also barely understand what was going on and I would get into fights”.
The child said that he was “so scared and desperate” that he contacted the organization Children and Family Across Borders, which is thought to have connected him with attorneys at the International Family Law Group, and sent an email to the British High Commission in Accra.
“I am from London, England, and I want to go back home,” he wrote.
He said he had been “mistreated” at the school, adding: “I’m begging to go back to my old school.”
But according to the High Court, the boy’s parents sent him because they were concerned about his safety in London.
His mother said that his transfer to Africa was “not a punishment but a measure to protect him” in a statement.
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