key to getting kids off county lines is understanding how and why they re recruited in the first place. for nicole, it was a yearning for something different an escape from a chaotic home life, from poverty and hunger. you d get offered absolutely everything. i was offered they were going to buy me a new bed, they were going to get me some clothes to take home. they were going to help my mam with the bills. they were absolutely great. they were my lifesavers at the time. and just never worked out. never we never got to that point of us having a bed. never got to that point of us having new clothes. i think at the point i realised i wasn t going to get anything, it was too late. i was already well and truly in it and doing it, and there was no choice in it there was no. i can decide when i was going to do it or where i was going to do it. it was, they would tell me and i was doing it. i wasn t doing it,
whether you live or die. the gangs promise so much. they deliver pain and misery. just ask nicole. there s not words for them. i don t wish. i couldn t think of anything worse i ll wish on them people to be fair, because it s so self centred of them to know that they re young, naive kids that don t genuinely, at that age, don t know any better. i still, to this day, don t understand how an 11 year old girl got on the trains unnoticed, and not seen, not found, not asked why i wasn t at school, not asked why i wasn t with a mam or a dad or anything like that which is a shame, and i think that is now what mostly affects me day to day, is why someone didn t step in any sooner than what was necessary. there will be young people who might catch this on their phones, might see it on the telly, who are living scared right now. what would you say to those kids?
an escape from a chaotic home life, from poverty and hunger. you d get offered absolutely everything. i was offered they were going to buy me a new bed, they were going to get me some clothes to take home. they were going to help my mam with the bills. they were absolutely great. they were my lifesavers at the time. and just never worked out. never we never got to that point of us having a bed. never got to that point of us having new clothes. i think at the point i realised i wasn t going to get anything, it was too late. i was already well and truly in it and doing it, and there was no choice in it there was no. i can decide when i was going to do it or where i was going to do it. it was, they would tell me and i was doing it. i wasn t doing it, i would pay for it and i would know about it. i think ijust gave in after a while. i was so naive. ididn t. it was, yes, yes, yes, 0k. and if they told me, get on my knees, i was on my knees. and that was the situation i went with. se
i couldn t think of anything worse i ll wish on them people to be fair, because it s so self centred of them to know that they re young, naive kids that don t genuinely, at that age, don t know any better. i still, to this day, don t understand how an 11 year old girl got on the trains unnoticed, and not seen, not found, not asked why i wasn t at school, not asked why i wasn t with a mam or a dad or anything like that which is a shame, and i think that is now what mostly affects me day to day, is why someone didn t step in any sooner than what was necessary. there will be young people who might catch this on their phones, might see it on the telly, who are living scared right now. what would you say to those kids? i couldn t stress to people enough that they need to take that. it doesn t matter how scared you are. you are valid, your feelings are valid, you are never that stuck. if you are still
key to getting kids off county lines is understanding how and why they re recruited in the first place. for nicole, it was a yearning for something different an escape from a chaotic home life, from poverty and hunger. you d get offered absolutely everything. i was offered they were going to buy me a new bed, they were going to get me some clothes to take home. they were going to help my mam with the bills. they were absolutely great. they were my lifesavers at the time. and just never worked out. never we never got to that point of us having a bed. never got to that point of us having new clothes. i think at the point i realised i wasn t going to get anything, it was too late. i was already well and truly in it and doing it, and there was no choice in it there was no. i can decide when i was going to do it or where i was going to do it. it was, they would tell me and i was doing it. i wasn t doing it, i would pay for it and i would know about it.