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recommend to, modern day slaves...deep. romanian women pretending to be muslims =/

The secret lives of Britain's child beggars

You can see them on London's Oxford Street - day in, day out - young children begging.

For months, Panorama filmed them as they worked the streets during last winter's snow, sleet and rain. The footage - more than 100 hours of it - is like watching Oliver Twist for the 21st Century.

One little girl we followed, who we called "Alice", looked to be no more than four-years-old, yet she was experienced in begging; by turns, innocent, desperate, persistent, wheedling.

The little girl, wearing a white headscarf, used a telephone box as a toilet and scavenged for food from McDonalds as she begged in all weathers.

One restaurant owner in the area said that some child beggars make £500 a day. For her part, Alice handed every last penny to a minder, a young woman who looked to be in her late teens or early 20s.

Outside the Regent's Park Mosque, we filmed a team of women controlling several children, including a little boy of four, who we called "Lou".

They targeted worshippers from the mosque as they left Friday prayers.

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