BITTER TASTE Shocking abuse behind your cup of tea with kids as young as 10 picking leaves for 20p a day and women beaten and raped Investigation Updated: Apr 3 2021, 10:30 ET Invalid Date, WHEN tea picker Grace* refused to have sex with her manager three times, she thought the worst repercussion was going to be having her wages docked. But horrifyingly a few weeks later, in March 2019, she says he followed her to a remote part of the Malawi plantation where he threw her to the ground and raped her. 15 Women on the Lejuri tea estates claim they are sexually assaulted by supervisorsCredit: Alamy