Mo Farah says he was victim of child trafficking
STORY: “Most people know me as Mo Farah but it's not my name, it's not the reality.”
Mo Farah says he was
a victim of child trafficking
The Olympic star told the BBC
he was brought to the UK
from Djibouti at the age of nine
and forced to work
as a domestic servant
“The real story is, I was born in Somaliland, north of Somalia as Hussein Abdi Kahin. Despite what I've said in the past, my parents never lived in the UK. When I was four, my dad was killed in a civil war - you know, as a family we were torn apart. I was separated from my mother and I was brought into the UK illegally, under the name of another child called Mohammed Farah.”
He wasn't allowed to
contact his family
or attend school until he was 12
"Often I would just lock myself in the bathroom and cry and nobody is there to help so after a while, I just learned not to have that emotion."
A teacher contacted social services
and helped him find a foster family
He was able to reconnect
with his mom years later
