BBC Spotlight is told of allegations involving rape and rioting in exchange for reduced debt.
Young people in Northern Ireland are being forced into sex and criminality to pay off drug debts, a BBC Spotlight investigation has been told.
She said many of them are given an address and believe they will be given a deadline to pay the money, or be assaulted.Image caption,Ms O'Connor said she had also worked with children as young as eight who are accessing drugs in schools."Then it goes up into secondary school, but all these dealers will have someone inside all these schools putting drugs out inside them.
Ms O'Connor's 18-year-old son Eamon took his own life in 2018 which she believes was partly due to him owing money to drug dealers.Nichola started a suicide prevention support group after her son Eamon took his own life in 2018 "Boys and young men were involved in very different behaviours than girls and young women. The focus tended to be on sexual activity for the girls."Roy McComb, former senior PSNI detective and former deputy director of the National Crime Agency
"There is a very rich opportunity for these major international crime groups to work within and alongside existing paramilitary structures."Instead of paramilitaries disappearing as we develop the peace process in Northern Ireland, it's simply enabling organised crime to take a deeper root in our country".
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