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Four children have contacted the authorities after their parents showed them Islamic State beheading videos. According to court documents, the Midlands children were taken out of school and were being "socially isolated."
Details of the alleged "physical and emotional abuse" were heard in the High Court last week,
leaving one of the children, a 10-year-old boy who suffers with learning difficulties, so traumatized he can no longer speak.
The children - three boys aged 10, 14 and 16, and the daughter, 18, all of Somali origin - alerted authorities and are now in foster care. Police intervened after the daughter emailed Childline. The 18-year-old told authorities that
the children were being "kept at home, did not attend school and were kept socially isolated." Police then subsequently traced the email to the family's home.
According to court documents, the children were only let out of the house once every three weeks. "The children have complained that
their parents expressed support for extremist violence and have expressed anti-Semitic, anti-British, homophobic and anti-white views in the home, which the children reject," the High Court judgment says.
Justice Alison Russell ruled last week that the youngest child should move to residential care.
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