14-year-old boy loses court case against parents after they ‘tricked him’ into traveling from London to Ghana

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After his parents relocated him from London to Ghana for boarding school, a 14-year-old child filed a lawsuit against them, but he lost. The youngster said that his parents had deceived him into traveling to Africa under the pretense of visiting a sick aunt.

He claimed that “there would have been no way I would have agreed to it” if he had been aware that he was going to a boarding school.

His parents also testified in London’s High Court, expressing concern that he was being “groomed” into criminal action.

The boy, who was born and raised in the UK, claimed that the Ghanaian school “never settled in” and “mocked” him.

He added: “I’m begging to go back to my old school.” He claimed to have been “mistreated” at the school.

The 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 child to relocate to Ghana was “driven by their deep, obvious and unconditional love.”

He warned the boy could be worsened if he went back to the UK.

According to him, the boy’s parents think “and in my judgement with reason” that their son possesses “at very least peripheral involvement with gang culture and has exhibited an unhealthy interest in knives”.

The judge was informed by the boy’s father that the couple do not wish for their son to be “yet another black teenager st@bbed to d3ath in the streets of London.”

The boy’s parents sent him because they were concerned about his safety in London, the High Court heard.

His mother said that his transfer to Africa was “not a punishment but a measure to protect him” in a statement.

She was referring to the killing of 14-year-old Kelyan Bokassa, who was killed in January while on a bus in Woolwich. ‘’That was every parent’s worst nightmare”, she said.

She stated that she did not want to be involved in her son’s “destruction” and did not think he would live in the UK.

The boy satisfied 11 of the criteria on a checklist created by the children’s charity NSPCC to determine whether a child may have joined a gang or was being used illegally, according to Rebecca Foulkes, the attorney for the boy’s father.

This included carrying weapons, purchasing new items, possessing money that couldn’t be explained, and skipping school.

According to his school, it had “suspicions about him engaging in criminal activities” after noticing him using cell phones and wearing pricey clothing.

According to the boy, he had never been part of a gang, nor “involved in gangs in any way”. He said he “does not know anyone involved in a gang” and he does not carry a knife.

In his remarks, he admitted that “my behaviour wasn’t the best” and expressed his belief that his parents had sent him to Africa for that reason.

His parents stated in a statement following the verdict: “This has been a really difficult time for us all.”

Our priority has always been protecting our son and our focus now is on moving forward as a family.”

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