A con artist in philanthropic clothing, Adam Christopher Whittington— a former soldier in the Australian army and an officer in the British Metropolitan Police— has built a social media profile as a child rescue expert.
In his catalogue of stories, is a miraculous child rescue mission his charity— Project Rescue Children— undertook in The Gambia in 2022, and locating, for arrest in July 2023, of a pedophile on the run that even Gambia police was unable to trace.
The complex investigations and so-called rescue operations were led by a juice bar vendor who doubled as the charity’s Gambia director Ebou Bass. Beautiful stories of brave and expensive recoveries and operations that never happened.
The Republic has uncovered that the controversial founder and CEO of Project Rescue Children has carried out similar fake operations elsewhere, and in some cases used pictures of children with the promise of sponsorship as in the case of The Gambia, to raise thousands of dollars that never reached its beneficiaries.
After staging a fake rescue in 2022, Whittington— a man who trumpets his good relationship with police— obtained an authentic birth certificate and other necessary documents for a child who only existed on his social media handles.
By Mustapha K Darboe
A ‘beautiful miracle’, except it is not
In December, 2022, a supposed intelligence arrived on the desk of Project Rescue Children (PRC) that an unnamed baby was to be trafficked. PRC is a UK-registered charity incorporated in The Gambia in September 2021 as a company limited by guarantee.
The only information they had to go on was the name of an unspecified market in Serrekunda and the day the trafficking was supposed to go down. On December 17, the charity dispatched its team of volunteers. “Like a needle in a haystack situation,” wrote 48-year old Adam Christopher Whittington, the charity’s CEO— recognising the genius of his team.
“We had no idea how old the baby was & we didn’t know the exact exchange point,” said Adam in a post on X, formerly Twitter. The only information Adam’s social media followers know is that this is a “busy market” in Gambia. At 09:25 on the dot, when Gambian markets were at their busiest, this happened.
“One volunteer noticed a basket with a gold coloured drape hanging out, at the entrance about 20 meters away,” wrote Adam. “Immediately 2 males approached the basket with 1 picking it up. Our volunteer, suspicious, called out to the men, who immediately ran & when they got about 10 meters they dropped the basket & fled.”
Adam, the charity’s CEO, and Alexandra Rose Betts— the UK director responsible for raising funds for the charity, would go ahead and adopt the child without any appearance before the Children’s Court, in violation of the Children’s Act. And though Adam is the father, and Rose the mother, the PRC would raise thousands of dollars for the upkeep of the child whose rescue Adam characterised as a “beautiful miracle”.
The truth is that there was no rescue, and the baby being called Mireya is a figment of Adam’s imagination. Through the efforts of their Gambia director, Ebou Bass, the PRC would later find a roleplay for Mireya in Kuloro. This was because the PRC UK director who Adam made the mother of the child was visiting in March 2023.
What is true though is that the birth certificate Mireya was issued was confirmed to be authentic by The Republic. Alexandra Rose Betts, the Director of Fundraising for the charity, was not in The Gambia when Mireya’s birth certificate was produced and she said she did not participate in its production. The charity’s Gambia director who appeared to have fallen out with Adam — Ebou Bass — said the document must have been obtained through fraudulent means.
“It is all Adam’s work,” said Bass, PRC’s Gambia director, speaking to The Republic from Manila, Philippines, where he claimed to have travelled on May 20, 2024. “He is willing to pay money and get everything fixed. He was in The Gambia and he knew how it works in The Gambia… Adam is capable of doing anything.”
The fundraisers set up by the charity on its website and social media accounts are not open for a third party to verify how much was raised. We could not therefore ascertain how much money the PRC raised for the charity’s operations in The Gambia. But based on figures available on their website and social media sites, the charity raised at least $31,083 for its various operations in Gambia. This includes 10 sponsors each contributing £30 for Mireya a month, unspecified number of online donors for Mireya whose donation is not transparent, a $6,125 spent on buying a dark-coloured hyundai santa fe and some 8351 Australian dollars for a Gambian school project. Until the time of this publication, the PRC still had a campaign on its website raising funds for Mireya.
Enter Mireya
It was on the morning of May 24, 2024. A contact — familiar with the child paraded around as Mireya — leads journalists to a house in Kuloro. A few minutes drive into Kuloro, the journalists arrived. A young man looking to be in his late thirties was preparing his donkey cart to head for his farm.
A 17 months old baby — Bintou*, Adam’s Mireya— plays under a mango tree at the centrer of an unfenced compound. Bintou’s mother — 19-year old Fatima* — went to the Brikama Health Center for treatment of a boil which developed on her right breast. The family house— a double-room mud house— is a rusty corrugated roof, with cement blocks spread across its edge, a practice in Gambia to prevent an unforgiving summer wind from throwing off the roof.
“The roof leaks when it rains,” said Sutay*, one of Bintou’s uncles. A reality so far apart from the lives of the PRC leadership whose Gambia director — Ebou Bass — was riding a dark-coloured hyundai santa fe which they claimed to have procured for D415, 000— at least $6,125 in current exchange terms.
As visiting journalists arrived, the local fixer showed them a 17-month old Bintou playing under a mango tree. She looks well, save for three wounds around her left shoulder.
In under 20 minutes, Fatima arrived. Bintou* ran to her mother who cuddled her, and sat on an iron chair under the shade of a mango tree. She is a single mother impregnated at 18 by a young boy who since left for Europe through the back-way and got stuck in Tunisia. Out of school at 8 grade, without any skills or job, Fatima is from a family that struggles for daily bread. Her brothers are subsistence farmers while their dad fends at the Brikama market selling secondhand clothes for daily bread.
Staying with her biological mother, Bintou was never a victim of trafficking as claimed by PRC. While the PRC, in Adam’s story, recovered Mireya on December 17, 2022, Bintou* was born on December 8, 2022. And according to Fatima, the charity started helping her when she was 4 months old — in March 2023 — which is supposed to be her fourth month at the “rescue center”.
“They just told me that they will be sponsoring her. They buy her cornflakes, milk powder and pay her medical bills when she is sick,” she said. “I was told there is a bank account in her name in which they deposit D5000 every month but I have never seen evidence of it.” Fatima’s go-to person was Ebou, also a native of Kuloro.
Bintou’s mother said the monetary value of the total help her daughter received does not exceed D15, 000 in total, though several thousand British pounds were raised in her name and the shelter where she is reportedly being taken care of. And though Ebou, currently in the Philippines, claimed to have fallen out with Adam, he nevertheless called Fatima, ordering her not to speak to journalists after he knew they were visiting.
Finding a fit for the con
Adam is a former soldier in the Australian army and a former officer in the British Metropolitan police. He is no stranger to crime or crime scenes which also means he can invent one. The exact details surrounding Mireya’s story, as it is called in the online con — or Bintou* — as known by her mother— is murky. The first pictures published by Adam on X, formerly Twitter, appeared to have been taken from the official Facebook page of the Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital. Adam only appeared to have rotated the image to a different direction before posting it. But two individuals— Alexandra Rose Betts and Ebou Bass— had taken pictures with “the Mireya”, which we have used to track her.
The identity of Mireya was created on December 17, 2022. The birth certificate registered in Koina was produced for her on January 7, 2023. But Ebou first made contacts with Mireya’s roleplay in Kuloro in March, 2023.
Why? “Adam was like we definitely need a kid to put on the media,” claimed Ebou Bass, in a phone interview from the Philippines. But this did not add up as Mireya was created close to 4 months before her role play was found in Kuloro.
But once the March visit of Betts is fitted into the puzzle, it makes sense. Betts, a British social media influencer with over a hundred thousand followers on Instagram, was Mireya’s adopted mother. She visited the Gambia with Adam in March 2022. Her second visit was in March 2023, months after the ghost, supposedly her daughter, was created.
“I organised my trip for the second time to see the child and take her some clothes and necessities,” said Alexandra Rose Betts. Both Ebou and Adam now had to find a real baby. They chose Bintou, a child born in Kuloro, Ebou’s native village, delivered only nine days earlier than Mireya— the ghost.
To make a successful con for both Alexandra Rose Betts and Fatima to be unaware of what is going on, Ebou makes sure the mother leaves after bringing the child to their house. “I have never seen or met Alex,” said Fatima. “When the sponsors come here, I only dress her and take her to Ebou’s family house. They have never allowed me to stay there with the child.”
Fatima’s absence allows Ebou to make it appear to Betts that Bintou* has no biological mother. Throughout her stay, Betts was staying at a guest house in Serrekunda, an hour drive from Kuloro. “They told me that they were bringing the child from another village some 2 hours drive from Kuloro,” Alexandra Rose Betts told The Republic. But in truth, the distance between Bintou’s house and Ebou’s family house is barely 7 minutes drive.
When Alexandra Rose Betts returned from her second trip, she shared a video and pictures with Mireya. Until that time, the pictures shared by Adam as Mireya were taken from the social media handles of the Bundung Maternal and Child Health Hospital.
Though the unsuspecting Alexandra Rose Betts was unaware of it, exposing the picture of Bintou* or Mireya threatened to expose the con.
On July 6, about 4 months after Alexandra Rose Betts returned and started sharing pictures of Mireya, Adam sent her a 10-year non-disclosure agreement (NDA). The NDA was meant to ensure staff do not divulge any information received during the course of their work. “I’m okay to sign one but would there be a potential for a shorter contract to be put in place that could be revisited and resigned again once it has run out?” asked Alexandra Rose Betts in a text communication seen by The Republic.
Adam snapped: “Sorry, no. All directors have signed without questions. There should be no issues signing unless you have thoughts of sharing confidential information.”
On July 22, Betts received an email containing a series of official complaints against her conduct regarding sharing pictures of Mireya, revealing information online about PRC operations and, among other things, her refusal to sign the NDA.
“… We understand your hesitation to sign our standard Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA)… Until the board convenes, we have decided to remove you from any PRC chat groups that involve private and sensitive discussions and information about PRC and any ongoing work,” said Adam in an email to Alexandra Rose Betts.
Alexandra Rose Betts said after she refused to sign the agreement, she was relieved of her position as the UK director on July 31, with Adam accusing her of taking drugs in the Gambia 4 months prior.
A fake arrest
Though records show much of what PRC claimed is untrue, the organisation that largely exists on paper only, never failed to utilise media and local police in their service. On his X handle, Adam claimed to have “arrested over a dozen Western Pedophiles” and “rescued kids from trafficking and exploitation” in the Gambia, though his X post remains the only evidence of this. The national anti-trafficking agency, NAATIP — responsible for arrest and prosecution of trafficking-related offences — has no information about PRC’s operations in Gambia.
In July 2023 — barely six months after the staged rescue of Mireya, the PRC claimed to have, this time on the request of the Gambia police, tracked down an unnamed pedophile in the wind after reportedly raping an 8-year old and 10-year old in Banjul at different dates.
“Following a routine conversation with Assistant Inspector General (AIG) Bojang, he requested the assistance of the PRC in investigating and apprehending this individual. I accepted the task. The AIG instructed the investigating officer to hand over the case file,” wrote Adam on Facebook.
“3 days later, through the exceptional investigative efforts of PRC operatives, we successfully located the perpetrator in a village near Senegal.” That village, according to information Adam shared with a Gambian journalist whose coverage he sought, is Tambacounda— a town in southern Senegal some 6 hours drive from Banjul.
Adam’s publication online was accompanied with a picture of a man in the official uniform of the Gambian police and two unidentified boys, with one in handcuffs and another in a PRC-branded shirt. The one in a PRC-branded shirt, our sources say, is Ebou Bass, charity’s local director and juice bar operator.
The Republic has learned that Adam and Ebou have first contacted a local journalist working for a Gambian online TV to do this story but have failed to provide verifiable information.
“… I could not proceed with it because I could not verify the information they sent me with the police,” said the journalist. But a local newspaper published it. The author told The Republic all information in the story was supplied by Adam and he could not get the police to verify it prior to publication.
The story claimed one Nicola Mendy, ‘a senior officer’ at Bakoteh police station, arrested the unnamed rapist. The Republic has verified that Mendy, a sergeant at the time, does not fit the description of a ‘senior officer’. The Bakoteh station which the story claims effected the arrest could not trace it in their station diary either.
“Also, the station officer for Bakoteh too could not find details of the said case in the station diary,” the Gambia police said in response to our inquiry.
When contacted, Mendy who they claimed effected the arrest, clarified: “It is not me.” Interestingly though, despite the much publicity of the false arrest— with a picture of an officer adorned in the uniform of Gambia police— enjoyed on a leading Gambia daily, it attracted no reaction from the Gambia police. The former Assistant Inspector General Landing Bojang denied having any personal relationship with Adam.
Though there are pictures of the two in what appears to be in Bojang’s office, the former police officer told The Republic on July 11 that he was introduced to Adam and PRC by the charity’s Gambia director Ebou Bass. Bojang, who Adam claimed requested their assistance in tracking the rapist, denied any knowledge of the case. “For that rapist issue, I have no knowledge about that,” said Bojang. He added that an arrest where the suspect, as is in this case, is across the border in Senegal would have been done in consultation with Interpol.
Meanwhile, on May 24, 2024, Adam claimed on X that the unnamed rapist was sentenced by an unspecified court in Gambia. “Happy to say this piece of garbage has been found guilty. No sentence yet,” claimed Adam. He said the two survivors are being taken care of by their PRC volunteers.
On July 9, The Republic sent questions to PRC and Adam through their official email. An unidentified person replied: “Your email and questions are directed to our CEO who we are confident will show your information is incorrect and or misinformation. Please contact him directly, not through this channel. Unfortunately we cannot give out private contact information to our volunteers.” Meanwhile, Adam — in his usual social media campaign, has shared The Republic’s questions on Facebook and X.
A rescue centre only on paper
There is a dirt pathway, leading to an area called Manjak Kunda in Kuloro, some five miles east of Brikama. In the midst of the new buildings and cashew trees is a mud house covered with a light-blue corrugated roof sitting by a borehole built by PRC.
The compound is unfenced. It is the family house of Ebou Bass, his father, an officer with the Gambia intelligence services — David Bass — confirmed to visiting journalists. A simple observation shows the house was recently refurbished placing a three-course cement block adjusting the length of the building before placing a new roof on top of it.
“It all started with Adam. He made us understand that Project Rescue Children is a new charity organisation and they get few donations. He said we could use my house as a Rescue Center,” said Ebou.
“I told him I can discuss it with my family… My family has not received any payment from Adam or the PRC. They are just willing to help the kids.” David— Ebou’s father who owned the house— said “the work they did here was borehole and roof”.
David said there was no child sleeping or residing at his house other than his family. Children from the neighbourhood, according to him, do gather at their house when Adam and his volunteers visit. “When they are here, the children from the surrounding villages will come here,” said David, “we cook for them. They play games. It is always a very nice day if they (Adam and team) are here.” He said Adam told him that they will build a rescue centre at a small plot, measuring about 12 by 10 metres behind his house.
On paper though, his current house is a rescue centre — meant to host trafficked victims — for which PRC raised thousands of dollars to “rebuild”. It is also where Baby Mireya supposedly lives. Gambia has one state-sponsored shelter for children located in Bakoteh where trafficked victims and minors found without guardians are taken for temporary stay.
Not only is the National Agency Against Trafficking in Person (NAATIP) not aware of Baby Mireya’s miraculous rescue, they have no idea a ‘rescue center’ exists in Gambia where trafficked victims are supposedly taken for rehabilitation.
The Agency was established by the Trafficking in Persons Act 2007 with the mandate to deal with trafficking in persons matters including rescue and rehabilitation.
“Since there is an institution set up for this purpose, it is reasonable for all parties to ensure that any case on TIP is referred to the Agency for appropriate action as soon as possible,” said NAATIP in an email response, promising to open a formal investigation into the case.
Though a picture of the house when it was being built is online, the actual location was never disclosed to the donors. And Adam intends to keep it that way. “For safety and privacy, we don’t give addresses to any PRC centres,” said Adam.
The communication on the WhatsApp group created to coordinate support for Mireya shows monies raised for her were being sent to various contacts in Farafenni and Jalamba near Brikama.
Brave child workshop?
The PRC has an MoU with the Ministry of Basic and Secondary Education in May 2023. Though the policy of the Ministry requires the charity to have a physical office, the PRC does not have one though it claimed, on paper, to be at Sayer Jobe Avenue in London Corner.
“They are supposed to file an activity report with us one year after the signing of the MoU,” said Musa Sarr, the director of the unit responsible for the MOUs. The MOU clocked one year in May this year but the PRC is yet to share its activity report.
In May 2024, the organisation claimed its “‘be brave’ child safety workshops were in Gambian school curriculum”. The Republic has verified the PRC did a number of school visits which took between 45 minutes and an hour where its volunteers distributed footballs and spoke to children about “dangers of social media”. And though the MoU allowed these school visits, there is no “BE BRAVE child safety workshop” in Gambian school curriculum.
Yusupha Njie, a vice principal of Wellingaraba Basic Cycle School that wrote an attestation for PRC, said the charity visited his school to talk to children about dangers of social media. The meeting, he said, took about an hour.
In a publication about its ongoing school visits, the PRC claimed its efforts are being complemented by a formal partnership it has with Gambian institutions including the immigration, police and Gambia Tourism Board. On June 10, the spokesperson of GT Board — Musa Dem — confirmed to The Republic they have no partnership with the organisation. The Gambia Immigration Department also clarified that it does not have a partnership with the charity.
“We held meetings back in 2022 but the meetings were not conclusive which was the reason why we did not issue acceptance letters which the organisation requested,” said Inspector Muhammad Bah, the deputy spokesperson of the Gambia Immigration.
Meanwhile, the charity is raising money on its website purportedly to build a school at a certain village whose name it has not revealed in their post. The charity claimed to have so far raised $8,291 Australian dollars.
Illegal operations, adoption without due process
Though Gambia is considered a child sex destination, with widespread stories of child labour and exploitation, the implementations of regulatory frameworks and laws governing children’s affairs are very weak.
In 2020, the Ministry of Children closed down the Penny Appeal — a British-registered charity — after allegations surfaced that several children were abused at the charity’s facility in Bijilo. It was only after the scandal — and after six years of operations in the Gambia — the Department of Social Welfare and Ministry of Children became aware they were not properly registered.
Lamin Fatty, the executive director of the Child Protection Alliance, said the Department is weak in implementing laws around registration and operations of child care facilities in the country. Fatty said the majority of child care facilities in the country are not registered.
Section 198 of the Children’s Act makes it mandatory for all institutions operating a child care facility to register with the Department of Social Welfare, a clause which has been flouted by Project Rescue Children Foundation since its registration in September 2021.
The Department of Social Welfare has confirmed the charity is neither registered, nor do they have a memorandum of understanding with them.
“I have never heard the name of this organization. I am also not aware of the Ministry having any MoU with this organization,” Jankoba Jabbi, the director of the Department of Social Welfare told The Republic.
The conditions for adoption in the Gambia are set out under section 111 of the Children’s Act. Whereas the law requires the adopted child to be fostered by the parents for at least thirty-six months, the date of the recovery of Mireya to the time Adam produced her birth certificate with him as her father is 21 days.
The adoption can only be approved by a Children’s Court and Social Welfare Officer from the Department of Social Welfare “shall be required to submit a report to assist the Court in considering the application”. Mireya’s adoption neither appears in court, nor was the Department of Social Welfare aware of it.
“I thought she (Mireya) was going to be adopted by a Gambian woman. Until he sent me a certificate with my name on it without me knowing and without my consent or signature,” said Betts.
The cost of speaking against Adam
There were at least 5 former volunteers of the charity who have turned whistleblowers. But Adam never failed to raise the cost for anyone who speaks against him. All of them, including journalists investigating PRC have a story to tell about how Adam attacks them online or through direct messaging, calling them “idiots”, “clowns” with threat of defamation lawsuits.
On his X and Facebook handles, Adam claimed Alexandra Rose Betts was wanted by the Gambia police on a number of infractions including possession of “illegal drugs”. “We are now able to confirm that Alex Betts, after being removed from PRC for numerous concerning reasons including use of illegal drugs inside Gambia, is now wanted by the Gambian police for multiple infractions,” wrote Adam.
Adam — who claims to have a good working relationship with former interior minister Seyaka Sonko and retired Assistant Inspector General of Police — managed to have a video recording of Bojang claiming the police have received a complaint that Betts deals in drugs.
“This Alex Rose Betts, she is part of your organisation. There is this information she deals in drugs… If she is found or caught with it, the penalty will be very serious,” said retired officer Bojang. Bojang was recorded with what appears to be a mobile phone holding a paper on which he appeared to have the details of complaint against Betts, issuing a warning. In May, the Gambia police replied to our questions regarding Alexandra Rose Betts. “After consulting with relevant units and authorities, we have no record of her (Alexandra Rose Betts) being wanted by The Gambia Police Force,” said the police.
And contrary to Adam’s claims, the former interior minister Sonko said he had no contact with Adam or PRC, nor was he aware of the story of Betts.
“I can state with all certainty that I did not authorise such an investigation. I will wait to hear more but this smells like someone bluffing,” said former minister Sonko.
On July 11, Bojang confirmed to The Republic on a phone call that there was no formal complaint against Betts or any evidence of drug use against her. He, however, claimed he was unaware he was being recorded on a video which was used by Adam to threaten Alexandra Rose Betts.
“… She (Alex) is not wanted and there was no formal complaint. When Ebou Bass met me, he said she is abusing drugs, I said we are not going to accept that from her… I made it clear that if that is what she is doing, she should stop it,” claimed Bojang. But Betts said the fear of arrest prevented her from visiting Gambia.
“I had fears that when I came to the Gambia, he (Adam) could pay the police to arrest me and accuse me of dealing in drugs,” said Betts.
Same story elsewhere
Whittington, an Australian by birth, holds citizenship in the United Kingdom and Sweden. His primary residence is in Sweden where he shares custody of his two Swedish children. His social media accounts show he spends time in Russia where he has two children with a girlfriend.
The available records show that the PRC started operations in the UK in 2015 where the company has been dissolved at least two times for alleged lack of financial reporting, barely 2 years before Adam opened another branch in Australia in 2017. Since then, its operations sprang up in the Philippines — where it claims to be headquartered — Kenya, Ukraine and The Gambia.
The story of fake operations is not peculiar to Gambia. In 2020, the Kenyan police opened an inquiry into PRC after the charity claimed to have been involved in an operation that freed at least 96 children who are victims of child trafficking and sexual exploitation. The inquiry found that, as it is with the case of David’s residence being used as a rescue centre in the Gambia, Adam renovated a house of an old lady he is sharing as a rescue centre which did not have any child residents.
“… The only children they have been able to reach out to are the children from the needy neighbourhood, approximately 20 children whom they always call for a photo session to share with Adam — PRC for updates,” said the investigators. “This is exactly what has been happening, not as it is being enumerated on the website that they have been able to rescue 96 children who are victims of child trafficking and sexual exploitation”
The story does not seem to be different in the Philippines. On May 20, Ebou — PRC’s Gambia director — claimed to have been in Manila when he spoke to The Republic. He said Adam is running another fake operation in the Southeast Asian country.
“I have been to the Philippines. While I was there, I stayed at our rescue centre. I can explain from A to Z what he is doing in the Philippines,” said Ebou.
“I see everything. I get all evidence whereby he was on a fake operation while he was receiving money and going to the restaurant, massage centers.”
The Republic was not able to get hold of Ebou on the phone again. However, another contact in the Philippines familiar with the operations of PRC, but did not want to be named, said he is running fake operations. A picture shared with The Republic shows the charity is at a single stall room with ash-coloured door at the bottom floor of a one storey house in Camiling, a city in Tarlac, about 3 hours drive from Manila.
Meanwhile, the PRC is not registered in Uganda, according to Ssembatya Alex, the CEO of Make a Child Smile — a local charity that partnered and conducted two rescue operations — in November 2022 in Uganda, and June 2023 in Kenya— with PRC. The PRC then raised funds out of which it sent $68,000 to Ssembatya to support their ongoing work building a rescue centre. Ssembatya and Adam fell out in March 2024 after, according to him, he claimed 50% ownership rights in both the building of the rescue centre and its lands.
“All the cases he’s claiming to have done in Uganda are false, he’s only been getting content from journalists and police officers and putting them on his social media just to get donations…,” Alex told The Republic.
It appears it was not only in Gambia where Adam relied on stories of fake or real operations not connected to himself or his charity to raise funds. In one of his WhatsApp chats with his Ugandan partner seen by The Republic, he asked for media content to raise funds.
“… The more bad things… to show the world the more funding and donations we can get to you,” wrote Adam, in October 2022. “… The more horrible details we show the ignorant Western World, the more we can get them to help.”
We made attempts to reach Lamin Fatty, the director of the Birth and Death Registry under the Ministry of Health but not only did he refuse to clarify whether or not Mireya’s birth certificate was authentic — when The Republic authenticated it through other sources, he refused to comment on how it was possible for someone to obtain a birth certificate for a child who does not exist. He claimed he would only reveal such information before the court. We attempted to get back to Ebou Bass for further verification but the number he called us with from the Philippines was not going through. His family also claims they have lost contact with him.
*The names of the children and their parents as well as other identifiable details have been changed in line with the law and ethics of reporting on children’s issues.
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